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Version 3 of Blackmagic’s Media Express software, which is included, has now been upgraded to handle both interleaved and full-resolution dual-stream 3D to ensure compatibility with current NLEs that won’t support full-resolution stereo imagery. What’s more, the new hardware architecture supports 10-bit up-/down-/cross-conversions.
May declined to discuss the company’s sales expectations, but said demand has been reliably strong for more widespread use of mobile workstations. “It’s no surprise people have been looking for mobile solutions, but there always had to be some kind of sacrifice,” he says. “Maybe I have to use a proprietary codec, or I can monitor but not capture. There was always an asterisk. But being able to have 10 Gb per second in multiple directions? That’s quite a doorway for information to get through.”
Blackmagic is “actively engaging” in figuring out where else Thunderbolt fits into its product lines, but May says it’s hard to tell which products will be brought to market first. “As always, the company is driven by customer feedback and demands,” he says. “It’s always hard – we come to NAB with 20 new product announcements and we think they’re all compelling, but you never really know until you put them out in public.” In other words, Blackmagic is unlikely to make its next move until it hears back from Thunderbolt’s earliest adopters.
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