[Chad Brewer]

Thanks Shane.
Everything matches – EXACTLY.
Once I’m done with the final edit, I need to adjust the speed of the entire sequence. That is the first appearance of the green render bar. At that point, playback is fine. When I go from this state to a fully rendered state is when the strobing is introduced. Thus, I return to the green render state in order to complete my output to tape.

Maybe that sheds more light on the issue. Necessary speed changes are somehow compromising the playback of the sequence?

chad

[Chad Brewer]

Richard,
Most TV stations don’t do expensive professional grade upconversions. Some major networks might have the hardware to do so, but in the end, they want HD delivered for HD broadcast. If they will accept SD content and will upconvert it for you which is rare, they probably don’t have the time or hardware to do a really good upconversion. Nor do most stations care at that point. They are very stringent about what you give them for broadcast. Plus, in the end, most TV signals are MPEG2 transport streams of some sort as ingested into the TV station’s internal system and what the satellites and fiber channels can handle. Some TV stations are notorious for “stepping on” content as it’s ingested into their own systems.
I say, as long as the pictures keep moving and the sound is in sync, we can all “get the picture.”

chad

[Chad Brewer]

Gary, I’m in Chicago as well. We should talk. There could be a mutual relationship here. I’ve got every HD deck in house.

https://www.televersions.com

-chad

[Chad Brewer]

The Teranex fully loaded VC300 is far from a joke. I’m lucky to have one. I don’t see how the mini model could be financially/technically justified.

Amy, I agree with Jim Newman here. Different types of video content (e.g. amount of motion, camera movements, CG’s, etc.) are handled differently by different types of hardware. Some do better jobs than others on certain projects, but my only input is that the Teranex outperforms all video cards and most other stand alone converters (I’ve never seen Snell & Wilcox’s Alchemist though) It simply has tons of options to cater towards whatever video you put into it. As it should considering the price tag. Don’t ask. You don’t want to know.

chad

[Chad Brewer]

Bob Zelin,
I have the Teranex top end box in my broadcast video facility as well as multiple Kona 3 cards. I’ve done all the side by sides one can imagine, including all of my Panasonic HD deck upconverts.

Since I have my OWN conclusions just like anyone else who has the mental capacity to “form an opinion,” I’ll keep them to myself and let the clients shooting DV and upconverting feature films to HDCAM wonder why some shots look “soft.”

The other day I downconverted from HDCAM SR to VHS for a client. Not for screening purposes, but as a final deliverable.
After I performed said task, I went outside and cleaned the INSIDE of the exhaust pipe of my car. It’s real clean now.

chad
https://www.televersions.com

[Chad Brewer]

Yep. Either me or my client is off to Rivergate. I wish this wasn’t the time to be learning, but I have no choice right now. I will probably be going away from Encore soon and moving to Sonic or DoStudio anyhow.

Thanks so much for the help from your threads Eric. Much appreciated.
chad

[Chad Brewer]

Ivan,
read this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/145/866122#866368

I just learned we might not be as bad off as we thought for $350.
I have a similar project as you with an upcoming deadline.

chad

[Chad Brewer]

I’m also potentially screwed now because I’m doing Blu-ray authoring in Encore and having to figure out or learn that it won’t be AACS compliant…Still searching for a solution besides buying DoStudio.

For my DVD’s that go to replication, I use CSS and output to DLT.
That seems to be the way replication houses want things delivered.

Hopefully someone else out there has some more info for both of us.

chad

[Chad Brewer]

DeckLink HD Extreme 3 with software 6.8.8.
FCP7

I setup in FCP for Panasonic RS422 instead of the default Sony protocol.

When I edit to tape with FCP, sometimes the MacPro and the D5 agree to edit to tape and other times the deck reports no edit capabilities to the MacPro. I have zero problems with the same work flow on a Kona MacPro, but also have 4 Mac’s running on Blackmagic cards, so it would be nice to get them all working.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks!

[Chad Brewer]

Jeremy,
I’m not new to the cow, but I’m finally a “registered” user.
Just wanted to make my first post to see how I “look.”

My love/hate relationship with video continues.