Windows Drivers (where are they????)

[Wolf]

Hi,

when there are no news in some days, i

[Bob Zelin]

Feel free to try the AVID XPress Pro with Mojo . If you like composite OR component only, and 2 channels of unbalanced audio, with no hope of SDI, embedded audio – well, good luck. AVID makes a fine interface, but Mojo ain’t going to work with Premier Pro. And Mojo is a pretty terrible interface for PROFESSIONAL VTR interface.

May I suggest that you check out some AVID forums before you switch to Mojo.
However, if you have $40,000 for a turnkey AVID Adrenaline system (25k for Adrenaline, plus the HP xw8200, plus storage, monitors, etc.), it is a fine product.

Bob Zelin

[Yves De muyter]

Sorry, but I am unable to get any “clean” image out of the mojo. We have 2 converters around the mojo, to make it SDI. The image turns to some greenish. Or old component avid MediaComposer, with the same converters are fine. There must be something very wrong with the mojo!

-Yves

[Yves De muyter]

You can capture using the DeckLink deck control app into a compressed codec and work with that. You won’t have a premiere output though, but a DV to composite converter isn’t that expensive for preview. Dumping can be done using the DeckLink deck control again.

Ain’t perfect, but at least you know BMD will fix this, and very often a week after you made your choice…

-Yves

[Bob Zelin]

Yves –
I was trying to make a joke about the AVID Mojo – it is a terrible product.
However, your “green” problem is because you must go into the TOOLS menu, choose Video Tool, and select COMPONENT instead of COMPOSITE, and the green image will become the correct analog component signal. Even when you get the colors to be correct, you will still be disappointed with this product.

Bob Zelin

[Nick Pittas]

Hello everybody…

I asked a simple question, and I still got no answer. There are many solutions for DV editing (and Avid is one of the best for DV footage), but the problem here is that we are waiting for about 2 months since the last dot update and nobody has any info on the release date or the features/bug fixes that it will include.

As for the debate, Avid has a very professionally oriented interface but the quality sucks even for an Adrenaline. The codecs are awful but it’s used in a way that nobody ever finishes the work on an Avid. The workflow (for commercials and Film) is usually :
1: Capture and Edit on an Avid
2: Export OMF or EDL
3: Re-capture on a machine capable for uncompressed
4: Finish and make the copies straight from that machine.

Too much capturing for no reason…but if you want high quality and you’re working with Avid that’s the only way, unless you have Avid Unity and the material can be tranfered to a DS and be composited from there. But still the quality is 1:1 lossless (not uncompressed).

For Broadcast Avid 3:1 is OK for SD. But for real compositing work you can’t trust less than 1:1.

And all of these for 40K $. I’ll go with Decklink any time.

I’ll be waiting for and answer from anybody who has any infos on the PC drivers.

Thanks
Nick

[Yves De muyter]

I am sure I have selected “component”. The signal is “OK” for a monitor, but not on tape. If I record footage, and dump the same footage on tape, the video looks “greenish”, that doesn’t mean it’s completely green, but has a slight green look to it.

-Yves

[Yves De muyter]

I don’t understand it.
You are asking for an uncompressed codec, but are begging for a compressed solution ?

Have patience, I’d rather have good quality drivers a little late than drivers that suck but are there fast… I don’t know if you have experience in software development, but it’s a fact that software development is very often later than the deadline…

-Yves

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Nick,

Yes, the developers on the Blackmagic Developer Mailing List are already testing the DeckLink v4.9 beta drivers and they will be released when we think they are ready. The developers have given us some great feedback and so we’re implementing those changes now so hopefully they will be available soon. I don’t have a list of specific features for you but I do know this is release contains a major update for our DirectShow support. This is primarily of relevance to developers and is not something that end-users will notice but it has flow-on benefits to DirectShow-savvy applications such as Vegas 6.

I’m not sure why you are anxious about the next release unless there is a specific issue (new feature or bugfix) you are hoping is addressed in the new version. I’m not sure from where you determined the release date as I’m not aware of a firm date. I can only guess that someone from Blackmagic said “in a couple of months” and that rough timeline has now passed. Regardless, the v4.9 drivers are out of development and in beta testing so we shouldn’t have to wait much longer.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Claus-Peter,

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