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SDI – FireWire strange phenomena
Hey there Blackmagic experts
This is a spill-over from the Final Cut forum and I’ll try and be brief. I am the assistant editor on a project that was started by another team. No information is available on that team. I was brought on board with strict instructions that all newly ingested material must match the existing project perfectly.
My tech support knows only Avid and has never seen a Blackmagic card. They set up the room, connecting a 1200 deck to the MacPro via SDI. I’m adept at Final Cut, and my own system works fine, but I haven’t done a lot of work with DVCPRO HD.
The project is 720, 24p. When I ingested, the data rates were about twice that of the existing material, and would not play on the timeline without rendering. Instead, I captured via FireWire, with good results.
The engineers came back and reconnected the SDI, claiming they had gotten it to work correctly. This time when I captured, the video had the right data-rate and aspect, and would play on the timeline without rendering, but had been expanded by 10-20%(picture info around the edges was lost), and was washed out.
Any ideas was to what might cause this? I know the first thought is that there was footage/sequence mismatch, but, like I say, the item properties checked out, as did the motion tab settings. For political reasons, I can’t alter the system in any way, although I could make suggestions to the techs.
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Hi,
The usual things to check:
1) Make sure you use easy setups to configure the project.
2) Make sure that you create a new sequence AFTER choosing the easy setup as they don’t affect any existing ones.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design
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