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questions before purchase of Pro/Extreme SD
Hi all,
I’m continuing a quest for our company to purchase decklink cards for running PPro and After Effects. I’ve almost hit the jackpot, but ofcourse our engineers have to approve such a purchase. If anyone else uses these cards in the same scenario as we will could you let me know any problems you have encountered and generally how happy you are. We will be producing 30second SD spots:
Shot on digibeta -> capture through SDI with machine controll
Edit in Premiere Pro
Send to AE ->Render out
View in PPro and play out to tape.Also, will I be working with the blackmagic codec throughout this whole procedure? Will I gain realtime effects in PPro (what ones). I gather I can preview PPro/AE/PS to a monitor….can I send video/audio to scopes?
Does anyone use Pinnacle Liquids? Unfortunately we do at the moment. Can we install the blackmagic codec on these machines to import vision if need be?
Cheers for the help…..I’m really really looking forward to getting one these cards
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We have same kind of combination you like to have. Liquid Blue as well. I’ll say we are satisfied enough, so satisfied that we just ordered half a dozen more Decklink Pros to our graphic designers. Pro is good for us because all our material is SDI and we can monitor analog video.
There may be some tweaking with gamma shift when you are jumping between YUV and RGB colorspaces (between PPro and AE). Also audio monitoring is little pain because audio monitoring is SPDIF and there are not many loudspeakers that have SPDIF in.
You only need two SATA drives striped together in windows and you can grab and playback uncompressed. Just tested two empty 400G SATA150 drives in HP8200 striped together: read 117 MB, write 112,7 MB, uncompressed 8 bit Pal read framerate 147!
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