Jonathan Smiles
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What equipment did the rental house have (in detail) ?
What equipment do you have (in detail) ?
Can you scrub the video in FCPs Viewer window without it freezing ?
[Dmitry Klischik] “Is the problem within Multibridge which is not have downconversion capability? “
No[Dmitry Klischik] “Is that possible that multibridge freeze FCP on this matter?”
No[Dmitry Klischik] ” Is that possible to playback 720p, 59.94, on my system without any additional converter at all.”
I think your RAID is too slow, if you have 1280×720 10bit at 59.94 progressive frames per second the video only datarate is 145 Megabytes per second (MBs)
If you speedtested the RAID when empty and got 245MBs, when full it drop to 122MBs, to work with this footage you want a RAID that will do more like 400MBs when empty.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Questions
What country are you in ?
What about working offline then conforming from the original tapes later?
If you are in a PAL country have you considered shooting 25fps instead of 24fps, as this simplifies the production process?
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Both cards work natively 25/50.
The 60Hz limitation is the Dell monitor which is native 60Hz like the Apple Cinema Displays.
[nookynook] “What is a proper PAL-solution for PCIe?”
We have both AJA LHe and Blackmagic Multibride Extreme in client systems here, they both work well.
[nookynook] “Does the Decklink do HDV at all or just SD?”
The PCIe Extreme will do HDV in downconvert mode.
Native HD PCIe Blackmagic cards are coming soon and Multiibridge Extreme is shipping now for not much more than the LHe with KL Box.
[nookynook] “BTW: Anyone with experiences with Quad and HDV? How fast is native HDV-editing”
I have Quad Core G5s here with 6600, 7800 and Quadro graphics cards here, HDV is speedier but still not like running DV. You will get better results by bumping to uncompressed HD for finishing or DVCPRO-HD if you don’t have the storage.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
If you are doing HD work get the HD Pro Single Link as minimum.
You can then use the the HD Pro’s analogue HD output to drive a Plasma, Projector or the JVC HD CRT.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
You audio output device should be set to DeckLink Audio.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
[dane silzle] “1) will MB Extreme function like a MB HD”
Yes, it works as a standalone comverter or via PCIe.
[dane silzle] “should I even bother as I own 3 Decklink cards and one happens to be a Decklink HD Pro single link…..?”
If you have a PCI-X HD Pro Single Link I wouldn’t bother sweating about the PCIe-PCI-X bridge unless you need Dual Link right now.
Simply use the MBE in standalone mode with your HD Pro Single Link.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
[Jan Schulz] “As far as I remember, the decklink was in slot 3 and another card in slot 2, while 4 was empty. But that other card was some kind of interface card with no cables attached. Would it also slow the decklink down if not in use?”
Yep, the other card will be a PCI 33/66Mhz card which will prevent slot 3 running PCI-X 100Mhz, which so the DeckLink drivers detect this and disable HD.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Your HDCAM tape is actually 25psf (Progressive Segmented Frame) and is 25p transported using 50i.
Use the the 25Hz setting and change the field dominance to NONE, so any renders are frame not field based.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Use 8bit uncompressed easysetup.
The DV material will need to be rendered in the uncompressed timeline (and field swapped for PAL).
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
What format are you delivering on?
What are you using for storage?
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk