Vegas 6/ Decklink users- quick gear poll

[Bj Ahlen]

I’m on V5 still (may have time to try V6 sometime next week), but use the Decklink utility for live capture of 10-bit uncompressed directly from SDI camera to disk, using DL Extreme. No tape master output, just DVDs.

Please don’t forget us tapeless folks!

[J Smith]

Haven’t bought Decklink (or vegas 6.0) yet as I’d like the kinks worked out first. I’ll chime in on what my workflow *would* be though:

What Decklink card are you are using?
Decklink Pro or Multibridge PCI Express

What deck(s) are you using?
Sony J3 or DNW-75

How are you monitoring (component/SDI/other)?
Component

What mastering formats are you delivering?
BetaSX DigiBeta DVCAM

What sound card and driver model are you using?
Onboard C-Media CMI9880

How many audio channels is your typical master?
4

[Stewart Mayer]

I’m currently using Premiere Pro, but am interested in switching to Vegas. Too bad it won’t be supporting HDV and Uncompressed HD on the same timeline, that is what I really need for my documentary work. Actually, the trial of vegas 6 freezes up on startup so I havn’t been able to use it yet.

Here is the “hd” system I want to run Vegas on:

Dual p4 xeon nocona processors on a supermicro X6DAE-G2 mobo.
Decklink HD Pro (single link)card
M-audio Delta 1010lt sound card.
Nvidia 6800gt pci-express display card.
8 drive sata raid-5 on a Highpoint 1820a.

Currently I input HD SDI with panasonic 1200a deck and/or any HDcam deck I can get (if that is the format) and I’m monitoring HD via Decklink pro’s analog hd component out. I’ve been told by BlackMagic that they can only assure sound sync with their audio out SPDIF driver, but I havn’t found any difference with using the m-audio card. With 10 channels out you can do surround quite effectively.

For output I’ve mostly been making uncompressed quicktime files as masters and shipping them on a firewire hard drive to another company where the spots and other material are put onto a master tape. No HD tape output as of yet, but if I do I’d prefer 1080i output to HDcam via sdi, HD-D5 would be better but is too costly. Everything I shoot or create I do at 30p so that interlacing issues among different formats doesn’t become a problem. For NTSC tape output, i’m using a JVC Digital-S tape deck (digibeta or DVCpro-50 comparable sdi 4:2:2 format), and old fashioned Beta SP (uvw-1800) for those who want it.

hope this helps.

[Nick Pittas]

DeckLink Xtreme

Sony UVW-2800

Output to Deck Component/XLR, Output to Preview Monitor SDI/SPDIF

Digital Beta, Betacam SP, MiniDV, DVCam, DVD and VHS for Customer Preview

Sound Blaster Live Player

2 channels for Betacam SP, 4 channels for DigiBeta.

[Lkj]

Stewart,
How are you getting your audio from tape to disk? M-Audio card with SDI through the Decklink?

[Octavio Gasca]

DEcklink SP card
Sony beta sp UVW-1800
Monitor by component
Master to Beta SP, MPEG-2, DVD, Mini DV
Creative Audigy 2 audio card
4 audio channels.

I did my first test in the Vegas 6 and works great, much more stable like premiere.