Premiere Pro and Decklink card

[Tom Daigon]

I would theorize its the BMD drivers. When CS6 was developing Adobe Transmit (the new code allowing external devices like Kona to more easily get hooks into the Player). BMD seems to have more trouble then AJA.

As someone running CS6.02 on a HP Z820 PC I can say the the Kona runs as expected. No frame delays to the external monitor. No audio issues.
With AJA and Adobe products, you now dont need to use any special sequences. Just the regular old Adobe sequences will now playback with full CUDA goodness and display on my external engineering monitor.

I dont care for BMD so have no experiences to share regarding their products. Sorry.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
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HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Oliver Peters]

I just found a thread describing similar issues at Blackamagic’s own forum. Seems like Decklink and Premiere Pro is a bad combination.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Oliver,

Sorry to hear about the problems your running into.

You’ve probably have this figured out but just in case I thought I’d give you this link on how to properly set up a Blackmagic card with Premiere Pro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8i5H5Lm44

Can you tell me if there seems to be any specific thing you do that causes the audio to become distorted? Does the audio randomly drop out during editing or only on first launch?

Is your media on a local drive, external, server?

Thanks for your time,

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe, Premiere Pro QE

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[Oliver Peters]

Thanks for this, but this is what I’ve been doing. The trouble is the performance is inconsistent. I can have an issue, close PPro, relaunch and the problem goes away. Problems range from occasional distorted audio of source clips, playback from one side but not the other (source versus timeline), audio that goes away after a while, etc. All of these seem to be fixed when you close and relaunch. The card works fine with all other applications on the same machine (FCP 7, FCP X, Media Composer). And sometimes, it works fine with Premiere. Just not always. It’s never been completely right with Premiere Pro CS6.

System is a 12-core Mac Pro connected via fibre channel to a SAN. ATI 5870 graphics card. OSX 10.8.2.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Peter Garaway]

Thanks for the added info. I’ll continue to investigate this.

Could you tell me which Shared Storage solution your using.

Thanks in advance,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Oliver Peters]

[Peter Garaway] “Could you tell me which Shared Storage solution your using. “

This is a volume-based SAN solution using Command Soft FibreJet as the SAN management software. The SAN storage pool is partitioned into volumes. All workstations are connected to the SAN server (built into the storage chassis) via fibre channel cards and a fibre channel switch. Read/write permissions are per volume controlled by the FibreJet profiles. Each edit suite is assigned a writeable volume, with read access to all other volumes. Typically, media/renders are on the SAN volume and projects files are stored on the local internal drives. Most of the media is ProRes.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com