No video output on my Plasma using Blackmagic Media Express

[Callum Mclay]

Hi Jonathan

What type of footage and encoding is contained inside the .MOV file, and which projects in FCP / Premiere do you use to play it out?

Callum McLay
Technical Support Consultant
Blackmagic Design EMEA

[Jonathan Desbiens]

I tried many .mov files in Media Express… : 720×480 DV/DVCPRO Self-contained FCP export quicktime movie file…1920×816 H.264 apple movie trailer…apple intermidiate codec .mov …

and in same time that I wrote this message…I opened Media Express.. and my last .mov that i tried to open…a uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 appear and play now on the screen….but any other .mov type I try seem to not display on the screen!

In FCP even if I edit in SD or HD…whatever the size…I just select the right video playback and it play correctly on my screen…

Normaly its suppose to play direct to the screen when we open many type of .mov file’s ..right?

Thanks
(sorry for my ENglish..i’m french !!! 😉

[Callum Mclay]

As Media Express is Blackmagic’s own capture playback software, it only contains the Blackmagic codecs (uncompressed, MJPEG etc), which is why when you open an uncompressed file it plays back, but if you open a H.264 or DVCPro file it wont.

Please remember there is a difference between container format (.MOV, .AVI etc) and actual encoding (MPEG, H.264, DVCPro). It is down to the software to support the container format, and then a codec decode the footage for playback.

Final Cut Pro has a lot more codecs available to it than Media Express (such as the DVCPro codecs) allowing it to decode and playback DVCPro footage on a Blackmagic DVCPro timeline.

Hope this helps.

Callum

Callum McLay
Technical Support Consultant
Blackmagic Design EMEA

[Jonathan Desbiens]

Ok!!

But any advise for compatible codec/export that I can do, to play clip throught my screen? Or any other way ..

My principal goal with that is to display clips on my HDTV like a second monitor, without play it throught FCP or AE…what I thought Media Express can do with many type of .mov.

Jonathan

[Schroeder Eric]

I to am having this problem and wondering if there is any solution and or way to do this. Is there a way for VLC to utilize the card for output perhaps? The only thing I can think of to do would be an DVI to HDMI cable and route this through my intensity pro to my TV, but then again why even do this when I could just output it directly to my TV.

Anybody else have any success getting the intensity pro to playback out of something other then final cut or media express without utilizing there own codecs?

[Jonathan Bigler]

I’m running in the same issue, I guess no one has found an answer? As for now I can only use FCP to output videos on my Plasma.