C1 5.1 Released Today
Hey Gang, I’m on set, but just noticed that there is a new C1 5.1 out, and from the looks of the release notes, there could be some very good things in this one. Biggest thing I’m looking for is speed, which they say is addressed, as well as doing crop ratios direct in the crop tool instead of the process recipe. More to come but gotta go. -z
One of the things I was most interested in and excited for was the ability for the majority of Leaf backs to shoot tethered. I hooked up an Aptus 75 mounted to an RZ Pro II and it shot no problem. If you over shot it would corrupt and you would have to restart the software, but other wise seemed smooth. Granted I had about a half hour to do this in so no extended testing on it, more to come soon. The file did process out super fast and held up with file tweaks upon quick inspection. I did not, however, compare against processing quality through Leaf. I need to set up a real controlled test for that with strobe. Soon.
One improvement that was not listed is that connection to files via AFP seems to be greatly improved. Any of you accessing your C1 files on a networked server (this was a Mac server via AFP connection only issue, SMB connection never saw this) were well aware how awfully slow it was, constantly hanging and making processing even one file take forever. I was better off downloading and processing the job local, especially when there was a lot to get done. Now with 5.1 it’s smooth sailing again so far. As a matter of fact, I need to get back to it, more client requests to process. I’ll be back with more as I come across more improvements.
Comment by Anthony F — February 25, 2010 @ 3:01 pm
I’m excited that they have added “Auto Pause” to fix the 5.0.2 issue of not updating to new capture if the last frame was not selected. I’m hoping for a big speed increase with Renaming but don’t have my hopes up. Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. Using 5.0.2 on set and have been very happy, but not ready to use 5.1 on set yet. Want to test it a bit more.
Comment by Erik Hillard — February 25, 2010 @ 10:07 pm