Blackmagic Design release version 5.1 for Windows update Blackmagic Design release version 5.0 for MAC and Windows updates

[Gleb Nikulsly]

Thanks! But fields in Decklink DV Editing mode still inverted! reverse playback if fine.
Another bug: Shift image down after apply any realtime effect or transition.
Another bug2: After short editing, on a component output appears green or pink image, playback

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Gleb,

We will be doing improvements to the PAL DV in version 5.2. This was a quick update for AMD users and some improvements we already had coded and could roll into this release.

Bug 1: Can you you give us more details about that?
Bug 2: Thats wierd as it is exactly the same firmware as 4.8

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Yves De muyter]

Hello,

I just found a solution for my customer:

You can create a new DV project preset which is “upper field” or you use one of the uncompressed project presets (but those won’t enable you to capture clips in DV).

Recording is still lower-field, but you can right-click on the clip in the sequence: “Field options…”, check the “Reverse Field Dominance” and select in “Processing Options” the radiobutton “Interlace Consecutive Frames”. This makes recorded clips upper field, and your effects will be upperfield. As soon as you export the project to tape, clips and effects will be upperfield and there is no problem. Clips don’t have to be rerendered for the field change and you have a correct non-fieldswapped preview on the monitoring output while playing clips/sequence. The preview while recording is still garbage, but it is recorded OK on disk.

For the record:
– Windows XP SP2
– Adobe PPro 1.5
– HP wx8000
– DeckLink Extreme
– PAL
– 2x 140GB SCSI drives for media, software striped
– 1x 200GB IDE drive for DV media (actually longer-term stored clips from the SCSI drives).
– Barco ADVM14 SDI monitor

-Yves

[Adrian Tecson]

this release is great. works well with my dual xeon/supermicro based station:)

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Adrian,

We are really pleased to hear that!

We are already 3/4 of the way through 5.2 which has some nice new features as well as improvements to PAL DV support.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Kevin Christopher]

[Gleb] “Another bug: Shift image down after apply any realtime effect or transition.”

Thats Funny. That is the very same bug I found in speed razor when they switched to the AJA card. Here is what we found.

DV is 720 x 480 in order to display this in an uncompressed timeline the display engine has to “composite” it in a 720 x 486 frame. The Image has to be shifted down 2 pixels. The problem is the source is still 720 x 480, and when it was passed to the transition the transition did not “composit” it into a 720 x 486 frame. Therefore thetransition produces a 2 pixel shit up.

Hope this makes sense.

Kevin

[Adrian Tecson]

Thats great to hear. This new driver has gotten me quite excited. I’m just about ready to toss my Avid XpressPro cause now I can do TVC offlines in PrePro as well. Currently, there’s still a glitch in the timecode of Prepro, I hope Adobe addresses it soon.

[Gleb Nikulsly]

I am sorry for silence, did fresh install of windowsXP

More detail:
Bug 1: In DL DV Editing mode if to apply any realtime effect or transition such as brightness&contrast,
dissolve video shift down on approximately on two pixels. After the end of transition or effect zone video image comes back.

Bug 2: With 4.8 all

[Ajudson]

I installed 5.1 for Windows on my AMD system, and now my system no longer mounts Firewire or USB external hard drives. If I revert back to 4.8, then everything is fine again.