Any gotchas on new system?…

[Deleted User]

Hello Jim,

I have a similar setup to your proposed HD edit suite please see my profile on here for my breakdown. I have not experienced any problems running After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore, Photoshop etc.

I am not sure the motherboard will run properly with 4gb of ram. I currently have 2x1gb memory modules I am looking at upgrading it to 4gb of ram but I was told the baord will have various stability issues as it will not run as desired. Although I have not tested this so I can not be sure of the problems yet.

I am very impressed as it is a fast enough system for most work.

Hope that helps?

Leo

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Leo,

This isn’t the HD system…there’s no way it’d be fast enough for uncompressed HD! I’m hoping for an 8-core Xeon system with tonnes of RAM running XP64 for that. I’m just trying to speed up my uncompressed SD system at the mo, until we go fully HD..

I’ve heard from a few guys on the AE forum that 4GB should run fine. If the moboard has PCI Express, that eats up a bit of RAM, but there will still be enough left over to make my multiple apps workflow run better. I know BMD say 3GB is the limit for the Decklink, but I *think* that just means it won’t use any more than that, as oppossed to not running properly..

..IF someone from BMD would ever read this forum we might get an answer!!!

Leo – your sig didn’t show up – can you post your specs again? I’m intrigued how you’re running HD efficiently..is it HDV?

*Production Studio Premium / *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0

[Deleted User]

Hello,

The Asus I have will do Uncompressed hd playback with the fast supported storage such as Caldigit with I am in the process of looking into buying soon.

My system specs are

Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI DELUXE
Graphics: ASUS Nvidia Extreme N6600GT PCI-E 128mb ddr3
Processor: AMD 4400+ X2
OS: Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2
Memory: 2x1gb Corsair Memory
Capture Card:
Firewire Card – On board Motherboard add on
Decklink Multibridge Extreme PCI-E
4x250GB SATA 1 drives (RAID 0) for storage.

At the moment using it for uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2 sd projects but it is more then capable I was told to deal with hd.

Quadcore sounds interesting, I am not sure on the 3gb limit of the Decklinks, as I am not sure what problems would be expected. Maybe the hardware does not work??

Thanks,

Leo

[Mike Procunier]

That 3GB limit is for real. I’m not sure how it affects PC’s, but on Intel Macs it locks up the entire machine without fail EVERY time you I bring a new clip onto the FCP timeline. I’d email BM directly and ask them how it will effect your system. The 3GB limit is a NIGHTMARE.

[Jimmy Brunger]

I’ve already emailed them several times Mike..no replies for weeks!

[Deleted User]

Hello,

This problem with the limit on the memory has been fixed with the latest build of the decklink software 6.3 on the Blackmagic website http://www.blackmagic-design.com I believe.

Leo