Dale Launer
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The standard Intensity card uses the audio out of the HDMI cable – meaning you use the BM DAC – which can be better.
So I took back the standard Intensity, took the restocking charge hit and got the Pro. Now it’s up and running using the SPDIF breakout cable into a nice DAC. However, the breakout cable they provide looks cheap, feels cheap, and doesn’t work with the SPDIF very well – in fact if you touch it or jiggle it, it will lose signal, or the signal will be very distorted (with a mis-matching impedence like sound – nasty crackling distortion on top of transiets.)
I’m assuming this is an anomaly. I will have to get another cable.
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Sorry, but it won’t work. The Insensity Pro is a PCI-Express card. Your Dualie is a PCI-X machine.
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“…think it’s called doing your research!”
Not exactly – if you send me to a website where I’m sifting through page after page looking for an answer to a question you posed (you in essence are answering a question with a question by sending me on this quest) – so I end up doing your research. If you actually have the answer, simply post it. That’s what makes forums helpful.
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You have to get a breakout cable for the breakout cable. Your questioned is answered in great length at the BM website.
https://www.decklink.com/support/detail.asp?techID=179
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An HDMI component box would work – but that’s going to cost about 300 bucks. The Intensity Pro is less – a hundred bucks more and has both analog and digital breakout. And a simpler solution.
So I’m just gonna trade up.
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Penello – you explain your suggesting by sending me to a general website where I’m supposed to filter through hundreds of pages about – AV guys slipping sync? Do me a favor, don’t respond to my posts. You’re not helpful and you’re attitude is rude.
To the question “why not use the audio out of the Intensity card” – to use the audio I’d have to plug the HDMI cable from the card into a TV and use those speakers (or if it has an audio out – I’d have to cable that to an amp – a rather inelegant setup. Also, I’d rather use my own DAC via the Toslink connection than the internal one in the Intensity. Sounds better.
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you have a kona 2? use that.
Use it for what? I’m using the MacPro as my principle rig. The Kona 2 doesn’t work in that machine.
it’s a feature? then you should have a budget good enough to get a audio sync slipper like alot of AV guys use on their av amps.
Uh, what kind of attitude is that? And I have no idea what you’re talking about – “audio sync slipper a lot of AV guy use on their av amps?” The reason there are forums is to get information, not a smart assed answer.
I believe your issue has been addressed.
Is that right? And just who are you sweetness? Why the snotty attitude?
Dale Launer
writer.filmmaker
G5 Aja Kona 2, Huge,
MacPro 8 core, Final Cut Studio 2 -
I don’t think it is ProRes. In fact I KNOW it isn’t. I did the same thing with an uncompressed HD file – sure enough the gamma is different between the FCP and the QT.
So that’s the culprit. ProRes is innocent!
But something is askew. I’m going to try and see what my other rigs looks like – I have a dualie 2.5 G5 – I’ll give it a go tomorrow.
Dale Launer
writer.filmmaker
G5 Aja Kona 2, Huge,
MacPro 8 core, Final Cut Studio 2 -
you could always try and work out the slip and slip the audio ?
You can’t mean what I think you mean. Then I’d have to slip out a whole (feature lengths) project? And then if I output – everything would be out of sync.
You can change the audio sync in FCP – that doesn’t effect the Intensity card, only any image coming out of the graphic cards dual DVI outputs.
I can’t imagine this to be an Intensity bug – I mean, what would you use the card for? MOS editing? Maybe something wrong with this card, or I somehow crewed up the software installation, or something. We’ll find out! Hopefull it’s something dumb that I did.
Dale Launer
writer.filmmaker
G5 Aja Kona 2, Huge,
MacPro 8 core, Final Cut Studio 2 -
“Make sure your sequence settings are correct (Make sure its set to render 10-bit YUV), and make sure you have QT 7.1.6.”
I do have the latest and greatest QT update. And why would the render settings affect playback of clip that has not been rendered (I’ll try it, but…)
“You said you use a Cinewave…That could be related to your problem.”
That’s in Cow bio – (trying to change that) Haven’t had the Cinewave for a few years (updated that). The files were originally captured via Cinewave. But that’s long gone. This rig (MacPro 8 core) runs “naked”.
Also – again – why would that make the same clip look different on the timeline vs the QT player?
“I just put a QT player window of a clip right next to the FCP canvas showing the same clip. They are 100% identical.”
I just did the same test and there is definitely a difference. Anyone can see it. I don’t know if it’s ProRes – I’ll trying another codec.
Is there a way to adjust playback preferences in QT?
Dale Launer
writer.filmmaker
G5 Aja Kona 2, Huge,
MacPro 8 core, Final Cut Studio 2