[Gunter Puszkar]

Hi,

we noticed a similar issue, and the USB 3.0 onboard controller had to be disabled.
You can check your system with latency analyzer software, to see if your PCI Bus is in trouble. Too many devices on the systems will lead to this…

May be this helps..

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

Hi,

which files types are you using? native MXF, ProRes or Quicktime with DNxHD codec?

How do load the files into the AVID?

Via Fileimport, AMA-Link, or MXF Files into MediaFiles/MXF/1?

Cheers.
Gunter.

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

I uses the following SSDs with no errors:
Crucial M4 512GB (CT512M4SSD2) Rev 009
SAN DISK Extreme 480 GB (SDSSDX-480-G Rev R201)
I always reformat the SSDs after each use.

Do you have a Waveform / Vectorscope with a CRC Error logger like ASTRO DESIGN WM 3004 or Leader LV7700HD or Tektronix? Because I had trouble with a cheap camera, which had crc errors and our monitor ignored that and showed a proper signal, but it was impossible to record that signal with an HDCAM Deck or any Shuttle…
We returned that camera, an got a new one with different firmware so it worked in the end…

the datastructure of HDMI and HDSDI is very different, its needed to process through FPGAs or similar arrays to convert them… Its not like DVI and HDMI, which is pretty similar…

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

I add as working combinations:

ASUS P8P67 deluxe mainboard
INTEL i7 2600K processor or i5 2500
ASUS U3S6 USB PCIe expansion card
Nvidia GTX570, GTX480, GTX580, GTX680
AMD ATI 4850, 5850, 7970

I agree the firmware search and trying with nec renesas was a bit pain.

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

HDMI is possible with 444 RGB at 8 bit or 422 YUV at 10 bit, but not 420.
Its not documented in the shuttles huge manual, which signal is used by the shuttle.
A status screen would be to much vodoo, I guess… since there is the unused DISP button……
And nobody wants to know how long your last take was, or how much is left for recording.
Folks at China or India have thier personal timekeepers…

Do you have a long or bad HDSDI cable used? I’ ve seen my shuttle flashing during a very bad cable. I used a HDSDI monitor to loop an reclock it, and it worked at shuttle.

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

I just remember, how quietly BMD shipped the 2nd Generation of the Shuttle. My 1st Gen. Shuttle is now a paperweight. I DID NOT GOT ANY apologize from BMD nor I could returned it for new one.
The first gen cannot use DNxHD or ProRes….

It could not record timecode as advertised until v2…

So don’t get me wrong: I am happy with many BMD devices like the broadcast videohub, the ultrascope or decklink sdi. I use them day by day.

Cheers.

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

You are asking BMD for FEATURES? Be happy with the unused buttons eg. “SET” and “DISP”, which will never come to live…
I could be more easy than you think…

I have thrown my Shuttles away and use them as SDI to HDMI converter, so cheep.

Put your money into professional gear, not toys…

We all had asked BMD a year ago for similar features.
I guess the HyperDeck series is dead.
It turns out, that the selling strategy is “promise-based” … “It could be a future feature” Which means. “take it or leave it…”
The reason is clear: There is no lower end competition, I mean AJA has all the stuff for a bit more nuts…

Bye bye Shuttle…

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

Hi,

we use ATI AMD Radeon cards together with the Decklink HD Extreme in the Mac Pro. Anything works fine.

But If understand you correctly you want to use AMD card and Nvidia in the same System at the same time??? Thats not recommended by the GPU manufacturers. I think the main issue is not your BM Decklink SDI card, I guess its your combination. Beside of that the PCI-Lanes are limited, so you have to find out which slots has which PCI-Lanes (x1 x4 x8 x16)
The GPU card wants always x8 or x16, the BM Decklink SDI uses x1 Speed

Another issue is maybe the power supply, because these old GTX285 are consuming horrible more power compared to the latest GTX685.

Thats one reason for the “CUBE” PCI-Expander, it has its own powersupply and lets you run 4 NVidia Tesla Boards…

Cheers.
Gunter.

[Gunter Puszkar]

Hi Neil,

we are a posthouse with 10 Avidsuites and 3 FCPs suites, with Nitris DX, AJA Konas, AJA IO Express, BMD Decklink SDI to Extreme HD cards and many Adrenaline DNAs.

We tested our several systems in any combination to check for the benefits of Avid userexperience in MediaComposer 6

Our referencesystem is a AVID certified HP Z400 (2012), with one 6-core Intel Xeon, Windows 7 64bit and NitrisDX hardware, Nvidia Quadro4000, four stripe SATA Raid (around 350 MB/s )…

The most obvious thing is timeline-scrubbing in 1:1 HD and DNxHD185X and Quick Play and Stop commands. An Editor wants a system to stop instantly and with no delay.
The reference system is still instantly doing it. The editors are accepting it fully (And these editbays are fully booked….)
This system is faster than the Adrenaline DNA.
The “old” DNAs can’t handle 1:1 but with DNxHD it was widely accepted, but since AVID MC 6 doesn’t support the DNAs anymore, we started looking out.

Now we thought, how is AJA and Blackmagic Decklink compared this:
We have put the other cards in an identical HP Z400 and tested with same timelines (10 videotracks with heavy splitscreen stuff) and same MediaFiles

1. AJA Kona 3 on Z400: little more sluggish than the reference systems. Editors approved it
2. AJA IO Express: on MacBookPro (2011) even a little more sluggish than the reference systems. Editors approved it as well.
3. AJA Kona LHi Plus on Z400: same like number 2
4. BMD Decklink SDI on Z400: very sluggish, delay of sometimes 2 seconds. > Not acceptable for serious editing > thrown out of the game!

Now I let you know another point: The AfterEffects behaviour.
This is nasty:
What has been tested: Realtime playback of a RAM preview Aftereffects composition.
So we installed one-by-one the AJA Kona 3, LHi, BM Decklink SDI in the same system:
1. BMD Decklink SDI RAM preview running fine at all supported rates with suggested frame rates: like 1920×1080 at 25psf -> Compositors approved it.
2. AJA cards are ALL slowing down at 7-8 fps > unusable > Out of the compositing game!

So we figured out, that AJAs are OK for Editing NOT for Compositing in AfterEffects.
BMD Decklink cards vice versa…

We are using Audio PunchIn quite a lot, so that was the only point for the NitrisDX hardware decision in the past. But in the meantime we figured out, how to use an FireWire IEEE1394 Audio Interface for punchIn…

Cheers.
Gunter.

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany

[Gunter Puszkar]

I returned 2 SmartView Duos after one monitor each time was dead suddenly…

I received a warranty replacement, and now the body color is a bit darker, but the panel is running for now. My guess is, that these monitors are very delicate with handling… don’t think are made for road use…

Gunter Puszkar
Head of Postproduction
PostFactory GmbH
Berlin, Germany