[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

The manual hasn’t been updated for the Mac Pro so please follow the Mac Pro notes which are at the start of the DeckLink Minimum System Requirements for Mac OS X.

Ideally choose PCI Express Profiles number 2 and use slot 4 for the DeckLink HD Extreme card. However you could also use slot 3 as PCI Express Profile number 2 allocates 4 lanes of bandwidth to each of slots 3 and 4 so it should be fine.

Just use regular quality video cables to connect the component video outputs from the DeckLink breakout cable to the component inputs of the SD CRT monitor. Then go in to the System Preferences, click on the DeckLink icon and enable the down conversion option. This will enable you to output HDV 720p59.94 material as NTSC.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

I’m not sure if you have a compelling reason for using the Nitrous but the combination of Final Cut Pro and DeckLink HD Extreme will give you the same quality at a much lower price. It is also much simpler to just work in the one system, ie either Apple or Avid but not switch between them. It’s as easy as the following three steps:

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Edward,

Is it only the display of your desktop that rolls? If so, the solution is probably to set your desktop to the same format as the video that you use in applications such as Premiere Pro or After Effects. Please see Page 11 of the DeckLink Manual which is included as a PDF file in the latest drivers. Does that help?

If not, please provide a few details of the video format you are working with, the make and model of your monitor and also whether you are using genlock or trisync and to which video format it is set.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Svenne,

I recommend you repost this to the Final Cut Pro forum as it does not relate in any way to products from Blackmagic Design and you’re more likely to obtain the answers you need from the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Neil,

On the Mac platform, PhotoJPEG capture uses a lot less disk space than DVCPRO HD but it’s quality is set to 25% so you mind find it a little soft. DVCPRO HD will give give you better results than PhotoJPEG on the Mac. The PhotoJPEG codec is full resolution (1920 x 1080) whereas DVCPRO HD is only 1440 x 1080 for PAL countries. DeckLink scales DVCPRO HD for output at 1920 x 1080

On Windows, Motion JPEG is an excellent codec if you have to work in a compressed format. It is full resolution 1920 x 1080.

Given you are on the Mac platform, I would recommend you experiment with both PhotoJPEG and DVCPRO HD but I think you’ll prefer DVCPRO HD.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

Yes, we’ve just posted this feature in the DeckLink 5.7.2 drivers which you can download now 🙂

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Allan,

I’m guessing that would work or another option would be to use the DeckLink HD Studio card to capture component analog video directly from your camera and then monitor it via the HDMI output of the DeckLink HD Studio.

If you are wanting to output to HD-SDI decks but also want HDMI monitoring, then the Multibridge Pro would be worth considering. It will capture HD component analog and you can then output HD component analog as well as HD-SDI and HDMI. We’ve got a number of different products that may be of interest depending upon what you want to do with the captured media.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Sorry about the funny formatting of the last post. I’m not sure why that happened but I guess it was because the graphics were big.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

We’ll be adding this feature to the DeckLink/Multibridge 5.7.2 drivers which are due for release very soon. The audio adjustment feature for Windows will support the DeckLink HD Extreme, Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Pro which is the same as the support we have added for Mac OS X.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Jasmine,

You are going to need to change some of those connections. Please start by completely disconnecting all of the cables you have connected between the DeckLink card and the deck as that will make it easier for me to explain.

Here is the connection diagram for the DeckLink HD Extreme.

Your J3 deck might have analog or digital connections. Here is a picture of the back of the J3 deck with digital SDI connections.

Here is a picture of the back of the J3 deck with component analog connections.

If you have the J3 SDI deck…

Go to the Video output of the deck and connect the SDI (not SDI Super) output to the HD/SD-SDI input of the DeckLink card. That is the lowest BNC connector shown in the connection diagram for the DeckLink card.

If you want to control the deck for performing batch captures, you will need to connect the Deck Control RS-422 cable to the Remote In (9P) port of the deck.

If you find that the video connection is unstable, you might need to use a stable, external reference signal to keep the J3 deck and the DeckLink card in sync with each other. If you use one of these signal generators, you will need to connect it to the Ext Sync port of your deck and also to the Ref Input of the DeckLink card. External sync is also known as External Reference, Blackburst and genlock.

If you have the J3 analog deck…

Go to the Video output of the deck and connect the three Component output connections to the three Component inputs of the DeckLink card, ie: