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Blackmagic on XP
Hi Bovines.
There’s plenty of info on the blackmagic products running on apples with FCP, but is there many of you running on PC.
I’m looking to go HD, on PC, with either the PCIe card or a multibridge.
I’m after some user feedback.
How well does it integrate with editing packages? Do you have any workflow issues using BM codecs? How does it deal with HDV (if at all)? Any harware specific hints, especially regarding storage? Any feedback at all would be appreciated. I find you never get the whole story until you talk to the end users.
Thanks in advance.
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anybody?
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It integrates with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Since the new Adobe versions (PPro 2.0 and After Effects 7.0) it works pretty good, no complaints.
-Yves
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It depends on your workflow. If you work only in 10 bit it should be great for you.
In 8 bit SD there are some issues with Pro 2 and AE 7 so you need to stay with AE 6.5. Nothing subtle about this, AE crashes if you try and load an 8 bit clip. It seems like the bug is Adobe as 8 bit Targa 3k files do the same.
Again if you stay in 8bit with AE 6.5 it should be great for you.
If you are NTSC and need to mix DV and uncompressed I’m finding renders go slightly soft because some footage is 486 lines and others 480. Something is resizing is my guess. (you need a dell with an HDLink to see it). I’m not sure who to blame, no one has acknowledged the problem. Maybe its just our 4 systems 😉
Oh, and firewire captures don’t work in PPro 2.0 with BM drivers but I’ve heard that is fixed for the next release of drivers. We keep 1.5 on the system just for firewire.
So they are getting there. If you know the limitations and choose your workflow it is a great product.
Shane
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