Premiere Pro 5.5 and Decklink card

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Premiere Pro 5.5 and Decklink card

Posted by Robin on August 11, 2011 at 10:25 am

Hi,

I’m currently working on a music video with DSLR footage from 5D and some Go-Pro stuff. The machine I’m working on is a MacPro 8-core 2.4Ghz with 20GB of RAM, Nvidia Quadro 4000, Decklink HD Extreme 3 card with plenty of internal and external storage, and freshly installed Lion from scratch. I was wondering if anyone has had playback problems with their Blackmagic timeline presets? At every edit, playback stops. My timeline is still a single layer cut-to-cut. I don’t have problems using the Premiere Pro DSLR preset. I don’t mind working without a broadcast monitor for the edit but please advise as I’m working towards presenting this in a couple of days. I need a workround in case we need to revise and playback directly to a broadcast monitor.

If not, I’m gonna have to resort to export and playback via Media Express.

I’ve posted in the Blackmagic Design forum as well, just in case.

Vince Becquiot replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
7 Replies

Vince Becquiot
August 12, 2011 at 4:08 am

Hi Robin,

Just a thought, did you disable the dropped frame warning?

I would have waited for that Lion upgrade… Just to allow BM to work out any bugs.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Chris Tompkins
August 12, 2011 at 9:22 pm

I have OS 10.6 and the BMD decklink Studio card.
I have the same problem. Can’t play the Black Magic sequences through all the edits. Editing AVCIntra100 P2.
Premiere does NOT have the same realtime capabilities as FCP has that’s for sure.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC
Vince Becquiot
August 12, 2011 at 9:31 pm

Hi Chris,

Premiere acceleration is provided by one of these cards:

GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GTX 470
Quadro CX
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro 4000
Quadro 5000
Quadro 5000M

Decklink in some case may actually slow Premiere down, since it then provides output to your display.

Premiere should absolutely be able to play native AVC Intra in real time, even with several effects, we do it almost everyday. Heck, we throw in 10 Bit 1080P uncompressed on a regular basis, not a frame dropped.

Try using the Adobe Player instead of BM in your preferences and see if things improve.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Chris Tompkins
August 12, 2011 at 10:44 pm

Ya, when I choose AVCIntra100 – it does play;

See Pic Here:

But I don’t like the mpeg-1 compression. Does it compress it all to that? Then recompress when I export a master?

When I choose High-quality settings;

See Pic Here:

Then we get playback issues. CalDigit Raid box.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC
Tom Daigon
August 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm

Dont worry. The I-Frame only MPEG is for viewing (previewing) your timeline purposes ONLY. It speeds up the process. When you finally export it will create (render) the primary format / size that your sequence has been chosen to be, unless you decide to change things when exporting thru the Media Encoder.

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digita / Areca 8tb. raid
Chris Tompkins
August 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Coming from FCP, I was wondering about this.
Thank You So Much!

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC
Vince Becquiot
August 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm

You should not see any compression unless you render. If you are getting real time playback, and you should, then you are seeing native playback. Double check to make sure your playback settings are set to high in your program monitor.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

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