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Premiere CS4 vs FCP with DeckLink Studio
We are currently using Premiere CS4 on a Windows XP and Windows 7 OS with a Matrox MX02 Mini box for the purpose of broadcast. What we have found is that in our SD output of an uncompressed avi, .mov, or mpeg2 that there seems to be some compression and low video levels.
With that said, we are looking to change our systems. What I’m wondering is where the compression is coming from… Is it the Matrox box or Premiere?
We’re currently quoting a FCP suite with a DeckLink Studio card to hopefully solve the issue, but I’m wondering if just changing to the DeckLink over the Matrox box would do the trick.
Before spending tons of money on upgrading our suites, does anyone out there edit on a PC with Premiere CS4 and DeckLink Studio? Have you come across any major issues that should confirm our thoughts of changing to FCP? I’d appreciate any information I can get as this seems to be an ongoing, never ending circle. I’d just like to see something that will work the way we need it to.
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[Joanna Ross] “What we have found is that in our SD output of an uncompressed avi, .mov, or mpeg2 that there seems to be some compression and low video levels”
What kind of SD output? SD analog? SD digital? what media are you outputing to? for broadcast has little meaning because its up to the client what formats they want to broadcast from. -
Our outputs include BetaSP, DvCam, authored dvds, but mostly digital files. They are taken from Premiere as an uncompressed avi and encoded with a Digital Rapids Stream system.
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I am curious to what impact you think the MXO is playing in this?
If you are delivering files, there may be some sort of level or gamma modifications necessary at some stage of production or encoding that would be a fairly simple fix for this…
Alex
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OK, what function does the MX02 serve in the signal path?? are you passing the uncompressed video through it to another device? and what format composite, component etc. or just using it for a monitor source and saving the video to a harddrive?
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The MXO2 is being used to connect a dvd player via component input in order to capture through Premiere. For output to Beta it goes through the MXO2 box via component also, but most of the video issues we are seeing was an encode through the Adobe Media Encoder to an internal hard drive.
I’m not sure that it would even be an issue relating to the Matrox box or if it’s just the output in Premiere. I don’t see any settings to change the levels on export and I’ve spent weeks working with a Digital Rapids expert to fix the error through the Master Encode, but nothing passed a broadcaster’s testing.
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