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Decklink Pro in cooporation with Mainconcept MPEG2 Codec
Hello to the programmers of Blackmagic carddriver and Premiere Pro plugins.
Today I tested digitize a movie into MPEG2 with premiere pro (1.5) over the SDI Input of Decklink Pro (Driver 4.8.1).
Also installed Mainconcept Premiere Pro plugin (V 1.0.5).It was not possible to make Premiere settings so that I can directly digitize over Decklink Pro into MPEG2 format, coded by Mainconcept Premiere Pro plugin.
It displays some dialogs in Premiere Pro “Driver Errors” on settings Decklink Pro together with Mainconcept plugins.
It would be a nice feature directly digitize into MPEG2 over Deckling cards fo creating DVDs (with Encore DVD).
Directly digitizing into MPEG2 with Mainconcept Plugin works if I use the firewire input.Test it by yourself by downloading and installing the demoversion of Mainconcept plugin.
Maybe athe next driverversion will support this feature. 😉
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I also think this would be a great feature (but on the Mac side). I suggested it to the guys at BMD a LONG time ago, but there may just be technical hurdles to making this happen. See what NAB brings, then perhaps we can start a petition for mpeg2 encoding from the SDI input of BMD cards. Sure could be a timesaver.
Chris Tomberlin
Editor/Compositor/Owner
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I am also looking for BlackMagic to add this as a feature (or option) to their cards. It’ll be interesting to see if this ever happens.
BTW – Where did all the BlackMagic folks go? Are they ignoring this forum, or are they too busy prepping new items for NAB to post? Hmmm…
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Hi Brian,
This is the first chance i have had to look at the cow for while – you’re right, we are extremely busy preparing for NAB. I’ll answer as many posts as i can today.
Thanksfor the suggestions guys – I will put them in the feature request database. It is something we have not looked at doing so i can’t give you any details as to whether it is possible or not.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Matt,
I actually suggested incorporating MPEG encoding into your products a number of months ago on this forum and also emailed it to your general email address. I received a reply that it would be mentioned to the development team, but it may not have made it through to you.
If your not familiar with Mainconcept, here’s what I know…
Some of Mainconcept’s PC packages allow for realtime encoding over from FireWire and other inputs, but according to the first poster, not from a DeckLink card. The Mac version of their standalone software does not support realtime streamed encoding at all.The nice thing about Mainconcept is that they have a SDK that you could license available for both the Mac and the PC. Their encoding is supposed to be of high quality and capible of real-time on most faster machines. You may want to talk to them at NAB and consider licensing the SDK to add this capibility to your products. I think it would be a valuble addtion or option for your cards.
Take Care
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MainConcept is neck-and-neck with Procoder for producing the very best MPEG-2 from an interlaced source.
For progressive video, Cinemacraft’s Encoder SP ($2,000) is better.
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Hi there,
I believe Blackmagic Design guys have a lot of important things to implement other than codec compatibility…
That’s why I will take this opportunity to draw your attention to one of our products – CaptureBox. It would allow you to capture MPEG2 on a DeckLink card, based on the Mainconcept MPEG2 codec.
Hope this doesn’t break the posting rules on this forum 🙂
Stoyan Marinov
Director of R&D
http://www.playbox.tv
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