[Kaspar Kallas]

@ the moment there is no upconevrsion function on blackmagic cards

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

In RGB mode all renders are 8 bit only in FCP 4.5 (heard a rumor and waiting for my copy but in FCP 5 RGB gets converted to YUV then rendered then converted back to RGB for 10bit support – I even don’t rembeber did I read this somewhere or I saw in my sleep so …. you know what it worth)
In YUV 4:2:2 there is no problem with 10bit
That is also why why avid has no problem with 10 bit in newer systems because we are dealing with YUV data in 4:2:2 and there is no way to use 4:4:4 because no dual SDI input

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

yes it supposed to be slower, but I think it was a bit faster than 3 fps should do at least 12fps in HD res

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

I could do a test, if intersted @ moment the card is in the PCI slot of K8D MASTER F board thats pci-x and regular pci slots and runnining single opteron 1.6Ghz and 1GB of memomry

will one hour of capture be OK?

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

First of all make sure that you have NTCS DV as capture preset what seems to be done, the blackmagic card is not doing anything.

Because I do not have FCP5 on my hands I can recomand to check the problems that others have solved…
maybe you have automic duck installed? heard that will makse simmiliar problem

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

Yes in SD regular PCI 16bit /33MHz is more than enough you can safley use any blackmagic broduct for SD

I have been using declink extreme on regular pci slot with no problem

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

This is not the problem of video data but UI and database of fcp – maybe some improvements on FCP5?

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

Ok this strange
Coming to work on monday, the intelace and the blue only mode work, also I don’t have to restart HDlink when I change modes, the wierdest thing is that my computer and HDLink were online all the time – no restart

The audio problem is unfortunatly still there

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

This is dependadnt of the project and how big the database gets,
I have a documantary that has been in the editing for a YEAR! and the project file is about 150Megs and this has the same problems, but I have another project that is much cleaner and there dosen’t seem to be such hic-up’s

-Kaspar

[Kaspar Kallas]

if you have only one hour of footage and 400GB drives you MIGHT pull it off 1h should be someweher around 700-750 GB
The thing is what exactly are you planning to cut in 4:4:4 what is the source (Viper/F950/Orgin?)
You know that in RGB mode you cannot do anything in FCP other than cuts only? otherwise you end up with 8 bit render…
If you are doing something for TV output that might end up on film then I would recomand doing a short test and see how the different cog’s will work for you, because there is a long way from 4:4:4 quictime to film out (not so much technically any more, especially with Kinetta film recorder that works on G5 and even quictime files) but you still have to work out some quirks (like when shooting raw data, then getting the right log curves to work) also Color Correction to have the most on film, monitoring the CC

If you are not sure about the film part then use 10 bit 4:2:2 because your workflow will be lot less demanding and you dont loose that much – or anything if you shoot F900 and capture staright to disk
If you use (Viper/F950/Orgin) then make it video gamma and CC before the edit and fine tune the CC afterwards and you should be OK

Just dont jump in the water when you don’t know exatly what is in the bottom – meaning don’t make a full feature lenght film just to find out there was logical flaw in your workflows premise

And consider this with adding extra drives inside your mack will cost you 400+(4×262)=1148
if you do most deffinatly need 4:4:4 blayback in RT for more than an hour there is an ugly way to do it cheap pull out of yer mac extra power cord and disks on top of yer tower then you can have up to 10 disk’s “inside” yer mac or buy a burly box what is quite cheap you end up spending about 2-2.5K to whole system and get more preformance then you can imagine

the problem will be no data redunancy – so if you dont have the orignal media on something backet up – it will be pretty much russian rulette, then again add sonnet 8 extrenal port drives and for 1K you can get extranal 8 drive solution then you could do raid10 on tiger

it will not be a neat as X-Raid but it will be cheaper – you just have do decide what is the price of your effort that you will end up investing into this system will the price difference cover for time you loose on makeing something like that?

just “few” ideas on the subject – I have tring to achive something like this for last year and a half – eding up with the system that can pull it off, just to find there are no clients for something like this in this part of the world

-Kaspar