[Alexander Falk]

with decklink drivers 6.3 it is a little bit better.

digital betacam still has 1 frame delay.
betacam sp is sync.
dvs sd-x-way is sync (hard disk recorder).

all machines are connected to the same house sync, the same sdi- / aes/ebu- / rs422-router

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1 x Decklink HD Extreme
1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

i’m still using fc studio 1.
in this version there’s no dvcprohd 720p25/720pn25 setting.
i don’t know if there’s one in fcs2. if there’s one you have to use the final cut setting.
but there’s no video-output.

blackmagic settings containing dvcprohd in their name are settings which enable direct output to the blackmagic-card (no rendering or transcoding is required).

there is no setting for 720pn25 which enables 720p25 video-output.

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2 x Decklink SD Extreme

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4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

i don’t know how framelink works on win.

in mac os x you drag the quicktime (which has to be blackmagic uncompressed 8 or 10 bit without audio) on the framelink icon.
in the finder and on the desktop you can see a volume named like the quicktime.
if you open this you can see every single frame as a dpx-file.

just drag&drop the files to copy to your desired location.

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1 x Decklink HD Extreme
1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

the question is: what are you delivering?

if you want sd-output: the decklink sp is working for you
you can downconvert hdv & dvcpro-hd in realtime to sd with the blackmagic-card.

intensity is only usefull if you plan to edit to hdv-tape.

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1 x Decklink SD Pro
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[Alexander Falk]

if the card is pci-e than you can switch, if it’s pci-x than you have to buy a new one.

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[Alexander Falk]

you can do he same with a timecode identical dub to digibeta.

in my company we have a system called sd-x-way from dvs.
this is a “4 channel simultaneous lossless hard disk recorder to simulate a digibate deck”.

for hdcamsr edits i always use this one for checking timecode accuracy.
take the realtime sd-downconversion-signal from the deck to one channel including tc.
then check the timecode of the first edit.

if the developer of your product doesn’t give you the support you need, you need to create your own workarounds.

by the time you have to be fit to run to the machine room and back to check the result.

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1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

hdv and dvcprohd are 2 completly different systems and codecs.

you cannot capture hdv directly to dvcprohd codec. (excepting via analog composite hd)
in addition it’s nonsense!

if you capture hdv it is native! that’s the best quality for your recordings.

the only thing you can do (depending on what do you want to do with the material) is to keep the best possible quality by doing the final rendering to an uncompressed codec or at least lossless codec.

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1 x Decklink HD Extreme
1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

if you try the blackmagic deck control it has the same delay.

so -> no fcp-problem -> decklink-problem!

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4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

i’m having exactly the same problem for a very long time.
bmd doesn’t reply to this theme if you send them a mail.

if you sett the tc-in to one frame earlier you have are sync at 01:00:00:00 but on the frame before you see the first frame, which you don’t want to see there!

my workaround is to set the playback delay in the device control to +5 (fcp-standard is +4) or if you don’t want to change the device-settings then add black (1sec) at the beginning and at the end and edit this to tape one frame earlier.

BUT that’s not the way you should handle this.
the most important thing when working with video-cards is that they are sync in editing and capturing!

by the way, when i edit hd to hdcam-sr-decks the delay differs in time.
in 90% of the cases you have one frame delay. but in 10% of the cvases it is sync!
that’s completly weird!

please bmd, fix this, that’s the most important issue ever for pro-users!

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1 x Avid Symphony Nitris 1.6.3
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1 x Decklink HD Extreme
1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink

[Alexander Falk]

we have 6 mac pro’s at the moment.
they all have 4 gb of ram built in and the current version of bootcamp installed.
if you switch to windows it only recognizes 2gb ram, no matter how you order them in the riser-cards.

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1 x Decklink HD Extreme
1 x Decklink SD Pro
2 x Decklink SD Extreme

1 x Workgroup Videohub
4 x HDLink