CS5 & Intensity perfromance

[Thomas Santopolo]

I don’t think that using the blackmagic presets work with the adobe mercury engine. I can’t get any performance out of their presets, but if I use adobe AVCHD presets I get 8 layers real time. I also have an i7, GTX-285, 12GB memory and raid. I searched their website but there really is no help there. I even tried using cineforms codec but no go. I think matrox is the only card (with the max option) that can edit in real time and have broadcast video output.

[Kristian Lam]

Hi Randy,

What kind of graphics card do you have installed?

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Randy Johnson]

Nvida GTS-250 and I Nvida 9800 on my other machine.

Randy Johnson
Rando1968@comcast.net

[Randy Johnson]

I know I am not taking advantage of the MPE but I should still be able to get a 1 second “slide” right? Without the BM timeline I get great RT even in “full rez” I dont understand MB constantly says there cards just give a an output they dont do anything which if true then why is the computer MUCH faster without it? It definatly seems to be slowing something down.

Randy Johnson
Rando1968@comcast.net

[Thomas Santopolo]

Kristian,
Any way to output through the intensity card using any of Adobes presets, or adding some similar presets to yours? I have the Cineform software and First Light outputs through the intensity card which is great for color correction, but those files will not playback in real-time with your presets. It seems that it would be a big benefit for you guys, particularly sine Matrox is saying they offer real-time multilayer editing, to do something like this. I don’t think you even have a tool that will convert a video file to your format.
Thanks

[Robert Falkowski]

[Thomas Santopolo] “I don’t think that using the blackmagic presets work with the adobe mercury engine”

OMG! Is this true? Reading this:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/124/873752
I was fooled that BMD cards work with Mercury playback.

Robert Falkowski – http://www.mmstudio.com.pl
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System: Windows7 HP(x64), Edit soft: Adobe CS3 Premium, Video: BM-D Multibridge Pro (rev1), CPU: Core i7@3,8GHz, chipset: X58, RAM: 6GB DDR3, VGA: 8800GTS, HDD: 1x500GB + 4x500GB raid0, VTR: BetacamSP: UVW1800P, Dvcam: DSR-11P.

[Randy Johnson]

Id there any advantages of upgrading from the Intensity pro to the Intensity shuttle?

Randy Johnson
Rando1968@comcast.net

[Kristian Lam]

Hi Robert,

We absolutely support the Mercury Playback Engine and have been working with Adobe for some time now to incorporate this into our drivers. From the issues described here, it sounds like a bug or some setup issue which I hope I can help resolve.

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Kristian Lam]

Hi,

Unfortunately, no. The architecture of Adobe Premiere Pro is such that we have to provide the presets. You can’t just use an Adobe preset and opt to output via our cards.

I hope to be able to add some Blackmagic AVCHD presets that will output via our cards, which will in turn also support the Mercury Playback Engine if you have a compatible graphics card.

Randy, since you have your email listed in your signature, I hope you don’t mind someone from Blackmagic send you a patch build sometime to see if performance improves.

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Thomas Santopolo]

I would also be happy to test any patches/updates. My email is tom@vtcomputech.com. Would really be great if you could support the cineform codecs.
Thanks,
Tom