VU meters missing in capture

[Chris Borjis]

someone else mentioned this.

you have to use a third party capture utility
that came with whatever card you have.

[Mike Squires]

Yep, the VU meters don’t work during capture/ingest in CS5.5 or CS6, but work with Black Magic’s Media Express (using a BMD card). Unfortunately, when using Media Express, you don’t get all of the codec options that you do with PPro.

[Randy Bernhardt]

I find this to be an essential tool. How can a faced paced editorial house rely on third party plugins for, lets say, batch digitize. This is a no brainer. C’mon adobe, you can hover thumbnails but you’ve missed something as essential as meters for digitizing.

Randy Bernhardt
https://www.postop.tv

[Mike Squires]

While I agree with you on the VU meters in capture/ingest, saying you need third-party software isn’t actually accurate. You just need to use the software that came with your capture hardware, which I wouldn’t call third-party, PPro is closer to third-party.

[Randy Bernhardt]

Huh? PP Third party… I could see if BM was supplyng the edit software, but in this case, they are not. Point is we need VU meters on capture internal to the editing software.

Randy Bernhardt
https://www.postop.tv