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DL Extreme and DVCPRO25
Running FCP4.5 on a G5 with DeckLink Extreme, and having field issues when capturing dvcpro25. According to BM it’s a field swap issue that has yet to be solved by them for dvcpro25. Anyone who knows more about this? Is this something that’s in the pipeline? So far, it’s not a biggie, but soon enough, we will need to use dvcpro25-material in more than just tests. Which means we will have to get a working setup, or worst case, a workaround. Anybody else run into this?
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I think with the Panasonics machines you can set them to play DV out instead of pro can’t you? There isn’t any difference in the field order, just some of the header info I think. I’ve captured 60 hours of Pro into Premiere and it just treats it as DV.
I have the same problem with Window’s Premiere captured dv fields being playing reversed in an uncompressed 8bit BM project. Does it only happen on the DL output? The firewire output is fine?
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” with the Panasonics machines you can set them to play DV out instead of pro can’t you?”
Not really. Not in my world. Which, I should’ve mentioned, is PAL. PAL-DV and DVCPRO25 uses different sampling resolutions. And apparently the DL-card uses field-reversal to work with virtually every other codec there is. Just not DVCPRO25, which is the reason why this problem occurs for this specific codec. This happens not at playback, but at capture. So the material is captured with the wrong field order. Which can be dealt with. By methods that craves a) a lot of rendering b) lowering quality. Something we don’t want. This is just something that should work, I say. I would like to have a neat way to capture PAL-standard DVCPRO25 material via SDI, edit it, and then print it to DVCPRO25 via SDI. So far BM hasn’t been able (or should I say bothered enough) to provide us with the means to do just that.
The only decks we have that uses FW are DV and DVCAM-decks. And sure, but again that requires rendering to match the standards.
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