[Hkingy]

Hi Luke, a few more things I’m noticing when using Blackmagic Deck Control. If you could let me know if these behaviors seem normal and whether this might be related to my audio problems:

1. When I play back a clip captured with BM Deck Control on my Windows PC, there is no moving video in the left capture window. (On our new G5 with DL Extreme, I see moving video in the left window on play out).

2. On the PC, the default audio monitoring preference is set to “Off While Recording”. I set it to “On” but it doesn’t change whether I can hear from the tape or not. After I hit OK, and I open that preference window again, it has reverted back to “Off While Recording” again. I can’t get it to stay on any other setting. (On the G5, there is no problem changing these settings and making them stick).

3. On the PC, I use Ctrl K to “Capture Now”, there is no indicator to tell me that I am recording. On the G5, when I do Cmd K, there’s a pop up that indicates I’m recording plus a “Stop Capture” button. Is this the correct behavior for the PC version?

4. On the PC, when I “Put” a clip to tape, I set an IN point for a 942 frame clip, my OUT point timecode displays some weird timecode like [00:33:>5] and [00:39:F2] and [00:40:D2] etc. The strange OUT time varies depending on where I set the IN point. However, it performs a correct length video insert edit to tape, just no audio.

The PC is using BM Deck Control v5.6
The Mac is using BM Deck Control v5.5.1

Thanks!

[Hkingy]

Hi Luke,

I forgot to mention I’m using Quicktime 7.1. The settings in the QT control panel are as follows:
Audio Tab
Default Device=Decklink Audio Device
Voice Playback=Decklink Audio Device

I am able to hear audio out of the SPDIF monitors when I play back from Blackmagic Deck Control app, Quicktime Player, Premiere Pro 2.0 and Vegas 6.0. In fact, audio and video are outputting through SDI to my tape deck when I hit ‘play’ in the timeline of those applications. I haven’t tried printing to tape yet in the NLE applications.

It’s when I do an auto insert to tape from Blackmagic Deck Control where the application isn’t telling the deck to record the audio channels. I have pretty much every preference in the PC pointing to Decklink output which is why this is so perplexing.

Harlan

[Hkingy]

I read this post and decided to see if I could recreate the effect. I agree with Glenn that you need to make a large photoshop file of the background to start off with. My experiment was done entirely in Vegas 5. No cameras were involved. It’s actually quite a simple effect. Hope the link works, sorry the video size is so small.

https://mysite.verizon.net/res7b5yh/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/vegasfx.mov

Here’s how I did it:

In Photoshop, I created a 1920×1080 image of the background with all the pictures in it. I also made 2 white boxes where the video will go. I imported that image into Vegas and made it 1:30 in length. My project size is set a 1920×1080. I placed a video clip on a 2nd layer and used crop/zoom to ‘shrink’ it down over one of the white boxes but leaving some white border showing. I repeated this with a 2nd clip on a 3rd layer. I rendered this out uncompressed to keep the 1920×1080 resolution. Close this project.

I opened a ‘new’ project with a canvas size of 720×480, imported the uncompressed video clip into this project and used crop/zoom to Zoom in and appled keyframes to make the pan moves from one photo to another. Render this out at DV resolution or whatever you like and you’ve got yourself an effect! Hope this helps!

Harlan