Bill Buchanan
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Luke:
Thanks for your interest. RT for basic effects, i.e. color/ brightness/contrast corrections, speed, reverse, gradient filters, scaling, re-framing…those sorts of things would be very welcome. Also–and I’m a bit confused about this–10-bit rendering would be nice, assuming it has not already been addressed. Reason I mention it is that when I apply an effect to a shot that was captured 10-bit and render it, the render file appears to be 10-bit, according to its interpretation. It was my understanding PPro only did 8-bit rendering.
After reading Peter Corbett’s take on Vegas 6 (he tried it out on his Decklink sys), I’m not at all anxious to abandon PPro now. Surely Adobe will soon announce profound updates/features for PPro. Maybe their strategy is wait for everybody else to trot out their new wares during NAB season, then blow everybody away with theirs. I hope so.
Bill
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Thanks, Luke. Glad you’re back. Unfortunately I’m not at NAB, but I am anxious to learn more about what advantages/features Vegas 6 may provide those of us with Decklink cards. While I’ve done pretty well using Prem Pro 1.5, there are issues Vegas 6 addresses that Prem Pro has yet to resolve.
Bill
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Ron:
I should have mentioned I already have a Decklink Extreme card, running PremPro1.5. But I’m only looking into Vegas at this point. PremPro does provide real-time playback of dissolves ONLY to ntsc/pal monitor via Decklink of 8 or 10-bit uncompressed files. The Decklink does not provide playback of (DV) files when a PremPro project is setup for DV (as opposed it being setup as a 8 or 10-bit uncompressed ntsc or pal or HD project (something Adobe ought to reconsider). The only way to playback DV project timelines is through your graphics card with an s-vid out or whatever that will feed a ntsc/pal signal to a TV monitor. This is why I’m interested in Vegas 6’s real-time features working with a Decklink card.
Bill Buchanan
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Sorry. Wrong forum. Meant to be posted on BMD. Hey, it’s a Monday.
Bill
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Claus:
I (and I believe Peter Corbett, too) wrestled with PPro crashing. I was near the end of cutting a 20 minute film when the crashing began. It actually began after I installed a BMD driver update. Everytime I adjusted the length, moved or brought a new clip to the timeline, I would get the “a serious error has occured…” message. I finally uninstalled that driver update and reinstalled the previous driver. The crashing ceased. I forget which driver versions they were, but they were several versions back.
After the project was finished and output (but still in my system), I reinstalled the driver I thought was to blame for the crashing. I did everything I could think of to recreate the crashing, but it did not occur even once. Go figure.
So, if you haven’t tried completely uninstalling the BMD driver and software, you might want to give it a try. As you well know, great mysteries lie within these very un-finite machines whereby mere restarting solves most problems. Good luck.
Bill Buchanan
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I should have mentioned that mine was a RAID 0 array, too.
Bill Bucanan
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If yours is a gradual slowdown rather than stuttering/dropped frames, then I don’t know. But, if stuttering/dropping frames, then you probably have a problem with your SATA array. I recently ‘fixed’ my slow Seagate SATA array by determining that one of the drives was (or had become) significantly slower that the others. As you probably know, the xfer speed of an array is determined by the slowest drive. I had to delete the array and test each drive individually to determine which one (or more) was the bad guy. One drive Read tested about 20-25mb/s and Write tested about 52mb/s while all the others ran about 60-65mb/s Read and Write. I replaced that drive, and now the array tests at the rate it should.
Bill Buchanan