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  Decklink Extreme HD Downconversion problems

  Posted by Tangier Clarke on April 26, 2005 at 9:15 pm

  I am working on a project using DVCPRO HD media in FCP HD. When I play my timeline, after having selected blackmagic NTSC 8-bit as my playback setting, two things happen on the ntsc monitor at the same time.

  – footage plays but screen flickers with green color
  – footage plays but the image is cut off so I am not seeing all of the faces

  My DL pref is set to SD-anamorphic 16:9

  Any suggestions

  Luke Maslen replied 21 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Luke Maslen

  April 27, 2005 at 5:43 am

  Hi Tangier,

  I think that manually setting NTSC 8-bit is part of the problem. Create a HDTV 1080i/59.94 DVCPRO HD project using the Blackmagic easy setups. Now just play the timeline and it should output as NTSC. You can choose between anamorphic and letterbox down conversion using the DeckLink PrefPane in the System Preferences. 720p downconversion has not yet been implemented and we had hoped to do it a while ago but it is still something we want to add. Tiger, FCP5 and NAB 2005 have kept our engineers busy but they want to add this as soon as they get a chance.

  Regards,

  Luke Maslen
  Blackmagic Design

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