[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Can someone from Blackmagic please respond?

3 days now that the support page is down or cannot be used. That is a real problem if you need drivers for an important broadcast job and your BMD gear.

Cheers

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Right.

blackmagicdesign.com (without a dash) works but not the support page. If you try to chose a product the list stays empty.

There seem to be serious problems with the BMD website.

Cheers

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

A SSD can be so fast that it blocks the whole cpu bus capacity of your machine. That could cause some problems when the decklink card requests some packets over that bus.

Cheers

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Hi Bo,

I didn’t see that you use the Shuttle because you didn’t mentioned it in your text. But you are right there is only DNxHD in the Shuttle 2.

Please check if you can EXPORT DNxHD .mov files in Premiere. If that is not possible, then Premiere doesn’t see the Avid codecs.

Although I’m on CS6 I had no issues with the DNxHD files in my CS5 setup. There must be something wrong with your configuration or the Shuttle creates some other sort of DNxHD files than the Studio (which I have).

Cheers

Andreas

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Entertainment Producer IHK
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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Unfortunately you didn’t specify what kind of .mov files you are recording. You can record uncompressed .mov files, DNxHD .mov files and ProRes .mov files.

For DNxHD you need the latest Avid LE codecs installed on your system. You can get them free from the Avid homepage.

For ProRes support you need the latest Quicktime version installed on your system.

For uncompressed you need the BlackMagic uncompressed codecs to be installed on your system.

Cheers

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Yes that is a really good feature request!!!

In the EBU we have a similar thing: R128. It would be really nice to have that implemented into the Ultrascope. Actually it will not be possible to do post without that because no station will accept anything that is not R128 ready.

So come on BMD – give us R128 AND A85! It is not that hard to integrate. All the specs are open to the public.

Cheers

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

I would recommend to insert a Videohub into the chain. If you have to reboot the ATEM you can easily switch to a backup source.

Cheers

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Didi you set your Comp in AE to 16 Bit?

If you didn’t then all AE sends to an output card is 8 Bit.

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Hi Ed,

it depends on your DSLR camera if it is possible to record a picture on the HDMI output withous any overlays. As far as I know it is not possible to do that on any Canon camera as there is now way to switch off the overlays. The only camera I know of that can do this is the D800 from Nikon.

It is the same with audio. Some DSLR cameras just don’t embed the audio into the HDMI stream. Your only chance would be to check if there is any menu setting that mutes the audio when recording, what makes sense if there is no HDMI cable connected.

Cheers

Andreas

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Entertainment Producer IHK
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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Matt,

HDMI is also uncompressed. The only compressed output of the TVS is the USB2 out.

You can indeed configure the Procaster to just output one HD stream or any resolution you like. But even with just one HD stream you need a very powerful CPU:

Quad Core i7-2600 series CPU or better
8GB RAM
5Mbps or better upload bandwidth
Dedicated video card, 512MB VRAM
Windows Vista / Windows 7

Check the settings of your Procaster software again and configure it to output only one stream in a resolution that your computer can handle.

Cheers

Andreas

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