PremierePro and DVCPro50

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Shane,

The short answer is “no.” Premiere Pro 1.5.1 will happily capture DV25 and HDV via Firewire but not DVCPRO. The DV25 or HDV captures are then transcoded to an uncompressed format which DeckLink can use. DeckLink can then play out the uncompressed video to a deck and/or monitor via SDI or analog outputs, depending upon which model of DeckLink card you have.

In regards to mixed formats on the one timeline, they need to be uncompressed to work with DeckLink cards. We have a tech note about compressed formats with DeckLink cards at:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=101

It should provide some background information about using compressed formats on both Mac and Windows.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Shane Chadder]

Thanks Luke

Is it the same deal with Mac? Do you have to render every file captured to the same codec as the timeline to work in realtime? So if you are working uncompressed you have to render your DV files to uncompressed?

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Shane,

Yes and No. With Final Cut Pro HD v5.0 and DeckLink Macintosh v5.0 drivers, you can mix some different formats together on the same timeline. However exactly what you can mix together without rendering is dictated by the speed of your Mac. The faster Macs can mix a range of compressed codecs on the same timeline. Having said that, there is no documentation Final Cut Pro documentation which would provide an idea of what you can expect to work and therefore one simply has to experiment with a system to determine its capabilities.

Even though a FCP5/DeckLink5 setup can playback some mixed compressed codecs on the same timeline on faster G5’s, I would highly recommend rendering all the material to one format before recording to tape. However the ability to mix formats on the same timeline can be a real timesaver when editing.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Sun Da qing]

Now you can!
You can capture dvcpro50,mjpeg,huffyuv in winodws.When you finished the program,You can output timeline via sdi with out render.And any format files in the timeline is realtime.like mpeg1 mpeg2 mpeg2-I wmv divx…….