[Aristides Tiropolis]

To anyone struggling with X58 mainboards and intensity cards, intel has recently released an update for its X58 line of chipsets and it has been proliferating to all mainboard (through bios update) manufacturers not just intel ones.
The changes (errata) are mainly focused on PCIe compatibility so you might wanna give it a shot before giving up.

Cheers.

[Aristides Tiropolis]

Actually the X58 mainboards are a much better platform since they use QPI and not DMI which is slower, they can accommodate more memory and have 36 dedicated PCI express lanes plus 4 more on the ICH10R so the mainboard is very expandable (for things like x4 SATA Optical fiber, more video editing cards etc) and its the same used in the Mac Pro. Plus it will accommodate the upcoming 6 core 12 threaded Gulftown with a simple bios update so it is something to think about… I use my X58 with an x4 PCIe extreme and I have no probs. But I have not tested\used an intensity.

On the other hand if the machine is destined for relatively low end use and just the intensity, you may need to go with P55 approved mainboards by blackmagic…

[Aristides Tiropolis]

I believe the Decklink SDI is a good solution for your requirements.
It doesn’t hardware based down conversions and the sort and it is 4:2:2 only, but at least it is 10bit, so you might find it attractive for its rather low 295$ price.

[Aristides Tiropolis]

Well you can use Apple quicktime on Windows if you buy the quicktime mpeg-2 component which seams cheaper than using the AVS software, I have the component on the Mac side since I use Final Cut studio (it installs it).

[Aristides Tiropolis]

For ultra scope use, I do not see the base model Z200 being covered from Blackmagic (integrated graphics and a celeron ain’t gonna cut it) I see no problem with using the qualified mainboard and graphics card list from Blackmagic.
You don’t even have to build it yourself, you buy it ready made with the components as ordered. You get a 3 year warranty and you’ll surely get it cheaper than the similarly spec’d Z200. I’m not finding (at least from these prelim. specs) the Z200 offering the same value as its Z400 and Z800 counterparts which actually make more sense but not for ultrascope of course.
I actually find the GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD5 one of the most finely and reliably made mainboards in the market you can build an entire BM ultrascope spec’d system at newegg with an i5 quad core (incl. Lian Li case, hdd, vga, ram, psu and all) for about 940$

Just some thoughts.

Cheers.

[Aristides Tiropolis]

You could try exporting an AAF project file and then try importing that from Premiere.

[Aristides Tiropolis]

I had similar issues when I tried to use .vob files for a project I was working on. Premiere CS4 states that direct .vob file editing is possible, but unfortunately not all .vob files are made equally maybe due to different GOP structures and mpeg-2 encoding techniques resulting in the dreaded issue you’re having.

I solved all my problems with mpeg stream clip (on the Mac but it exists for Windows as well) it is capable of reading all vob structures, it knows and provides the choice to display the whole or partial movie (vob_1,2 and so on) rebuilding problematic files and providing a proper in-out scheme for exporting in any kind of encoder resident on your machine. From then on it was a breeze, so you may give it a try:

https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

p.s: For Mac if you install Perian it provides the same functionality for .flv files as well..

[Aristides Tiropolis]

Well, after exporting the video and the audio you then select the two tracks and right-click->link the video and audio. It will then be as if you had a unified clip and will mitigate potential syncing issues and hey, it makes audio editing in other applications a much faster process, especially when dealing with AAF sequences…

Cheers.

[Aristides Tiropolis]

Your log states that you’re running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 it also states that you’re running Premiere 4.1.

There have been reported problems with capturing from various cameras when using SL and they haven’t been fixed yet. 10.6.3 will soon be out so maybe that will sort things out. As always with Mac OSX it is a bit buggy during the early versions, plus I do not think Adobe certifies this version with SL.

Some things you could try:

[Aristides Tiropolis]

The .mp4 is the file format. The codec this camera captures is H264 I’m not sure how well would Premiere fair or even work properly for that matter with putting H264 files on the timeline, actually there isn’t a H264 preset for 30fps progressive (that is what the camera lists) but you could give it a shot with AVCHD 720p30.

I would think your best bet would be to convert the files to some kind of proper editable format in Media Encoder.