Dean Decarlo
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Yeah, I don’t want to have to do that. Oh well.
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Re-activating this thread as I am on a PC using Combustion and am having this same problem with Quicktimes. In my case it seems to be limited to anything using the Aja codec (2vuy). All these clips both SD and HD seem to have the gamma shifted by about 17%. If Animation or regular uncompressed codecs are used then there doesn’t to be a problem. I’ve searched around and can’t seem to find an answer except that it said here that it was broken in quicktime 7? I believe as there seems to be other gamma problems with Quicktime. If I render a test with Sorenson 3 for instance the gamma is much different than when rendered with regular Sorenson. This is very bad. I’m surprised I haven’t found more info on this as it’s been a problem for a while and seems pretty consistant. Anyone know a solution to this one?
Thanks.
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Hmm. I’m on Windows so does that change things at all? Premeire seems to work entirely with avi in Premiere. Thanks for the Framelink idea. I can see how to mount an existing movie as a sequence. That was a good idea 10 years ago on the first PVR card I saw working and I haven’t seen it since. However, I don’t understand how to mount a sequence. If I create a movie in framelink it mounts an empty drive letter. I rendered a DPX sequence there but couldn’t do anything with it. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation for Framelink. My goal is to be able to go in to sequences and fix/edit frames easily that’s why the Targa sequence playback is so nice but it slows Premiere to a crawl when anything is changed. I guess I should render to movies and then use framelink to mount them, modify the frames and then get framelink to write the movie back out? I guess I’ll have to poke around and figure it out unless someone can point some documentation my way?
Thanks.
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Thanks for the replies. Normally I monitor through the onboard computer audio. I generally work with scratch tracks and it has been fine. I wanted to be capture through the decklink and monitor through the pc on board audio. What I did was used the XLR outputs and hooked them up through my monitor so that is working for the time being. I’ll look in to those speakers but I ain’t giving up my afternoon crack hit!
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Yeah, there shouldn’t have been TC breaks to be sure. What bothers me is that there is no way to abort! The decks are in another room so when I try to abort an Output at any point I have to run in to the machine room and stop the deck. Now I find I have to do the same thing on input if there is an error like a TC break. Just seems like the code is not very robust. I’m on Windows and I want the software to be as robust as the same product on the Mac. If not then they should not advertise it as fully supporting both OSs! The Toaster has a full input /output interface where you can stop the deck at any time, view the output of the deck through the computer monitor on output or whenever but then again so does just about any other pro app I’ve used. This isn’t new technology features I’m asking for. Really basic stuff. Surprised there aren’t more posts about this.
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Even 4 WD Raptors?
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Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 using the built in SATA controllers and Intel Raid manager. I tried a 4 disk Raid 5 and read was over 200 MB /sec. but write was like 20 since it was software Raid. I’m using an extra drive to throw stuff on to for short term backup since I’ve had a bunch of Raid 0s fail on me in the past. This setup seems good for SD and I guess I’ll have to see how it handles HD when the time comes. I doubt storage is going to go up in price. I know Sata drives get slower vs. scsi as they fill up. How accurate is that disk speed test? I’m interested in that Raid 5 setup that was mentioned. I’d love to have a fail safe set up.
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The Cal-Digit site reports that the S2VR HD gets 226 read MB/sec and 216 write MB/sec on th Blackmagic disk speed test. I have 4 Seagate 320gb 16mb cache drives Raid 0 on a P965 motherboard and get 291 MB/sec on the Blackmagic Disk speed test. I haven’t done any HD yet but should I not believe that my system could do it? It’s working great for SD.
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From what I’ve been reading the 7900Gs is the price performance leader. Just got two and they are pretty sweet.
Check out Toms
https://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html?modelx=33&model1=529&model2=584&chart=230
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Anyone from Blackmagic care to chime in as to whether we windows users will get a decent export to tape module? Very important to me.