-
FCP5 and HDV useless
-
Bob,
do you have a Kona 2 or Decklink HD card in your system? both of these give you the ability to downconvert to SD out from an HDV timeline in realtime. Converting HD material to SD via software is always a painful process, although your Compressor time seems a little high. I just tried a 3 minute sequence to best quality 10 bit uncompressed SD via Compressor and it took 20 minutes which is about 7x as opposed to your 16x and I have the same Dual 2.0 as you.
Steve Connor
Cardinal HD -
thanks tim for this answer we had the exact same problem over the weekend – couldnt render and constantly had the out of memory box.
thanks for the tip!!
system 1 G5DP 2.0 / 2.0G RAM / OS 10.3.8 / QT 6.5.2 / FCP HD 4.5 / CineWave 4.7 / Cinewave RT Pro/ Pro Digital Plus & Pro Analogue BOB
-
Steve,
Can you recommend which specific card, to go with. I can only have a PCI card now because my PCI-X is taken from an internal RAID.
So this card Encodes HDV to SD but I’d still have to encode to MPEG2 which is fine because all I want is a HDV master.
-
I just got off the phone with a guy from B&H Photo, who says the black magic cards are merely capture cards if I’m looking to do uncompressed, which I”m not. They have some real time capability but if I’m looking to go from an HDV timeline and downconvert to SD, thats not what these cards do. So now I’m back to square one.
-
The Guy was talking complete rubbish, Decklink and Kona 2 are input AND output cards, I can play an HDV timeline out to SD in real time from the Decklink card.
Steve Connor
Cardinal HD
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up