Video editing software firm Tenomichi has announced that 3D Edit will now ship with Connect3D Radeon graphics cards, and flash memory devices.
Tenomichi's 3D Edit is a video editing package which leverages the computer's GPU power to provide real-time video effects through DirectX9. In January of this year DVdoctor reviewed 3D Edit - an article worth checking out if you want to learn more about the functionality of the program.
Connect3D's Radeon 9550, X800, X850 and X1000 ranges of graphics boards will ship with Tenomichi 3D Edit Silver, with an option for users to upgrade to the Gold edition at a discounted rate.
More info on the Connect3D offerings to be bundled with Tenomichi 3D Edit is available here on Tenomichi's own web-site.
The question of whether or not GPU-based video editing is advantageous to users continues to be asked, but Tenomichi seem to put forward a compelling argument, and 3D Edit has an impressive feature set and more so for both its asking price and the overall platform costs. Whilst it's the first partner of ATi Technologies to get in the game, Connect3D is not the first graphics card manufacturer to team up with Tenomichi - that mantle goes to XFX.
Ever forward thinking, XFX – which seems to have muscled way well past (the memory ?) of Gainward as the premier NVIDIA partner – started bundling a version of Tenomichi 3D Edit back in the first half of May this year.
This seems to have been catalysed by the well-received first public showing of 3D Edit by NVIDIA at its booth at the Siggraph exhibition in Los Angeles August 2004.
NVIDIA, and then XFX’s, proactivity, impressed the hell out of us, especially as ATi Technologies’ seem to have been offered the first bite of this particular cherry.
However, it seems that despite NVIDIA’s involvement well over a year ago, there’s still no specific 3D Edit profile in NVIDIA’s ForceWare device drivers, or indeed clarity as to whether it’s a supported application for customers of NVIDIA SLi.
In addition to Tenomichi's XFX and new Connect3D bundling arrangement, a special AMD version of 3D Edit also seems to be available from select retailers such as SCAN when purchasing AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors.
We think this is a very smart strategy by AMD Marketing, because 3D Edit is (claimed to be) a multi-threaded application that would really emphasise the practical benefits of the processing power of AMD dual-core processors, such as its Athlon 64 X2 and Opteron processors.
What we're not so sure of, is whether there's much joined-up thinking going on at AMD PR, because we've never seen a Press Release, or indeed received any communication, from AMD PR which mentions this exciting bundling deal; however this may just be a UK thing - again.
So, it seems Tenomichi is doing a good job of pushing its product out with hardware that will allow it to work its magic, and perhaps this will improve further with the multi-threaded device driver optimisations which both ATi and NVIDIA are working on. They've got bundles with XFX and Connect3D now, so that's NVIDIA and ATI graphics hardware covered, along with CPU manufacturer AMD, not to forget e-tailer SCAN.
