Justin Goudreau\
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Hey just so you guys are clear, every major network and motion picture company has a YouTube account. This “youtuber” earned over $500,000 last year on YouTube and have over 500 million views. So your Hampton film festival winner that had 15 people in the theater and was cut on whatever whatever pro and you got to do some sweet conforms and maybe even used color once or twice with some curves adjusts and tracked mask, I’m glad that qualifies you as a pro.
I’m actually enjoying using fcpx but I am considering premiere for 50% off and it’s nice integration with ae. But for now I can use fcp7 when I’m in a hurry and want to cut something with my eyes closed.
By the way I’m not attacking anyone but just putting things in perspective. The auteur broadcast editor that needs all his pro crap to make a cut. Let’s face it it’s all bs.
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Decklink will work fine for montitoring out to an HDTV but why are you ungrading the capture process? Capturing via the firewire will give you exactly what is on the tape. I have been using FCP and shooting on the Canon XH-A1 for well over a year abd t has worked flawlessly and renders quite fast.
You can capture 23.976 via decklink if you want though. You would have to use the component dongle out of the cam to the card (the G1 has the SDI out).
You might be better off with the cheaper HDMI card as a monitoring card and continue to digitize via firewire.
All that said, I don’t use Premiere anymore but the HD Extreme card would prove beneficial for monitoring.
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thanks Jason. I’ll look into that.
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Are you using pci-e or pci-x. Most older g5s should be pcix
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crazy. I unplugged a monitor from my display card and the video in on the decklink card came back. Could the pcie cards be conflicting. I have a mac pro 2.66 with a 1900XT Radeon 512 video card (apple upgrade). I do have the pci slots assigned as recommended using setup “2”.
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I’m using the HDR-SR1. It’s one of those avchd with hdmi out. I bought the HD studio specifically for this reason.
I can not get a signal at all from it. Weird that the thousand dollar capture card does not support as many cameras as the intensity $250. Maybe they should have listed compatible cameras somewhere.
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correction. my HD studio cards have XLR audio and deck control. so that is a decent plus.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the HD studio is essentially a Deckilink SP card and an Intensity rolled into one? And did they discontine this model because there was something wrong with it or it just made good sense in their product line?
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I own 3 decklinks sps cards and we just upgraded our computers to intel so I had to buy 2 new cards (pci-e) and decided to go with the HD Studio cards for $1000 each. I just installed them yesterday and then BM discontinues the card and release the same thing but slightly better for $350. I feel like I was just bent over. I know it’s not their fault but that is a crazy price drop for pretty much the same card. Do you think they would hook me up with a free Intensity? Or swap them out and give me some money back?
I know you guys are going to be like that’s the way it goes and 5 years ago you would of bought similar cards for 10 grand but the fact is 3 years ago we spent 3 grand on SP cards that no longer work in the new macs because Apple is always changing their architecture. Hopefully they stay with intel for a week or 2.
Anyway, Grant! Can you hook a brother up?
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I’m in Boca Raton, FL. No offers yet but I haven’t bothered with ebay.
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I think you had it right to begin with. HDMI direct out through Decklink Intensity. I think you can even use an Intermediate codec to edit and export. No time code out the hdmi but the cool thing is you can preview all your clips right on your tv and push play on the clip and hit capture now. I think that will work fine. Only problem is, you probably bought the camera because it writes to hard disk and hoped to avoid the digitizing process. I know that’s what I would hope to avoid.
A codec for the mac has to be around the corner. Good luck.