Many thanks for the reply. It’s pretty much as I thought. Not crazy about the idea of using one workflow to begin with and one to be able to use the scopes, monitors etc. Maybe I’ll just use HDMI output direct and bypass the Decklink altogether.
Thanks for the reply. I have a Decklink HD Extreme. I have HD to Letterbox selected in the Decklink control panel and it works fine for Premiere. AE’s implementation seems a little less elegant in that you must selct 4:3 output in Video preview and then use low quality to get real time playback but at least it works. Combustion doesn’t have any framebuffer options beyond choosing the make and output resolution. Blackmagic-NTSC is the only one that works for my broadcast monitor. However as I said HD material is not scaled to fit it. I just get a 720×486 piece of it. Can anything be done for this?
It was also one of the selling points for me. Working in SD with a fast Raid (220mb/sec in and out) I did an entire project using the numbered stills import with Targas. It worked but wasn’t pretty. Everytime I touched anything on the timeline it rendered so the time savings was nil. Also sometimes I got droped frames on a particular targa file. Don’t know why. I’m now back to pre-rendering sequences in to BMD AVIs. I’d certainly love a way to work directly with sequences but it seems pretty problematic.
I’m in the same boat. Thought it was as easy as choosing audio 1-4 in the export to tape dialog. Not. It mixes down the 4 tracks to Audio 1&2 on the Digi on output. I’m on Windows using Premiere. Help!