David Mack
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I’ve done a little more testing. If I put a still image on the timeline it shows it at a certain brightness. Then if I convert this still image into a BMD avi, it displays at a completely different brightness. I can’t be the only one suffering this? Got to say that every time I have to use the Black Magic Editing system I end up feeling utterly dissappointed. It really isn’t the system I thought it was going to be. Any help appreciated. I’m using 6.4 drivers on a Multibridge Extreme (yes, the disontinued one!) I don’t mind going to 6.6.2 drivers IF it will help but I’ve had so much grief over features breaking in newer releases I only want to do that IF it really will help!
Please someone…..
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Hi Kristian,
Found it. Audio Hardware in CS3 preferences – I had Default Device set to “Premiere Pro Windows Sound”. With that setting, everything works, except with a 5-ish frame delay on the audio. Changing it to “Decklink Audio” as the default cures the issues. Thought I’d pop it here incase anyone else ever had the issue.
Thanks for you time in any case. Good to see you guys regularly jumping in to help people out.
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Hi Kristian,
I’m going out DVI to an LCD monitor for video and the analogue XLR’s straight to monitor speakers. Not sure what might have caused it (maybe an update or something) as it didn’t used to happen. I can’t figure out when it started as a lot of my work is pure animation with no sound.
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Also, you need to install CS3 to it’s default location or it won’t work. I had to do several installs before I got it working – save yourself the hassle and do default location installs for both CS3 and the BM software.
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the info so far – I appreciate it. One last question, if I can…. I notice there’s the media cache in the scratch disks section that you’ve described but there is also, elsewhere in the preferences the “Media Cache Database”. What does this contain? Should that be on the RAID? I take it it’s a global database that’ll contain data(?) from ALL your projects? So, what does it do?
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What about the media cache? Doesn’t it hold data related to HDV mpegs? In this case, does that data need to be rapidly accessed as part of HDV playback/capture? Lastly, the Media Cache Database – What exactly does that hold – any need for speed access to this database?
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It just doesn’t feel right. The project file (*.prprj) sitting on a striped RAID? Also, the DVD encodes don’t need the RAID performance and so take up valuable RAID space. Le t me rephrase….Which of the files/folders I mention NEED to be on the RAID? Worst case, I don’t mind manually setting the scratch disk locations at the start of each session (why oh why can’t they be saved in the project????).
Is this how everyone sets it up? Any other systems?
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Solved (thanks to a chap called Mike). It seems that CS3, unlike CS2, has the deinterlace box ticked by default in the media encoder output tab – thus removing half of your data (and then doubling that half up). This leads to low quality encodes when using progressive media. It’s useful in some cases but I’m not convinced it should be the default setting – beware you don’t have half your footage thrown away!!!
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Issue was that CS3 seems to, by default, have the de-interlace tick box ticked in the encoding output tab (to left of main encoding settings at the top). Strange choice as a default IMO!
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Mike,
YOU ARE A STAR! Thanks so much for that. I’ve found the tab you wrote about and that is it! It now encodes fine! Frustratingly, Adobe Tech support didn’t pick up on it despite me saying that it appeared like it had been deinterlaced! I was tearing my hair out so thanks for that, I really appreciate it.