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Not getting a RT experience
Hello,
I am a new owner of a Decklink HD (with the SDI and serial port) extreme card and new to the creative cow community.
I own a MAC Pro two dual-core 2.66 with 3 gigs of ram and of course the BM card.
The BM card is plug into the #4 slot and I have downloaded the universal driver for the card. As well did the proper allocation for the PCIe port as recommended on BM’s site. Also I have the latest universal Final Cut Pro Studio.I am not outputting to a broadcast monitor. As of now, I am using via graphics card an apple 23″ and 20″ cinema display.
My questions or statements are.
I thought that if I had the BM card, that I would not have to render say jpegs in a FCP timeline if I chose the BlackMagic NTSC Jpg compressor for my sequence.
How come I don’t see the BlackMagic presets when setting up a project in motion?
Why is Final cut still need to render SD footage shouldn’t it be real time bc of the card?
How come Motion as well as after effects 7 is using ram previewing and not just playing in RT because of the card?
I know there are setting to set but was hoping maybe there was a different site besides the support page of decklink that can give more details on the workflow of decklink or a DVD that gives you a more in depth look at the HD extreme card.
I feel tempted to turn the card back, but know it is something I am not doing or understanding, so I want to give the card a chance.
I apologize for all the questions but it is something I want to lean and use to its fullest.
I know the card is a step in to more of the professional world of editing an compositing so I have much to lern.
Thank you for your time.
SRM2007
Thank You!
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2 Replies
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I think you’re confused as to what a Blackmagic Card is:
The card does NOT provide any realtime. It’s a card designed to get professional grade digital video in and out of your Mac to professional machines like Digibeta or HDCAM.
Motion, After Effects, etc… do not use the Blacmagic card EXCEPT to give you a SDI video preview to an external monitor. Motion will gain performance by having a beefier DISPLAY card in the Mac (i.e. NVIDIA with DVI out). After Effects will run faster when they make a universal binary for your Mac Pro.
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Thank You! CharlieX2
Is it safe to say it would be more logical to take the card back and use the money for a 512 vram card (ex ATI or Nvidia) for the displays, as well as purchasing more ram?
Another question – Is it possible to edit uncompressed without the card (say I raid large drives together) or will I need to have the card to read the uncompressed footage?
Thank You, Again.
Thank You!
SRM07
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