Dean Decarlo
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Baz, Are you using ProVTR with the Decklink card? I had ProVTR with an old Pinnacle card with Premiere 5.1 I think. Not sure if I still have the cable that came with it. Didn’t work without that as I recall. I’m guessing you’d have to use a Com port rather than the Decklink built in Rs422?
Thanks.
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Yeah, I had ProVTR years ago and it worked fine. I don’t have to unplug the cable to abort. Taking the deck out of remote and hitting stop aborts. Why can’t export to tape use the same interface that capture uses? Would that really require that much coding? If I’m dumping a whole segment out to tape then typing in code is fine but what about punching in a bit to an existing clip or replacing a bad frame? I have to manually (at the deck) search for the code, write it down and then enter it? Is it this way on he Mac with Final Cut? Minimal interface (at best!), no abort, no on screen information at all seems like such an obvious kludge. Will something be done about this in the foreseeable future? I’m second guessing switching from my Video Toaster………
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While I’m outputting a bunch of stuff I’ll complain a bit more. My digibeta is in the other room so while Premiere is outputting there is no info at all on the screen of progress etc. And no way to abort?!?! How is everyone dealing with this? It’s a huge step backwards to have little to no interface for output. Am I alone in this? Does Blackmagic have big plans to improve this?
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Personally I think the benefit of Quadro cards is dubious at best especially if you aren’t doing high polygon count 3d modeling. I just built some new machines and got Nvidia 7900gs cards. They are really fast. it depends on how much OpenGL you need to use. If it’s for AE and PP I’d say not that much.
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Thanks to all for the replies. I understand that the two formats have the same material etc. but it’s confusing that my movies all say 29.97 when actually I’m working exclusively at 30fps. Or trying to anyway. I’ve been using Video Toaster up until now which is Drop frame only (!) so I’ve been used to everything having a 29.97 tag on it. Problem comes in some of my composites where is it’s setup at 30fps (which all our cg is rendered to) then the digitized footage comes in at 29.97 there is sometimes an interpolated frame if the scene is long enough. Then I have to manually change the footage setting to 30fps even though the file itself has 29.97 embedded in it. Not a huge problem but an inconvenience to be sure. Am I making sense? Does this make sense? Thanks again.
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Yeah, that’s what it’s supposed to do!! On my machine (and apparently others) when you alt-tab, switch apps etc. Combustion does not release the Decklink. Even when Combustion is minimized the Decklink will still have whatever current image displayed from Combustion. This is a drag. It’s a further drag that if I go in to Premiere I can’t play anything at speed since it can’t use the Decklink. I can scrub but not play. I’m very disappointed as I went over this stuff with Blackmagic before purchasing and am now told it’s Autodesk fault that Combustion doesn’t behave properly. With my video toaster I had no problem switching between apps but VT uses a manual switcher to change inputs.
Thanks for the reply.
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Kristian Lam wrote:
“This is dependant on how Combustion is implemented and there’s nothing we can do about it. Please contact Autodesk about this issue so it’s something they need to change in Combustion. We merely provide the video components for them to access the video hardware.”
Hi Kristian, if this is the fact has someone from Blackmagic spoken to anyone at Autodesk about it? I think Blackmagic might have more pull in getting something done about it. It sure would smooth workflow if Combustion worked the way it should. I’ve been working without a problem for years with the Video Toaster but that has a separate manual switcher. Is there any possible workaround for manual switching in the meantime? Many thanks for anything you can do on this.
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That’s not it. I did disable extend. BMD was always 720×286. And there are only two monitors. What should the third be? The Nvidia composite output?
Thanks for the reply.
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Switching isn’t a problem with my Video Toaster but it seems on the Decklink card with Combustion open that no other app can access it. Has anyone else experienced this?