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  • NTSC DV fields backwards

    Posted by Shane Chadder on July 21, 2005 at 6:23 pm

    Hi

    I’m evaluating a board, and not likely buying it because it interprets DV fields backwards in Version 5.0 on Decklink HD.

    I created a new BM SD 8bit project. Imported a DV clip previously captured in premiere and the field order is backwards. If I open the clip in an Adobe DV project all is well.

    To bad. The board is otherwise quite remarkable. Has anyone else run into this? Is this something that will be fixed soon?

    Shane

    Shane Chadder replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ray K

    July 21, 2005 at 9:16 pm

    Hi shane
    I see that also but theres a easy work around. “reverse field order”
    Since this happens in realtime its not really a big issue. Iam sure there looking into it. As far as that being the reason not to invest in there product so be it… I was one of the original windows version buyers and They have impressed me each and every driver release.. Do I want more “yes” but I do with everything I purchase.I have yet to see a perfect product, But from where they came till now is FANTASTIC. And Iam sure it will only get better.
    There are other options out there, but I think if you look hard enough you’ll find flaws also… Good luck with what ever it is that the hard earned cash buys….
    regards
    ray

  • Shane Chadder

    July 23, 2005 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks Rayk, but the reverse field order didn’t solve it, it doesn’t seem to do anything, and I had to return the card to the dealer.

    The board seems otherwise excellent. We may buy a few yet, but I need to know it is going to work seemless with the shared footage from other systems and that is likely going to be Adobe’s native dv.avi…the stuff it seems to reverse the fields on.

    Shane

  • Yves De muyter

    July 23, 2005 at 7:30 pm

    You might want to wait a few days. BMD have acknowledged the problem, a fix has been promised. 🙂

    -Yves

  • Shane Chadder

    July 24, 2005 at 2:47 pm

    Thanks

    I’ll keep lurking here and borrow a demo a board when the fix is announced. I’m hoping that both Decklink and Axio can read the same native dv25 sources off a server, and uncompressed and renders I’ll store local in the suite….maybe I’ll do one Axio, three Decklink or two Axio and two Decklink.

    Axio will do a ton of SD realtime layers (someone said they demoed 16? realtime layers) for packaging our show, and Decklink will do fine for i/o and monitoring for longform story and doc work.

    BTW what software are you cutting with on PC? We are still on discreet Edit and have found nothing Mac or PC that we like as well, but the software was discontinued 3 years ago so we need to move on.

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