Jonathan Smiles
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Your output settings are wrong in FCP. If your video output setting is not suitable for the video properties of your sequence, FCP will render single frames so you see it on the SDI output, but when you hit play it freezes.
Use the appropriate Blackmagic Easysetup and everything will be set back up.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
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Erik,
Take a 4:2:2 single link HD-SDI feed from your HDCAM-SR deck and it will work, use the Blackmagic HDTV 1080psf 23.98 – DVCPRO HD easy setup if shot progressive and the straight non psf seup if shot interlaced (unlikely).
As ever test the production process end to end and do a test edit, do a little edit using footage from a a couple of tapes in the DVCPRO-HD offline, using media manager make an “offline” using Blackmagic HDTV 1080psf 23.98 – 10bit RGB 4:4:4, connect to the HDCAM-SR in 4:4:4 dual link, batch capture the footage in at full quality and confirm everything works as you expect.
As you are using media manager, it freaks with time remapping so do fancy stuff online. Do a search for media manger in the FCP forum and over at LAFCPUG.
I do a lot of HD used as offline/digital rushes for 35mm features and know you are going to have an interesting dilemma about upgrading to FCP5 in the coming weeks, tough call as some of new features are great for offline feature work like audio control surface, dynamic RT and multiclip etc.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Craig,
I recommend Denon, no problem with the SPDIF (Pro bits on) from the DeckLinks and have also used Sony DB and ES series units with success.
In a recent installation of a DeckLink HD Pro Dual Link for Iron Maiden I came up against the Yamaha not liking pro-bits and every digital amp in the client’s home was Yamaha, went out and bought a Denon problem solved.
On the big Yamaha units you can see that a signal is coming in but no sound, it’s very much like the consumer DAT units that don’t like pro bits either and is probably some form of digital copy protection getting in the way.
Jonathan
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Use Blackmagic 10 bit codec , the other is the Digital Voodoo (can we type that here Ron?) compatible codec.
Yes you can output multichannel audio with a standard DeckLink.
Make sure Decklink is selected for audio output.
In FCP go to User Settings under the Audio tab and duplicate the default stereo.
Make an audio setup with 4 channels (2 x stereo).
In your Sequence check your settings and select your new 4 channel setup.
Now remap audio track 3/4 to output 3/4 by control/right clicking on the audio settings on the left of each track on the timeline (sorry not in front of FCP, so anyone feel free to correct)
Under audio tools select audio mixer, make sure there are 4 outputs.
If you have setup correctly when you play, all 4 channel meters will light up on the ouput (right side) of the mixer.
Make sure the digibeta is set to SIF for audio input.
Now when you record 4 channels will be recorded.
Common mistake is the mixer has a stereo downmix button, if this on only 2 channels are output, so always check that all 4 output channels are working.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Kevin,
Sounds like 16-235 video levels to 0-255 computer levels scaling.
You can correct this in photoshop using the levels tool.
You don’t say how it changes in brightness.
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk -
Hi Steen,
First I can almost guarantee you have a cable problem, get real HD-SDI rated cables.
Sony gear outputs 25p as 25PSF (50i).
1, Blackmagic HDTV 1080 25Hz – 8 or 10 bit easy setup/
You should change the field dominence to NONE in the sequence setting, this will mean FCP only creates frames when rendering.
2, No problems at all from 3700 HD-D5, HDW-750p, F900, F500.
3, Don’t use the 720P setting use the Blackmagic HDTV 1080 25Hz – DVCPRO-HD easy setup.
As FCP 4.5 does not techincally support DVCPRO-HD at 25/50 some time based effects like duration changes are not smooth.
FCP5 has real DVCPRO-HD 25/50 support and 1440×1080 frame size.
Jonathan
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FCP is a YUV app with the option of 32bit floating point renders, it will render directly to the Blackmagic 10bit codec using all 10bits the codec allows with 10bit or 32bit precision. So no trillions of colors mode.
After Effects is an RGB app and works in either 8 or 16 bit modes, to get 10bit 4:2:2 YUV video you need to run AE in 16bit mode (Trillions of Colors) which the Blackmagic codec converts to 10bit YUV.
Jonathan
Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk