[Kaspar Kallas]

Is this fo HD or SD media?
id HD jpeg seems more viable in SD jpeg is still better than DV and compresses much faster – true it is also much larger than H.264 but you can edit it in FCP with no hang-ups

if you need totally loosless compressed codec then sheer seems pretty good as well – I archive my film DI @ HD res in sheer codec – cuts the file size half but retains full qualty and supports 10bit

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

I think the problem is that BM card cannot read TC from SDI but only from 422 controll!?

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

If you work with uncomprssed timline then balckmagic design has decklink cards wich are rather inexpensive

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

If you are doing 8 bit 24fps 4:2:2

You are @ the limit so in the begining of the disk it might even handle – I have two striped 300GB disk and I have plyabakc for about 20min or so – but nothing that I would work with

If you are looking for a cheaper solution look @ transintl swift data 200 and sonnet 4+4 card

then you can have decent array inside yer G5

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

Going from old memories when I had the time to test my apple and hdlink combo I think 24 looked better than 25p but 30p was crisp clear – I leaft @ that and started working on the unit I do work in PAL country so I am not too happy about it

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

I am sorry
I havent cheked how things are done in FCP 5 but int FCP 4.5 yes you could choose blackmagic for effect handeling and yes there are hardware aplications on the card for CC tools

I dont know how the things work under the hood – what I do know is that I have set the effect handeling to FCP all other than BMD 8 bit 2Vuy codec and when I remove the card – no longer are CC tools realtime – not to mention any HD monitoring

I heard the monitoring is now OK on cinemadisplay so only thing we need is someone without the hardware to try uncompressed 8 or 10 bit 1080i/p CC tools and we should have an answer?

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

I am sorry
I havent cheked how things are done in FCP 5 but int FCP 4.5 yes you could choose blackmagic for effect handeling and yes there are hardware aplications on the card for CC tools

I dont know how the things work under the hood – what I do know is that I have set the effect handeling to FCP all other than BMD 8 bit 2Vuy codec and when I remove the card – no longer are CC tools realtime – not to mention any HD monitoring

I heard the monitoring is now OK on cinemadisplay so only thing we need is someone without the hardware to try uncompressed 8 or 10 bit 1080i/p CC tools and we should have an answer?

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

in my prefs the legacy play out is gryed out
so at least in beta it does not work

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

Actually NO
the color corrector is built into the card and yes you can make realtime CC on they fly even in HD with the exception on 4:4:4 RGB format

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

You see the intralcing because of the pulldown the apple display can show only 60fps anything other than that will be pulled down
I dont know the extac pulldown pattern for 25fps but 24fps should use 322!?

-Kaspar