• Blackmagic Design

  Choosing the Card for Pro Environment

  Posted by Rededitor on May 15, 2006 at 3:40 am

  Hi there
  I was just about to purchase the HD Pro 4;2:2 card, but it looks like it has been superceded by the HD Extreme card.

  My dilemma is as follows…
  I will be running a WINDOWS XP setup.
  I need to be able to downconvert HD timelines to Digital Betacam, AND I need Analogue Audio In and Out.
  The main reason I wish to do so, is that for SD TV commercials, I believe I can maintain better quality by post-producing the entire ad in HD, then downconverting to Digi at the end for station use.

  My basic questions before purchase are:
  1. I assume I can capture SD (DigiBeta) in a HD project and playback in real-time. Is that correct?

  2. Is all HD captured vision playable back in realtime, or does it have to be rendered before playback? (excluding effects of course)

  3. If I purchased the HD Pro 4:4:4 PCI-X card (with no analogue audio), and then used the Multibridge unit to give us analogue audio I/O,.. will I get a 1 frame delay of the audio.

  Hope you can help, as I can’t find specific answers to these questions in the specs.
  Cheers
  RED

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