[Marc Bauwens]

Isn’t NTSC upper field first ? Might be wrong but I think it is. But I live in a PAL country.

The blurry look might be a field reversal problem.

What Codec do you use? Try Quicktime Animation, gives great results.

[Marc Bauwens]

P4 3.2 G
2 GB RAM
A SATA Raid with 2 MAxtor SATA 250 GB discs striped in RAID 0

But I think I found the problem, raid not fast enough, it seems to drop frames on playback. When I remove the abort on playback checkbox the video plays but stutters insanely…

I’m going to do a drivetest with the BMD app and will post the results here.

D#mn…. when will i get out of system hell ?

[Marc Bauwens]

Try a plugin called Steadymove Pro from a company called 2D3.
It’s quite nice and might yield the results you’re looking after.

[Marc Bauwens]

At my knowledge not without an interface to that deck. I use a Blackmagic Design Decklink Extreme card. Apart from being a video editing card, it includes an RS-422 interface that allows remote control of Beta SP, Digibeta and any other type of deck that supports this protocol. Natively Premiere can control decks thru Firewire.

[Marc Bauwens]

Not available yet.

[Marc Bauwens]

Actually I use Premiere a lot to output direct to DVD, but the process is similar.

Are you sure this will playback on PAL systems without problems?
I thought that PAL was lower field first ?

Thanks for more information.

[Marc Bauwens]

Are you looking at the timeline on your PC or an external monitor?

If it is the PC is you monitor plaback quality set to auto?
This could be the reason as Premiere the balances quality versus playback speed. Try to put the quality in highest and look if that solves the issue.

[Marc Bauwens]

Brick wall limiting is a technique where you use a device or plugin called a limiter and in turn this device allow you to preset an output level above which the signal isn’t allowed to go. When the exceeding levels are mild, it’s fairly ok, but with material containing a lot of level changes or dynamics the sound appears to be squashed and can sound very nasty. To use with absolute care if you really have no other option.

[Marc Bauwens]

You could use a direct x plugin called Ultramaximizer by a company called Waves. Great for levelling sources with varying audio levels. Their Rennaissance compressors are also great, even with heavy compression.

The thing to avoid above all is brick wall limiting because this really squashes the sound.

[Marc Bauwens]

Aside from the Matrox Axio or RTX, is there anything that can let me use an external video monitor for real time PPro playback/editing (assuming cuts only or rendered effects)?

Yes, a Decklink card for example will allow that.

If I got a firewire card for my DVCPRO deck (it’s the 250 which does not come with one) is there a DVCPRO25 codec for PPro?

Mainconcept makes a DVCPRO codec. For more info go and have a look here:
https://www.mainconcept.com/codecs.shtml#dvcpro

For machine control I can’t help, since I never worked with DVCPRO equipment up till now, but from what I read on the Blackmagic side, the Decklink card can cotrol decks thru RS-422.