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Decklink and Apple DVD Studio Pro
Does the Decklink v5 driver supports the new Ext. Monitor feature in Apple DVDSP?
If not, is it expected soon?
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Nope. That feature only works when the output is provided by the AGP display card. Ironically, this means a Powerbook and even an iBook have more direct support than a G5. With a G5, you could either use the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition (not Special Edition but the 128 MB one) or get the DVI to super video cable.
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
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Thanks
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What if you run an average video studio cabled to a machineroom ?
There is a calibrated production monitor to evaluate and there are editing monitors to work with.
I was sooo shure it would work for DVDSP 4 to get the video signal to my Sony.
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I am not kidding you. Uwe, And I’m not a member of the DVD SP team. Please address your frustration to them, not me 🙂
I think you fail to grasp they don’t do it this way because they don’t know better. They do it this way surely because of the way DVD SP works internally (just like Motion’s monitoring capabilites are very slow for the same reason). DVD SP probably uses the AGP hardware to decode and even it performs some kind of real time muxing in the simulator. They seem to be aware of the limitations – Notice how Apple doesn’t really advertise this capability. It’s buried in the manual and late breaking news.
If it’s this or nothing, I take this. Hopefully, there will be other options in the future. But don’t expect that other option to be a Decklink, but rather a MPEG hardware board. If you consider how competent Blackmagic are for implementing these things, if it would be possible to support DVD SP with Decklink, they would have done it already.
I have no idea how you could solve the cabling problem. Mind you, DVD SP 4 is for DVD authors, and DVD Authors are not typically connected to a machine room. They are usually connected to a video monitor and deck, Digibeta, Beta SP or whatever. Still, if it’s this or nothing, I take this 🙂
As for calibrated monitors, what’s the problem? There’s a reality check that you can try.
Invite 10 video content creators you know (not video technicians, obviously) and show them both a a composite, super video and a component output of any production. Count how many of them guess it right. You’ll notice most of them will be able to easily tell apart composite from the other two, but not so many will figure out those other two. I remember that many years ago it was discussed on the AJA Kona forum how Y/C is actually a quite good connection, closer to component than it is to composite.
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
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Hi Adolfo,
You’re not a member of the DVDSP team and I had a bad day.
You’re right – but it’s a pity that it doesn’t work as I expected.
Guess we’ll survive it as usual.All the best
Uwe
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