[Jeff Brown]

I only do NTSC, but my Extreme is about 10 IRE low on capture. That is within the range correctable by the proc amp controls, at least.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Well, about all I do edit-wise is animation layback and clip capture for motion graphics, so I guess I can live with Premiere for a while…
Thanks for the input.
-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

I suspect the “desktop output” for the Decklink is enabled. Go to the monitor properties (via your SDI monitor) and disable the 2nd or 3rd monitor, whichever is the Decklink. (un-check “extend Windows Desktop to this monitor”). Might require a re-boot. I’ve had related issues when updating the DL drivers.

Hope it helps,
Jeff

[Jeff Brown]

I have not done any real engineering tests, but I have to bump up gain (and chroma a bit), and have not noticed any additional noise.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

I don’t know about FCP safe areas, but as far as capturing analog, there is a proc amp tab/function in the DeckLink Hardware Control utility. If you open that and the DeckControl utility, you can tweak the proc amp and see a small scope at the same time (DeckControl/preview), and adjust the levels properly. You should only have to do this once if your tape levels are consistent.

My DL cards default to about 10 IRE low on capture too, but the proc amp puts everything right.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

” the 2 extra bits that the 10bit has over the 8bit is supposed to be alpha channel right?”

No. The difference is extra color depth. I can’t address why you had an alpha channel in your clip, however.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

2 of my favorites are:
The Interacton of Color — by Josef Albers (a classic on color theory)
and
Living Colors: The Definitive Guide to Color Palettes through the Ages — by Margaret Walsch. Fun for inspiration, spiral bound with paintings laid out next to color swatches.

Have fun,
Jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Actually, Premiere Pro (1.5) does NOT work well with this. If you edit in D1 (486), the media encoder will not retain crop settings for MPEG2 encoding, and you get an error every time you try to do the 2/4 line crop thing, and the DVD encoding fails. Ran into it last month. Posted a bug report to Adobe, and no response. Which I have to say has become typical of Adobe of late.

Sorry to be such a downer,
Jeff

[Jeff Brown]

If you want to do it *before* shooting, you can buy/rent an anamorphic adapter. Century Optics makes one; lets you shoot anamorphic 16:9 on a standard DV camcorder (GL1, VX100, e.g.), using the full image.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

and Kristian:
Can we expect FrameLink for Windows anytime soon?

Thanx,
Jeff