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    BMD and AJA compatibility

    Posted by Henninc on October 27, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    hi there,

    we are happily using Blackmagic cards in all our FCP workstations.

    we are planning to update our hd suite with a mac pro working mainly with DVCPROHD.
    I thought we could take advantage of the hardware acceleration with an AJA card for
    the DVCPROHD workflow. but we also need to share captured (bmd 8 or 10bit) files on all
    workstations for SD across the network. will mixing (SD-) files captured on either card
    in one timeline introduce any renderings?

    thanks,
    henning

    Henninc replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Luke Maslen

    October 30, 2006 at 3:44 am

    Hi Henning,

    The DeckLink HD series cards were the first cards to support DVCPRO HD in Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 and I think you’ll find they’ve got fantastic performance on your Mac Pro as we use the right combination of hardware and software processing for different tasks without blowing out the cost of the card. I would suggest that you test this on your existing cards rather than just listening to marketing hype as we’ve been working with DVCPRO HD for years including RT effects.

    Yes you can mix 8 and 10 bit uncompressed material on an SD timeline without needing to render, using Final Cut Pro 5.x.
    I would recommend the current Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 which is a Universal Binary, along with Mac OS X 10.4.8, QuickTime 7.1.3 and DeckLink 5.1.2 drivers.

    Regards,

    Luke Maslen
    Blackmagic Design

  • Henninc

    October 30, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    hi luke,

    thanks for the response.

    cheers,
    henning

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