Outputing Vegas to HD Monitor

[Ken Bennett]

Thanks, John. I’ll check that out.

Ken Bennett
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[Danny Hays]

I’m sorry, I mean not any better as far as preview framerate. The contrast was better than the secondary DVI from my NVidea card, but no change in framerate. I’m a little dissapointed the GPU support of pro 10 doesn’t help with preview, only renders. John, if you looking into a new i7 and a BM device, The Intensity Shuttle is the same price as the Intensity Pro card, at $189.99 but it has more capture settings and a nice interface box instead of pigtails from the card. The biggest problem I’ve seen with the Shuttle is people have a hard time getting it to work. Blackmagic is very specific on the MB chipset and USB 3 bandwidth it needs to run. I have the Asus P6X58D-Premium. The Shuttle needs an X58 or P55 chipset and a high bandwidth USB 3 port and my Asus board works great with it. BUT,, in order to improve on your capture quality, you will need to capture straight from the imager as once it’s on tape, it’s HDV. The Shuttle will capture 1080 60i Motion Jpeg AVI with color space 4.2.2, noticably better than HDV from my A1. Also it captures uncompressed 8 and 10 bit avi, with a suitable raid array. And having all the outputs live all the time is really nice too. Composite, s video, component 1080i and HDMI 1080i, all usable along with a dual head NVidea card. That’s six video outs at the same time. Unfortunatly Vegas doesn’t give you the MJPEG option when capturing with Vegas. Pro 9c lets me capture 1080i mxf at 50 mbs where pro 10 does not?? I just use the supplied Media Express software and then import to Vegas. For people that capture to tape, it makes a nice multi out device but for people that capture in a studio and don’t have to use tape can get alot more out of it. Danny Hays

[Ken Bennett]

This would seem to be the least expensive way to go right now, since I’d probably have to upgrade my MOBO to to have enough slots.

Is the Spyder3 hardware and software? Price is about $225. I watched a demo that was all software. Ca you expand a bit?

THX,

Ken Bennett
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Capturing Your Life’s Adventures!

[John Rofrano]

[Ken Bennett] “Is the Spyder3 hardware and software? Price is about $225. I watched a demo that was all software. Ca you expand a bit?”

Yes, the Spyder 3 is hardware and software. The difference in the prices between Express ($89), Pro ($169), and Elite ($229), are the capabilities of the software. They all use the same hardware calibrator.

Here is their Comparison Chart. I bought the Spyder 3 Elite but I could have gotten away with just buying the Spyder 3 Pro. The software does the calibration and then loads your video card with the correct profiles every time you boot your computer. It also reminds you to re-calibrate at regular intervals.

~jr

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