Decklink HD+AE+AMD+Quadro FX1500

[Steve Roberts]

If nobody responds here, you might try the Blackmagic Decklink COW.

[Jimmy Brunger]

I didn’t know Xena board doesn’t support x64 – darn..that’s what I was going to go for.

A Decklink HD Extreme should serve all your HD + SD needs and give output/capture..as for DVI/HDMI output. How many DVI ports does you Quadro have? If you’ve not got one spare then perhaps adding another GFX card for that purpose would work? Or add the intensity card – what’s the prob with the intensity?

BTW…how does the Adobe s/ware run on x64 in general? I’m thinking of going x64 so I can load with RAM for a Nucleo+8-core system just running Adobe suite/Mocha + Combustion. And then using a dual-boot, so I can keep all my other every day apps that only run on XP32. Do you reckon that will work? I figured a dual boot system would mean no conflicts with my pro-apps..?

[Mrproductions]

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[Motti88]

I don’t know who told you so but the Intensity is not limited to specific CODECs (The only limitation is identical to the Decklink limitation of no RT support inside Premiere pro for unsupported CODECs).

I am using an Intensity Pro card with AFX 7 & CS3. everything can be previewed out of AFX just like the Decklink.
The differences between the Decklink & Intensity Pro are as follows:
1. Intensity Pro- YUV, S-Video,Comp, HDMI . Decklink HD Extreme – YUV, S-Video,Comp, SDI
2. Intensity Pro- RCA Unbalanced audio,Decklink HD Extreme – XLR Balanced audio
3. No Serial Deck Control port on Intensity.
4. No Reference Input on Intensity models.
5. No Video desktop support in the Intensity drivers.

So the Intensity Pro should meet your needs for an After-Effects video preview framebuffer.

[Mrproductions]

Thanks Motti88.

Actually it was the local Decklink rep. who said the Intensity was CODEC dependant. I ‘did’ finally get through to Decklink support, and a tech. there was kind enough to run a few tests on-the-fly for us with a Decklink HD Extreme.

Seeing as you have an Intensity Pro (I’m assuming connected to an HD monitor) I have a question for you: Do you get normal RAM previews output to your external monitor with a comp set to 852×480, square pixels, 30 fps, and a mix of differing file types like QT and PSD layers?

Also in 1920×1080?

Thanks!

[Motti88]

Actually It’s connected to a the component output to a SD monitor as I still mainly deliver SD.
I set the resolution to PAL in the Video preview settings & everything has worked perfectly for me so far.
Whenever I use a HD Comp I recieve the centeral part of the frame displayed on the SD Monitor but I can get a the full frame resacled to SD if I Check the appropriate check box in the video preview settings (also a nice thing that works in AFX 7 but not in CS3 is that if you select 1/3 res in the RAM preview settings you get a fast rescaled ver. on the SD monitor, so I set the Regular Ram Preview-full res to check details & the Shift-Ram to 1/3 res).
I haven’t encountered any problems with full speed Ram Previews to the Intensity Pro on Comps ranging from SD up to 1920×1080 on my system which has the following specs:
Tyan Thunder K8WE Board
2 x AMD 246 (2Ghz.) Opteron CPUs
2 GB ram
Geforce 8800Gts GFX card
Windows XP Pro 32bit

If you have any doubts you can ask your Decklink reseller to test drive the Intensity Pro with one of your projects.

P.s- The way RAM previews work in AFX it doesn’t really matter how many layers are in a comp as the application renders everything into a single layer for playback so if you can play a full speed preview of one layer in a given resolution you can play any comp in that res (unless, off course, you don’t have enough RAM).

[Mrproductions]

Thanks Motti88. I still need to know if anyone has tested this under “x64”, not XP Pro.

[Diogo Valente]

Hello mrproductions

I was just wondering if you got the answer to your question about decklink. I was browsing trough the forums but I didn’t find any objective answer.
I ask you this because I’m now in the same situation as you were at the time you started this discussion. I also work with After effects CS3, I also want to work with windows XP 64bit and I also need dual monitor plus TV ouput mainly for color correcting and previewing.

I’m investing in a new system for me:
Windows XP 64Bits
4x2GB DDR2
3xHDD 500 GB SATAII
Intel C2Extreme QX6850 (Quad Core) Processor
Quadro FX 1500

So, do you think/know if I need a Decklink product to output from after effects to a TV?
Intensity or Decklink?
Can I have both installed? Decklink and Quadro FX 1500 in the same system?

Thanks in advanced.