• Blackmagic Design

  Whats the point of the Blackmagic Codec + card?

  Posted by Steve Lim on June 2, 2005 at 11:51 am

  Please excuse my ignorance. This might end up being a long thread. I have lots of questions but I’ll just start with a couple. =)

  I am new to this system.
  We just bought a couple of blackmagic extremes + FCP HD (moving to FCStudio soon).

  In FCP I just found out that I can change my sequence settings in FCP to allow it to play whatever QT variant in realtime (DV, Uncompressed etc.).
  This leads me to ask 2 questions.

  #1 Whats the point of the Blackmagic Codec?? In my previous Edit + Targa based system. The machine had to convert anything you had into its own proprietory mjpeg format which allowed it to work in realtime. I assumed from the beginning that that was what the blackmagic codec was for – realtime editing. Now I see that I can do it with DV etc. So whats the codec for?

  #2 If I have several clips in different QT formats (DV, Sorenson etc.) can I play them all back in the same timeline in realtime? What are my options?

  Apologies for my ignorance.. more to come. =/

  Thanks.
  Steve.

  Steve Lim replied 20 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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