• Blackmagic Design

  Poor quality output from HD Extreme Card

  Posted by Tom Sefton on April 8, 2010 at 4:59 pm

  Hi – I have recently purchased a new Blackmagic HD Extreme card. Running After Effects and Premiere CS4 I seem to be getting poor quality video preview on the HDMI output. Is this to be expected? Will the best quality previews come from the HD-SDI out? The footage in the preview windows on my main monitor looks fantastic, and with the Blackmagic codecs I seem to be getting a lot better results than with the Matrox cards I had on older machines. I just hoped to show clients brilliant quality HD video on a 2nd monitor….

  Tom Sefton replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Deleted User

  April 8, 2010 at 6:55 pm

  Hello Tom,

  What are your project settings? And what HDMI monitor do you have?

  Leo
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  Tom Sefton

  April 12, 2010 at 10:02 am

  Hi Leo,

  I have tried various different project settings – all of Blackmagic’s standard HD 1080i and 1080p, plus the HDV versions.

  The monitor I have at the moment for video preview is a HP w2408h.
  It is 1920×1200 and has been used with other video cards to good results so not sure why the BM card wouldn’t be as good?

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