Luke Maslen
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Hi Steven,
Our drivers still support Kona SD and you can find the latest information at:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Steven,
Yes it works fine. Just make sure you use the right combination of software together, ie:
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Hi Peter,
The latest information about Kona SD support can be found in the following technical note:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86We continue to support Kona SD on both Panther and Tiger. It is also supported in Final Cut Pro HD v5.0 as well as the previous Final Cut Pro HD v4.5. Please check the technical note as it details which versions of drivers to use with FCP5 and Tiger and which ones to use with FCP4.5 and Panther. We recommend avoiding Mac OS X 10.3.9 if possible. Use either Mac OS X 10.3.8 or Mac OS X 10.4.1.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi John,
QSDI is a compressed video format which is transferred through SDI connections. DeckLink cards use uncompressed SDI and will not accept compressed QSDI data.
In any case, if the DSR-1500 already has the optional board with SDTI (QSDI) ports, it should also have normal SDI ports which you can happily use with DeckLink cards.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Matthew,
Adolfo has covered some tricky issues which might explain your problem but, as he said, the best thing is simply to use a Blackmagic NTSC DV50 or Blackmagic PAL DV50 easy setup. One nice thing about this is that if there are any field inversion issues, the DeckLink card will send the correct field order to tape when you output to the Betacam SP deck.
It is not necessary to undergo the laborious task of rendering your DV50 material to 10-bit as you can simply play your DV50 material through the DeckLink card and it will output as uncompressed video and audio on the fly.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Bob,
As you have suspected, the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A does not support assemble edit. Some older DVCPRO HD decks did support assemble edit, eg the AJ-HD150.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Matthew,
[Matthew Ingram] “Sound Input was set to digital as was the video (embedded audio obviously).”
Where was this setting configured? It should not have been necessary to configure anything if you chose one of the Blackmagic NTSC or PAL easy setups for use with your Digibeta.
Your system configuration seems OK to me although I have not upgraded from Mac OS X 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 due to a number of strange reports on the Internet about v10.3.9.
My guess is there is some issue with the audio file you have been provided. Try using QuickTime Pro to export the file as 48kHz and then use the exported audio file in your FCP project. My guess is that this might overcome whatever problem there might be with the audio file.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Jeremiah,
There is a good chance that the two cards will conflict as they attempt to carry out the same tasks at the same time. For example, both cards have an extended desktop and I can imagine a clash between both cards wanting to extend the desktop at the same time.
Traditionally there have been problems simultaneously running cards from different manufacturers in the same machine and I have no reason to believe that these problems will have gone away.
Having said that, there is nothing to stop you trying both and, if it doesn’t work out, just remove one or other card and run the associated uninstaller.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Chris,
[Post Office Video] “1) Studio has a built-in syc generator. Does it directly provide syc to itself or do you have to loop to the syc input?”
I believe you will need to loop it.
[Post Office Video] “2) Does it generate tri-syc for HD?”
Yes.
[Post Office Video] “3) Does the DVI output scale images so I can see SD video full screen on an LCD monitor- or will it be tiny?”
That is still up for debate. On HDLink, we offer 1x and 2x display of SD when using an LCD monitor with an adequate resolution for dislaying 2x. That’s nice because it’s pixel for pixel and SD displays well at 2x on a 23″ 1920 x 1200 display.
The DVI-D output of the Multibridge Studio can support much bigger monitors including the Apple Cinema HD 30″ display so we’re thinking of providing scaling so you can display SD using pretty much all of the screen. Do you think that 2x scaling is still important or is it just important to scale up the SD image to fill the whole LCD display?
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Kevin,
If you’ve captured to the Apple codec, removed the Blackmagic codec, and yet an exported file appears darker than it should, then the problem is unrelated to the Blackmagic codec as it isn’t even in your system. I’m not sure what’s causing your problem. You could try taking the clip from FCP, open it in to QuickTime Player Pro and then export it. Does that overcome the problem? If it does, then the problem might be specific to FCP. If it doesn’t, then the problem is more general.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design