[Igor Babic]

Yes, definetly Adobe has put out support for QT projects. But on the other hand, I was affraid of uncompressed just like you. I was working in MJPEG on various boards since a Premiere 4 so thats the only way for me also. Buy a cheapest BMD board that works for your workflow and put it in some Xeon machine and give it a try in uncompressed. For a start there is no need for raid. Experiment a little and if this is the right thing buy everthing else. If you can recapture than is not so scarry even if you have couple of hours of footage. Quality of uncompressed justify every investment in it. My work is under hour infomercials, and short 10-30 sec comercials and all with lots of compositionings. I have notice that my final product is sharper than ever and has no problem with flickering when you put scaled digital fotographs on timeline (thats most of staff that I do. With Xeon machine and Premiere Pro 2 I am about 30%-50% more effective then with Premiere 5&6, and everthing I make looks better.

[Igor Babic]

Marc, it’s a Real Time capture on XP if you are using SDI or YUV or composite input from BMD cards ( depends of what type of card you having)! The only draw back is you have to capture outside of Premiere Pro, and without batch lists. (Decklink capture utility has RS 422 machine control). Another draw back is that you can’t capture from firewire to Pjpeg. There is no mather what extension your captured file has, as long as everybody that use those files have QT instaled.

[Igor Babic]

You can capture to Photo JPEG on a PC with Decklink in quicktime thru Decklink capture utility. But there is no batch capture. If you have to capture multiple clips you must do your own list of time codes and put it manualy. You can’t capture to QT in PPro. In Premiere Pro 2 in uncompressed timeline you can use those clips and they are RT like every other file on your timeline uncompressed or DV and you can also mix them together. There are some small things to consider like audio asio driver that premiere pro have to use and field order of DV, but now is time to use it if you must. On a recomended 75% compresion ratio Photo Jpeg is 30% smaler in file size then DV, and 10 times smaler then uncompressed. This quality is somwhere between DV and uncompressed. Diffrence is most obvius in still frames, where uncompressed is far superior. Diffrence to DV is most obvius in a clips with angled thin lines. DV looks jagged, Pjpeg don’t. Both of them are little blury against uncompressed and uncompressed is razor sharp without flicker. I am using PJpeg for archiveing, but belive me when you see uncompressed you will definetly buy more HDDs.

[Igor Babic]

Bob.
RS 422 interface for DPS PVR was having VTR emulation as a player. It has a switch on it. But is useless without his own propriatry player software.
I like to see that in Decklink software control also, together with playlist/batchlist.

[Igor Babic]

Hmm…
I have done this: Put a cursor at black part of timeline, mark in point 4 frames earlier on tape in export to tape window, autoedit.
I have not noticed eating of first few frames, and as I recall that works perfect in PPro 1.5. I will doo some further testing at monday.
Thanks Shane, I will report you.

[Igor Babic]

Here is what I am doing for Betacam SP.
1KHz with Bars peaking at -9dBfs
Programm peaking at -0.1dBfs
Master out PPro slider at -9dBfs
This also means that from your editing app kHz tone goes out at -18dB
and programm goes at -9dB

In this situation readings on Betacam SP VU are: 1kHz is at 0VU and programm on peaks goes “little” over 3dB VU.
This is also VU readings from tapes that I receive from international brodcasters on Betacam SP.

All this goes out from Decklink Extreme. PAL, Europe.

If your VU readings on UVW are not like this, then you have to calibrate your input on UVW machine to match those readings.
After all thats what this is all about.

[Igor Babic]

Assemble/Insert starts at in point that you enters but program is recorded 4 frames later. Those 4 frames are filed with still frame from timeline at witch pointer stands before you enter export to tape window in PPro20.

[Igor Babic]

http://www.drastictech.com
try this.

[Igor Babic]

Adrian, try to put qucktime photo jpeg mov on your time line together with BMD uncompresed with your settings “decklink audio”, and you will get no audio at all. If you change to Premiere Pro Windows Sound audio plays fine with mixed timeline.

I have also 2 BMD Decklink instances in sound,video and game controlers, and I was too having Decklink Audio Asio in PPro1.5. I have also problems with first few openings of a projects made with 1.5 in 2.0 all related to audio. I have also disabled onboard audio on X6DAE, and PPro 1.5 and 2.0 have problems with this because decklink dont support asio input wihout video.

[Igor Babic]

I am also having this, but this is my first drivers v5.4 so I can’t tell how it was before.
I think I have also a slow response on opening other programs and importing mpg movies in PPro. My old P4 system has much quicker response.

X6DAE, latest nvidia drivers GF6600, Dual VGA, DLExtreme

Anyone to confirm this?