[Lars Director]

the easyway out is
trapcode starglow

Or you can use 2 instances of a precomped luma inverted matte result of the footage, and use directinal blur incombination with the screen transfer mode.

cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

The Matrox and the Decklink could be not as compatible it should be. But if the g550 is certified with DeckLink (I didn’t check it on BMD’s website), you could fiddle with the openGL settings in AE’s preferences. Disable all openGL acceleration at first to find out if it improves the stability.

Give it a try, and maybe someone with a g550 will be online soon to help you with the troubleshooting.

Chhers, Lars

[Lars Director]

Select the avi in the project window, by right-clicking it, choose [interpret footage] from the menu, then select [main] from the sub-menu.

in the lower region from this screen that’ll pop-up you’ll find the pixel apect ration. here you’ll find the correct setting for your footage.

Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

CTRL+E (Win)

Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

Rightclick on the DLcard in the ‘device manager’ to disable, same procedure to enable it again, after having some fun fisrt….

Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

HiDiHo Luke,

It must’ve been something weird, as said I always (at least I recall that I always do) restart the machine after removing and/or updating drivers when prompted. I must say that I already did an immediate upgdate to 5.2.2 after the previous post, and it seems to work flawless. The only difference is that I did not upgrade to QT7 becouse we encountered compatibillity issues, on another set, with encoding software.

If something ‘ll turn up, I’ll keep you posted 😉

Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

Thanks Luke,

Yep, i’d followed the procedure including the reboot as discibed. I’ve been installing and uninstalling various driver versions in combination with older versions of Quicktime…. got a little irritated, grabbed an old ‘Ghost Image’ and restored to a setup with driverversion 4.4b8 and the apropriate QuickTime version for that driver and everything works again 😉 So i’ll be toying around with newer driver releases later on, keeping the ghost image in reach 😉

Cheers, Lars.

[Lars Director]

Hi Luke,

Any ‘luck’ reproducing ‘my’ bug yet?

Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

Thanx Luke,

This bug only seems to occur with a DeckLink Pro. A regulard DeckLink card worked seamless (a long time ago) I’ve checked with CD-R backup’s. I experience the bug in both 8 and 10 bit Pal. The bug is persistend troughout driverversions since I received the card in 2004. And I usualy run the latest drivers, as I do now.

Here’s the config, just in case… And I think you guys have something simmilar at your lab
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=124&postid=719949&archive=T
Iwill DK8N mobo, dual 244 Opterons, 2 Gigs memory
600 Gb 4 disk SATA raid for media only (Pal SD)
Elsa 3, Nvidia QuadroFX
DLPro > Pci-X

[Luke Maslen] “Which formats have you tried, eg PAL, NTSC, HDTV1080?”
Just PAL, with a DigitalBetacam DVW-500p

[Luke Maslen] “Were you using an 8 or 10 bit easy setup or something else?”
Just the 8 and 10 Bit Easy’s from the pulldown. Only tinkering involved is the get and put off-set for correct timing with the DigiBeta.

Hope this will help. Thanx to the Engeneers to!
Cheers, Lars

[Lars Director]

Nope, the same as a Discreet Flame 😉