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Blackmagic card and DVCPRO HD
Hi,
i’ve recieved some quicktimes from a post house which are compressed in this way:
DVCPRO HD vout 1080i60 imdc, 1920 x 1080
is there any way to play this through a blackmagic card? is there any settings i should know about? at the moment i have put the project on blackmagic 10bit anamorphic. it’s going to be used for broadcast.
any advice would be really appreciated.
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at the moment i’m having to recompress all the footage to 10bit black magic 720×576 anamorphic and it’s going to take around 10 hours. so if there’s anyway to avoid this it would be great.
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Hi,
In Final Cut Pro, try the “Blackmagic HDTV 1080i59.94 – DVCPRO HD” Easy Setup (CTRL-Q). Then turn on down conversion in the DeckLink Preferences.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
i’m using final cut 4.5 and it doesn’t have that easy set up.
and i also don’t have that option in the decklink prefs.cheers for the help thou.
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right, i’ve installed the new decklink driver, and i have put it on the easy setup you mention and turned on down convertion but it still wont play out. i just get a still frame.
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cheers!
it’s working now, i used the blackmagic 1080i 25hz one and it worked fine. is there any other settings i should be aware of? -
I’m also rendering out of after fx. It seems a bit stupid to render HD when it’s being broadcast SD. what sort of workflow does anyone suggest?
so just to clarify:
i have 1080i dvcpro footage. i will be combining this footage with after fx renders.
delivery will be SD 720×576 anamorphic.At the moment i was going to edit in HD then just export a SD version for delivery. Would it just be better for me to re-render everything at SD?
thanks
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