Blackmagic offline codec settings ?

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Blackmagic offline codec settings ?

Posted by Nick B on August 30, 2005 at 2:27 pm

Hi i am looking to re-compress DV material to something better than Apples RT offline codec for another editor to edit on a laptop.
I have a Blackmagic card in my system so i thought maybe compress the already captured DV using a Blackmagic photo jpeg setting,
what i cannot find is a quality setting 0-100% for the Blackmagic codec, is there one ?

I assume the other editor can just download the codec from Bmagics website and it will be fine on a Powerbook (straight cuts no effects)

Thanks

Mark Palmos replied 20 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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Luke Maslen
August 31, 2005 at 5:50 am

Hi Nick,

Any Blackmagic codecs that you find are uncompresesd codecs and so the only option is maximum quality. That is why you cannot find a way to change the quality with Blackmagic codecs.

The Blackmagic JPEG easy setups invoke Apple’s PhotoJPEG codec. If you are working in standard definition, render the file using the PhotoJPEG codec set to 75% “High” quality.

I should warn you that rendering from one compressed codec to another is likely to lead to ugly results but you will just have to experiment and see how it goes.

The editor will not require Blackmagic codecs on his/her system as QuickTime includes the PhotoJPEG codec.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
Dave Beaty
September 19, 2005 at 3:24 pm

Hi,

I have a Sequence I’m editing in FCP using Blackmagic JPEG codec. I am also converting some MPEG 2 in Cleaner for use in this project but I don’t see any of the other Blackmagic codecs in the encode settings, other that uncompressed 8 and 10 bit.

I was hoping not to have to render everything back to the Blackmagic JPEG codec when I bring it into the sequence. It’s a fast render but is it recompressing when it does that? Is there anyway to render to Blackmagic JPEG from quicktime apps?

Dave
Kristian Lam
September 20, 2005 at 4:53 am

Hi,

We do not have our own JPEG codecs but use the ones provided by Apple. You can find it as Photo-JPEG in your Quicktime export compression settings. We use 75% quality (High).

regards

Kristian
Blackmagic Design
Mark Palmos
September 24, 2005 at 11:55 pm

[Kristian Lam] “We do not have our own JPEG codecs but use the ones provided by Apple. You can find it as Photo-JPEG in your Quicktime export compression settings. We use 75% quality (High).”

Hi Kristian,

I was wondering, are these JPEG compressed codecs available for PC too, and can one edit on Premier Pro 1.5 using them with the Decklink cards?

Thanks,

Mark.
Mark Palmos
September 24, 2005 at 11:55 pm

[Kristian Lam] “We do not have our own JPEG codecs but use the ones provided by Apple. You can find it as Photo-JPEG in your Quicktime export compression settings. We use 75% quality (High).”

Hi Kristian,

I was wondering, are these JPEG compressed codecs available for PC too, and can one edit on Premier Pro 1.5 using them with the Decklink cards?

Thanks,

Mark.

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