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Decklink Card Questions
I’m looking at adding one of the Decklink cards to PPro 1.51 (currently with no video card, just monitoring by using a DAC from the DV out). I have a couple questions of people who have used the Decklink cards:
1) Although they are intended as uncompressed I/O cards, what happens when you place a compressed clip on the timeline, such as a Qucktime with the animation codec. Currently, if I place a Quicktime clip in a DV sequence the PC will do the best it can to decode the Quicktime, and encode it to DV in realtime. I can usually get a single Quicktime clip to play full res, full frame in real time. If I install a Decklink card will it function in a similar way?
2) Currently if the CPU can’t keep up with decoding/effects (and the preview setting is set to Automatic Quality), the image resolution will degrade gracefully while maintaining a full (or nearly full) frame rate. I’ve heard that the Canopus NX for SP video card (which I’m not considering) insists on displaying full resolution and full frame rate … if a frame needs to be skipped it simply stops. Will the Decklink cards degrade resolution gracefully to display a real time preview?
Are Decklink users generally happy with the product? Any significant problems?
Thanks,
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The Decklink card works like the canopus in that it will render anything not in its preferred codec and format. With a fast system I haven’t found this to be an issue. Then again, I spend more time in After Effects the PPro so I am use to waiting for preview renders.
I have the DL Extreme since we mostly work from BetaSP. Overall I think the card works great. Tech support is very responsive to any problems and the drivers are updated often. -
Thanks for your response!
Just to be clear: If you place a clip on the timeline that is not in it’s preferred format, you see Nothing out of the card during playback for scrubbing until it’s rendered?
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