The CineForm RT engine for CS4 is well behind our originally-anticipated schedule.  We want to use this blog post to give you an update.

Why The Delay? The primary cause for the delay is that Adobe changed many things in CS4 which caused us to have to rewrite major pieces of the engine.  We have made quite a bit of progress, and you are soon to begin seeing new features roll out as we release the engine incrementally.

So What Have We Been Doing? Our first focus was to complete the importer and exporter, which, as their names imply, are the major software components by which formats are imported into or exported out of CS4.  These components are in good shape now and have been shipping for quite a while so we have turned our focus to the RT engine. 

Real-Time Engine Rollout: Beginning within the next 2-3 weeks you will see us rolling out new versions of Prospect HD/4K that incrementally add features, each a few weeks apart.  Expect to see the Prospect RT engine rollout with the feature additions mentioned below.  Dates are estimates and may change.

o  CineForm project presets (Sep 18). This eliminates use of the desktop mode and also eliminates the need to use MPEG as a render-to format for previews.

o  CineForm (Real Time) Play Module first release (Oct 23). This is the underpinning of the RT engine.  The first release will not support HD-SDI monitoring. UPDATE: we have pushed this date back to sometime in the middle of December due to the fact that our engineering focus shifted to developing Prospect 3D for a time. Now that Prospect 3D is done, we our returning our efforts to the Play Module and  RT engine.

o  Full RT engine with HD-SDI support (Nov 6) UPDATE: we have pushed this date back to sometime in the middle of December due to the fact that our engineering focus shifted to developing Prospect 3D for a time. Now that Prospect 3D is done, we our returning our efforts to the Play Module and  RT engine.

As a reminder, all of the new features within Prospect HD/4K v4, including First Light plus new format conversion options, are compatible with CS3.  And the CineForm RT engine for CS3 remains in Prospect HD/4K v4.

We know the lengthy time it has taken us to get the RT engine for CS4 in a form ready-to-ship has been trying for many of our customers, and actually – it has been trying for us too.  But we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel – bear with us for a little bit longer….

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