Jason Levy
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Thanks Dave,
Yes we will shoot SD, No budget for HD. Ok clearly it is better to shot in 16:9 anamorphic but to scan it down to 4:3 one is losing data because of the cropping.. therefor you end up with a 4:3 version that is of less definition than if one had originated in 4:3.. but is it of acceptable quality? how much worse can it be? Is this something that people are doing much?
Basically I’m not sure that the broadcaster who will get the 4:3 will accept a picture that is of lower definition. Guess I have to ask them.
Thanks for the input.
Jason
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Can’t help much with the technical aspect of this.. but for what it’s worth I will offer this advice: that a very helpful thing to do is too take some time and get the person who is actually going to evaluate your tape on the phone, find out what they are really looking for and then you can arrange to get it with out much guesswork.
We do a lot of post in-house on a decklink setup.. not HD though.. and i find that people will generally help you if you can get ahold of them. Perhaps the guy will not speak english but you never know.
Good luck,
Jason
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It’s not too late at all because the project is still in the planning stages. But were I to shoot anamorphic how do I do the 4:3 version? Seems to me that I have to then crop the widescreen version and blow it up.. not very good at all, no?
Jason
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You are running your Y (luma) signal through the reference first… is that supposed to work? why don’t you try using the y out of the decklink card for ref in on the deck. Set the y out to output black on capture.. (in your os x system settings decklink pane)
Just a shot in the dark.. Good luck.
Jason
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One of our systems is just the same as yours and it’s always worked well. I’d have to concur that this sounds like a hardware problem not a config problem.. Good luck. It can work well. Maybe your dealer has a spare card and harness you can try to swap in… easy way to see if that’s the problem.
Hope you get it solved soon.
jason
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I think the trick may be that you still have to feed the video input a signal whether you record it or not for it to work .. I seem to recall reading that somewhere. haven’t tried it.
Jason
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Yes, i know the one you mean. My buddy bought that package.. very unfortunate what happened.
jason
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Yes, you can do it in one pass. You only have to set up the two extra outputs in FCP in your sequence settings. Works nice.
jason
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yeah cool. You had asked if there was a known conflict with the UL4d driver and decklink… not that we have experienced … so i thought it might be helpful to mention that.
jason
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sorry can’t help much except to say that we have the UD4D card in a G5 dual 2 and it seems to be working well. We are using it with a Media drive.
jason