Adrian Graham-smith
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I expect you’ve found a solution to this yourself, by now. But in case you haven’t: I’ve been running a Decklink 4K Extreme Through an Akitio Thunder2 (same kind of thing as the Sonnett).
It works well. The one issue I’ve had is losing audio from it if I try to run Blackmagic’s Desktop Video driver/firmware package past version 10.1.2. That could be because I’m running it from a Thunderbolt 1 port, or because I’m running it in OS X 10.10.5. But as long as I stay with that version of the driver, it works great and lets me run my Mackintosh with a pair of GPUs.
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Thanks Shane and Glenn. In the end I left Avid on this. I got an AAF (linking to the original media into Resolve and reconnected the media m manually from there, before carrying on in Premiere. I wasn’t 100% confident that the folder structure I had was the same as what the other editor had (another post house had been involved at some point as well)
I think the editor who sent me the .avb files and myself have learned something the hard way here. An AAF with truncated media probably would have been easier, but you get there in the end.
Again, thanks both for your help.
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Oh how I wish I’d learned that acronym years ago! Thanks Richard.
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I did have a look in Mocha, which I come back to once a year or so. I just find it infuriatingly counter intuitive.
The After Effects Mast Tracker seems to have everything I wanted from Mocha but with a more familiar interface. Is there a lot I’m missing out on?
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I solved it myself so will add for posterity. I had scaled the image and set a couple of position key frames on it too. This was the source of the problem.
To solve it I had to precomp the shot, draw the mask again and reapply the mask tracker in there. I then applied the scaling and position to the precomp and everything worked as it should again.
Seems like an After Effects quirk to me rather than a deliberate feature.
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Cool, it’s a bit convoluted but better than the workaround I’d imagined. Thanks, Michael
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It’s always been annoying that Premiere won’t allow you to change the video card output independently from the sequence setting (which you’ve always been able to do in FCP7), but I’m just baffled by not being able to do it in the Decklink 4k System Settings, given that Blackmagic’s marketing blurb says you can do this.
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Some of the older Decklink cards don’t output 1080p. This isn’t a problem in FCP as you can choose your video output independently from the sequence preset; not so in Premiere. Try creating an interlaced HD sequence and seeing if the footage will play in that.
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Hi Paul,
Very belated, but just wanted to say thanks for the response on this: it came in just in time to save me spending hours troubleshooting in the middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia.
Had to use Premiere in the end: not ideal but got the job done. Thanks again.
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Thanks for the advice. all. Sorry I couldn’t put a framegrab up but the production guys here were a little twitchy about me putting up anything for the rushes (I don’t think it’s from The Dark Knight Rises though- unfortunately)
I’ll have a look at all the plugins and see if I can find something that might work. Basically I don’t want to rotoscope too much if I can help it… Doing far too much of it at the moment!
Thanks again