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Will the card work for me?
I have two Boxx Computers with the following configuration.
Boxx Technologies 3DBOXX S5i
INCLUDES: Dual XEON DP 3.06GHz, 512k cache, 533MHz FSB
40GB 7200 rpm ATA133 hard drive
2GB PC2100 ECC Reg DDR (2- 1GB DIMMS)
DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW CDRW Combo drives EIDE (black bezel)
3x200GB 7200 rpm ATA133 hard drive 8MB Cache
Canopus ADVC-1394 Firewire DV Capture Card
NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 128MB 8X AGP
Windows 2000 Professional editionMy second system uses
Wildcat 4 7110 8x AGP Pro
Currently we capture to a large storage system over a gigabit network. This has worked great for DV codec video.
My questions are
1. Will the Decklink HD products work on these computers?
2. Will they be able to capture HD video over the gigabit network? -
4 Replies
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Dan
We are finding some real issues with workflow and the Decklink cards. Some of the problems are real “bugs” ie the card not currently doing what it should, and others are problems with the way they’ve implemented the “real time” DV in Premiere NTSC. I suspect it is mostly drivers and I’m hopeful they get it sorted out soon.
If you work in all uncompressed or all DV it is an economical choice. If you try and mix it can become a nightmare.
re: Gigabit
You might be able to capture HDV over gigabit but not HD uncompressed. Decklinks don’t even monitor HDV (in windows), you have to uncompress your footage.
re: Your computer
It needs to be windows XP, not 2000. What software are you using?What are you wanting to do?
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when you find someone who can capture HD video over an ethernet network (1Gig Ethernet), you let me know, and I will make both of us rich.
Bob Zelin
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What DV in premiere issues are you experiencing? I am not so worried about mixing formats.
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I’m sure you know it is best to work in an 8 or 10 bit uncompressed timeline, even with DV material, so that effects render out uncompressed.
The problem is in a Blackmagic uncompressed timeline, DV clips play ok realtime, but any rendering reverses the fields. So if you add a name super the fields reverse for the duration of the super.
The only work around is to go through the timeline reversing fields for the duration of the effects before you print to tape.
But if you now want to export the whole timeline for a DVD or something anything DV has the fields reversed, so you have to rework the already completed timeline and reverse every DV clip.
The problem arises because it is 480 line DV clip on a 486 line timeline. I would think they should be able to solve this by positioning the clips up one line by default. They need to rethink this work flow as it causes us no end of greif.
If you work in a DV only timeline you are OK…unless you try and capture via the SDI in with the latest drivers which shift the frame right to include the sync bar…just a driver thing tho, they had it working right before.
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