[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Chris,

If you search this forum you will find a thread regarding the audio-drift-issue. Blackmagic has already logged this as a bug and a new firmware version “Beta2” is in the works that adresses this issue.

Right now there is nothing you can do to solve this issue but to wait for the new firmware.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

For me this issue occured with 1080i50. SO it is not only a 1080p30 problem.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

I can confirm that.

We had an event yesterday that was recorded on our new Hyperdeck Studio as DNxHD MXF file.

The event was about 90mins long. After 90min the audio was about 2-4sec off sync. We discovered that when we imported the footage into out Avid MC6 system.

Tomorrow I will test if the drifting occurs when I playback the file in the Hyperdeck itself. I’ll report that when I did the test.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

The Atem TV-Studio offers a H264 stream at the USB2 output. I may be mistaken but I don’t think it is possible to use FCP or Adobe to capture this stream. There is no uncompressed stream at the USB2 port of the TV-Studio. This wouldn’t be possible via USB2 because of the bandwith.

Only the Atem 1ME and 2ME models offer an uncompressed stream via USB3. I heard that it is possible to capture this stream with Adobe or FCP but I don’t have my 2ME yet to confirm this.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Hi,

unfortunately you can only record as uncompressed (huge file – you need a VERY fast disk) or as JPG intraframe compression. There is no option to record in any other format.

Only the TV Studio and the H264 recorder alows you to record as H264 Quicktime file.

As far as I know any other card/switcher will record uncompressed or JPG Intra only.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Steve,

it is not clear stated on the BMD hompage that the MXF is supported by any NLE.

All I can say is BMD answers if you ask them, that you can always use the uncompressed format, which is supported by any NLE. But that is no solution to me. We need Quicktime DNxHD for everyone.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

No, currently no other NLE than Avid MC5 is able to open the MXF files recorded by Hyperdeck Studio.

There currently no way to import the clips into Premiere. There is even no software that can convert these MXF files.

I mentioned in another thread that it would be easy for BMD to release a little rewrapper utility that would simply rewrap the MXF file into a Quicktime file or make a Quicktime reference file that points to the MXF file.

But BMD told me that this MXF recording option is an exclusive workflow for Avid users.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

OK,

I just asked because you lose quality if you ingest the footage via SDI or Component and recompress it to ProRes or DNxHD or whatever.

The only chance to maintain quality is to capture the footage via firewire in native DV or via SDI in an uncompressed format. And if you capture uncompressed you would not worry about some extra GBs of audio.

Sorry – but I can’t answer you initial question regarding Vegas. But you have the choice to deactivate the audio channels in Blackmagics Media Express utility. All you have to do is to click on the “1” and “2” below the audio channels to deactivate audio capturing.

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

Why don’t you capture via Firewire as native DVCam/DV?

Regards

Andreas

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[Andreas Wojtaschek]

This should work if your cameras can output timecode through SDI and you sync all of your cameras first. It is possible to let the Hyperdeck use the SDI embedded timecode. This should be possible to setup by using the Hyperdeck utility.

This is from the Blackmagic Homepage:

“You get support for preset timecode, regenerate timecode from the last recorded clip or SDI timecode, all set via the included HyperDeck Utility.”

The only way to ingest timecode to the Hyperdeck is via SDI. As far as I know. There is no specific Timecode In connector. Only a reference input.

Allthough I must admit I’ve not tried it.

Regards

Andreas

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