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Timeline output card for Premiere Pro on PC?
How many of you folks work with a dedicated pro video output card to view your timeline in Rec709 on a broadcast monitor? I’ve had a very hard time finding many with actual experience with this, and it makes me wonder if most people are just monitoring in the computer, and trusting it to be ‘good enough’.
From what I’ve read:
– AJA seems like the best hardware, but PC support is still poor.
– Matrox might work better w/ PC, but hardware is less robust, and support across the board is bad.
– Blackmagic has both the worst hardware and support.What I want is something that will let me view my timeline in Rec709 out to a calibrated HDMI or HDSDI monitor. Ideally I don’t want to give up the CUDA/Mercury performance gaines, but realize I probably will have to. I also don’t want to have to transcode into some proprietary format, as the non-transcode workflow is one of the best things about Premiere. I wonder which one has the best speed, and which crashes less often.
Anyone with experience, please chime in.
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I use an AJA card with Premiere [Win7-64 pro, SuperMicro i7 mobo, CalDigit HD Pro] and it works; things improved with the last release of drivers. However: I use AfterEffects much more than Premiere, so others will have to call out the quirks they’ve found in editing.
BTW, my video out card history reads like this:
DPS “PAR”->DPS Velocity-> Bluefish444 -> BM DecklinkSD -> AJA Xena(Kona).
From my ‘scopes, the only companies that seemed to make a proper, stable, correct video signal were DPS and AJA.Hope it helps,
Jeff -
Thanks for the reply Jeff. It’s good to hear of at least one person having good results w/ the AJA cards on PC.
I’d love to hear from other AJA or Matrox users who edit in PPro. Are the drivers working well enough now? Is the timeline snappy?
Is anyone having much luck using the Matrox MX02 and it’s calibration utility w/ either a pro video monitor, or a cheaper consumer display?
I’m leaning towards the “cheaper” route of using a Ezio CG243W 10bit displayport monitor w/ my Quadro CX card for monitoring. It can’t do more than dual head output- but I can get calibrated Rec709 off a PPro timeline for ~$2k without any drivers beyond what I’m already using. This is assuming that it’s a YUV codec, and only 32bit float/YUV fx are applied.
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Im another AJA Kona 3 user that currently has no issues with most formats.
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 Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3 -
Thank Tom, I guess I should have clarified- I’m looking for Windows users experiences, as it seems the reliability of 3rd party cards vary by platform.
-Tom
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Sorry 😀
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 Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3
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