[Jack Kelly]

Do you have an external video monitor? If so then you can symaltaneously monitor the video on your external video monitor whilst viewing any scope on your computer monitor.

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[Jack Kelly]

Here’s Adobe’s sales blurb for CS3:

https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativelicense/?trackingid=RXKA

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[Jack Kelly]

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/873155?univpostid=873155&pview=t

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[Jack Kelly]

Hi there,

Is it possible to use a LUT on the AJA card to convert between different colour spaces?

Thanks,
Jack

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[Jack Kelly]

Hi,

Thanks loads for the reply. Yes, I’m investigating RAID solutions at the moment. I currently have a 4-disk RAID10 array using a Highpoint adapter and I’m getting reads of about 120MB/sec. Not fast enough yet but getting there.

Does Sonnet cards work under WinXP?

At the moment I’m using HDV but more and more HDCAM & DVCProHD jobs are coming along.

Thanks,
Jack

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[Jack Kelly]

Thanks loads for the reply!

Cineform Prospect HD does look tempting but I’m put off by the price. I reckon I can build myself a decent RAID array capable of handling uncompressed HD for the price of the Prospect HD software.

I believe the Blackmagic cards can capture HD to JPEG – it’s a shame if the AJA cards can’t do a similar trick. It looks like I’m stuck: I can’t get a Blackmagic card because they don’t support 25p and the don’t do HD-to-SD downconversion on WinXP and I can’t get an AJA card because my RAID array can’t capture 250MB/sec. Bummer.

Thanks,
Jack

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[Jack Kelly]

Hi,

Just a quick update. I received a reply from BlackMagic. Here’s my email to them and then their answer:

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Dear BlackMagic Design,

I am interested in buying a DeckLink HD Extreme. Before I buy, I need
to clarify a few quick points please.

1) Does the DeckLink HD Extreme support 1080/25p and 720/25p? The
/products/hd/specs/ page seems to suggest that it doesn’t.

2) Does the DeckLink HD Extreme support real-time down conversion on
Windows XP? For example, if I was to playback a 1080 or 720 video in
Premiere Pro 2.0 then would I be able to monitor the video on an
analogue SD PAL monitor? The
/support/detail.asp?techID=103 page says that driver version 5.4.2
didn’t support down conversion on Windows but we’re now on driver version 5.9.2.
Does 5.9.2 enable down conversion?

Many thanks,
Jack

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Jack,

Currently speaking we don’t support those formats at all let alone down convert from them. Here is a list of formats supported by the Decklink HD
Extreme:
1080PsF23.98/24
1080i48
1080i50
1080i59.94
720p59.94
720p60
720p50

The Down converters will be made available for windows users in an upcoming driver release.

Joshua Helling
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com

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[Jack Kelly]

Wow – thanks loads for offering to look at it! Unfortunately it will take a few days to get the audio onto my computer – would it be OK if I sent it to you sometime over the next few days?

Many thanks,
Jack

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[Jack Kelly]

Great, thanks for the reply.

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[Jack Kelly]

Hi Steve,

Thanks a lot for your reply. The reason I didn’t mention depth of field is because, as you point out, Super-16mm does offer significantly shallower DOF than a 2/3″-sensor video camera. Also, of course, there are ways to get shallow DOF on a tape camera (e.g. shoot on a long lense or use some sort of “cine-adapter”).

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