[Mark Luigjes]

Yeah, we’ve have similar setups here. Only a NVidia cards, so yay for Mercury. The video’s play fine on both the canvas and the reference monitor. It’s just the red bar then. The idea that PP wants to render when it’s not really necessary still bothers me though. But thanks.

[Mark Luigjes]

Thanks a lot Walter, it seems to work great. Blackmagic Decklink too.

One question though. To play out via AJA or BMD it’s necessary to choose a AJA or BMD sequence preset. No matter which settings I use, material on the timeline needs rendering (red bar). Uncompressed 8 bit FCP exports in an uncompressed 8 bit sequence play just fine, but PP still show the red bar. It seems that using AJA or BMD hardware degrades the Mercury playback. Am I missing something?

[Mark Luigjes]

Thanks a lot for your reply. VST’s would be an option. Any experience in with some good plugins?

I thought about Audition but it would be faster just in Premiere. It’s for some quick and dirty edits of ENG material.

[Mark Luigjes]

Star wipe, nice! How about a page turn transition 🙂

[Mark Luigjes]

I *always* use 7. Beter export, no controls ON TOP of my video, JKL, command F triggers the play action as well. Love it.

[Mark Luigjes]

Haha, this is great 🙂 It needs a ‘sparkle more’ button to. And a button to go from “I don’t feel it” to “I feel it now”.

[Mark Luigjes]

Hi Alan (and others) and thanks for all the research.

I’m relatively new to the gamma shift issue. After some digging around it seems that the issue is how QT shows some files (as a legacy from the 1.8 vs 2.2 gamma systems). Or does it effect the video files itself?

If not, the problem remains an issue for the viewer, either our selfs or the client. If QT does alter the files, our post house should compensate for it (with a fix or work around) for we are the creators of the files.

Any thoughts?

[Mark Luigjes]

Rafael, you’re right. I must have been living under a rock or something: I was completely unaware of the gamme issue. After some digging around a lot of my past frustrations with FCP and QT became clear. What a complete mess.

So thanks again and I just fell a bit more in love with our broadcast monitors 🙂

[Mark Luigjes]

Craig, exactly my thoughts 🙂

[Mark Luigjes]

We’re using both Bitvice and Episode. Episode is my favorite general purpose encoding software. Settings go deep indeed, but all easily accessible. Working with presets is a breeze. Bitvice is still one of the best MPEG-2 encoders, the quality is unmatched. So, that’s our combo.