MC6 and Blackmagic performance

[Pat Horridge]

I think it’s still early days for the 3rd party I/O solutions and Avids DX boxes fly in comparison.

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[Michael Phillips]

It will be interesting to see the difference in performance between third party I/O vendors to see what is common or not between them. Based on that, one will be able to tell whether these limitations are in the third party implementation or the SDK itself from Avid. There are known limitations already listed in the Knowledgebase. Still early days, will be interesting to see what is served up in the second round.

Michael

Michael Phillips

[Neil Patience]

Yes early days for this but its a great addition.

I have a test set-up on an older MacPro with a Kona 3 running Lion and Avid 6.01

I have only used it on smallish projects and a timeline of a couple of layers here and there and 12 – 15 mins tops. So nothing too taxing to come to any real solid conclusions.

I use MC and Symphony on everything from Mojo’s to Nitris depending on where I am working so am used the to performance there. That said I was pleasantly suprised at the speed and smoothness of moving around the timeline with the Kona and trimming seems fine – again on a pretty basic level.

I am looking towards Blackmagic for Resolve so its interesting to hear your experiences.

best wishes
Neil
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[Michael Phillips]

I use a Blackmagic as well and for the most part, it works well other than the listed limitations as well as things like dual trim mode on the client monitor etc. But hopefully those things will get added to the SDK so third parties can implement and take advantage of them.

Michael

Michael Phillips

[Neil Goodman]

On 10.6.8 i have the same laggy trimming and scrubbing, mostly with the caps lock key on. This is with the deckling extreme HD 2.

At home on 10.7.2 everything is pretty smooth and snappy with the intensity extreme. It works just as smooth as my nitris at work with MC 4.

Seems like those drivers are geared more for lion now.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[John Pale]

I have the Decklink Studio 2. Performance is generally very good with driver 9.0…I have had problems with 9.1 and 9.2, that render it unusable to me. Even with 9.0, there is an annoying bug…I get a crash with audio only files loaded into the source monitor with scrubbing turned on (caps lock).

[Michael Phillips]

Yes, CAPS LOCK is a killer in all these scenarios. A perfect example of where does the issue lie:? The playback pipeline, the SDK, or the implementation of the SDK or a little of all three?

Michael

Michael Phillips

[John Pale]

“Yes, CAPS LOCK is a killer in all these scenarios. A perfect example of where does the issue lie:? The playback pipeline, the SDK, or the implementation of the SDK or a little of all three? ”

I don’t I have first hand knowledge but I have heard that AJA does not have these issues, only Blackmagic and Matrox.

[Michael Phillips]

Good to know, perhaps someone with AJA hardware will chime in with their experiences.

Michael Phillips

[Eduardo Serrano]

I have the same sluggish issue both with caps lock and in trim mode with my matrox MXO2 mini. It renders the unit basically unusable.

Also, I have a sync problem between my various audio meters within avid.

The interesting thing is that matrox has an even older partnership with the MC team than AJA. Well, let’s see if any AJA user chimes in with his impression.

Ed.