[Brett Howe]

You should be able to use a widescreen preset, and when you import your footage, right click – interpret footage – square pixels!

Thats it!

Good luck

[Brett Howe]

Hi David

I have not tried this myself, but it just occured to me while I was reading your thread. Have you tried the folder method, onto the timeline, then create a new sequence, and nest the original? This would enable you to edit like normal, without having to pre-render to BM AVI’s. Your suystem should be grunty enough for this…. I’ll give it a go myself when I have a chance.

Brett

[Brett Howe]

Thanks Luke

Did you manage to replicate the problem?

Brett

[Brett Howe]

Just a follow Luke.

It’s just the Blackmagic 16bit 4:4:4 and Motion JPEG codecs that are missing.

Cheers

Brett

[Brett Howe]

Thanks for the quick reply Luke.

After effects has them all there, no problem. We’ll just talk HD for now, as that is my problem.

Procoder has only the HD 8bit 4:2:2 codec, but it just comes out black! Also the AVI frame rate is limited to 30fps max!

We did get virtualdub to work, finally, but from an HDV file, it took foorrevveeer….and didn’t deinterlace so well.

I’m not sure what the issue is.

I know there’s hardware solutions around, but we’ve already spent plenty in that department.

Cheers

Brett

[Brett Howe]

If you are only running one drive in your machine you are in for troubles.

Having Premiere, your Operating system, your premiere capture and transcode files all on the one drive is not the way to go.

Yes you can capture MJPEG to one 7200 rpm sata2, I’ve done it myself a few times, but that drive has to be free to capture, and capture only!

Het yourself a second capture drive, at the very least.

Cheers

Brett

[Brett Howe]

Mmmmm…fields.

I am using 5.8 drivers….don’t fix what’s not broken was my thinking in the middle of a series. I have just finished the last show, so it’s time to re-visit the driver issue.

I have noticed in the 5.8 drivers, that when importing a DV clip in to a MJPEG upper field dominant project, the fields are automatically dealt with, and there is no stutter. There is a catch though. When this happens in real time, it looks like it uses your CPU to do the job…which in turn gives you less headroom for premiere to do it’s realtime audio mix, resulting is less than satisfactory sound. Maybe this is why they have taken this feature out. It’s what I would have requested.

Brett

[Brett Howe]

This is dissapointing. It seems to me it’s just a matter of a driver. Anybody from BM care to respond?

Cheers

Brett

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd

[Brett Howe]

Thanks Bob. It is a pro deck, and I have had some success using the 422 serial connector talking to the serial “REMOTE” connector on the VTR. IT all works fine using the BM deck control Application. Unfortunately I’m using premiere pro 1.5 and Quicktime isn’t really an option.

So it seems it’s the deck control in premiere where I’m having the issues.

Any ideas?

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd

[Brett Howe]

OK

Forget the SDI Audio Stuff. It’s an issue with the deck!

Here’s one for you though.

My DVCpro has remote and RS232 serial jacks!

The decklink has RS422. I have set the DVCpro to OTHER (sony) as opposed to Panasonics own funky serial language.

Do I just run an RS422 serial cable to the remote (they match) or do I need to convert from RS422 to the older 232 format. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Did you get all that!

This is all in the hope of getting timecode and deck control working.

Cheers

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd