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Josh Haggard
January 31, 2012 at 10:49 pm in reply to: HyperDeck Studio – Supported Playback Formats

For those interested I spoke with BlackMagic and they confirmed that playback only supports uncompressed or DNxHD 220x.

Technician said a transcoder might be able to convert a ProRes file to DNxHD but didn’t want to guarantee it as all their testing had been done on files either recorded on the HyperDeck studio or used on an NLE where that format was native.

He also said that ProRes was the 2nd most popular codec request after DNxHD, but it wasn’t very high up in their priorities.
Josh Haggard
January 25, 2012 at 6:15 pm in reply to: Streaming over 4G – Bonded Cellular Solution

Thanks, but I believe the Teradek includes mandatory encoding (which we don’t want) and also only allows the connection of one modem.

Further search for bonded solutions led to the Peplink Max. It is $2000 and can bond up to 7 internet connections. It requires an additional peplink balance router which costs around $1400. The closest thing I have found so far.
Josh Haggard
October 26, 2011 at 3:04 am in reply to: Dear Blackmagic Support….

I’m having the exact same issue.

Bought a Lenovo K330 this afternoon to do some live streaming but it and the Decklink SDI card don’t seem to be compatible.

Lenovo K330
Decklink SDI card
BlackMagic 8.2.0.0
Removed all extraneous PCI devices
Firmware doesn’t update
Media Express opens but doesn’t display anything
Josh Haggard
July 31, 2011 at 7:24 pm in reply to: ProRes LT to H.264 – How to reduce compression times?

I have a 500GB G-Raid Firewire800 drive. I hadn’t been using it as I have ample space on my 500GB internal drive.

Why is using an external drive recommened?
Josh Haggard
July 31, 2011 at 4:40 pm in reply to: ProRes LT to H.264 – How to reduce compression times?

Thank you for the reply. You comment:

I think you’ll probably see best results exporting a movie at Current Settings onto your external drive, then going to H.264 through Compressor. In Compressor you should exporting to a either a different external drive or your internal drive for best performance.

I am currently using my internal HDD as the scratch disk – no external drive is used anywhere in my workflow. Will using an external firewire as you suggest speed up conversion times?

Is it generally advisable to always use an external drive as the scratch disk?
Josh Haggard
July 17, 2011 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Repeating Transitions – Workflow

Worked perfectly – thank you
Josh Haggard
June 15, 2011 at 10:10 pm in reply to: Workflow – 60p to 30p for sport slo-mo

Thank you.

I think it is gonna be a case of:
editing the 60p footage in a 30p timeline
media managing into a new project and recapturing only the relevant clips
Duplicating the .movs of this project .
Conforming the duplicates to 30 fps.
Importing the duplicates.
Using in the 30p timeline where appropriate.

My word.

Thanks again.