[Mark Weaver]

David,
I just added last night a new picture showing the
greening that occurs. It has a frame from the cineformHD
export in the source window of PPro and the original
file from HDLink in the program window. There is clearly
a color change that occurs and since both windows are
open at the same time(one bad and one good) the Nvidia
card shouldn’t be an issue.

I updated my support ticket with this info, but no
feedback yesterday.

https://www.caribeblueproductions.com/AspectHDIssues.html

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

Hey Thanks!!!! Talk about quick support. 🙂
Really appreciate the quick response.

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

David,
I opened a ticket last night and gave them the same
web link. Wanted to say “Thanks” for taking a look at
my issues. At least I’m not crazy on the PAR issue. 🙂
Hopefully the greening is just something simple that
I’ve done. I do have the 709 color space selected in the
playback options.

Will work with tech support.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

David,
I still have not found a way to turn off the overlay
so no matter what I do, the colors are different when
the preview is running.
Also, whenever I export a cineformHD avi using the
Export->movie command it is always recognized by Premiere
as a PAR=0.9 even though it is a PAR=1.2. When I
use the interpret footage to set it correctly it looks
right, but that means the timeline needs to render.
With the MPEG output from CS3 I get flickers in
the video.
Any rendering(AME or Export->Movie) there it a greening
of the video.

Any suggestions… I know… I’ll contact tech support. 🙂

So far, though AspectHD is not usable for me. Dang…

Here is my website showing some of my issues:

https://www.caribeblueproductions.com/AspectHDIssues.html

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

When you say you can’t read the files what do you
mean. Are you trying to open the MXF files with
Premiere or WMP? These files are supported. The P2
Viewer should be able to view them, but I don’t use
that program much so I can’t be of help with it. HDLink
will convert the files to a CineForm AVI and these
files are readable by PPro and WMP.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Mat,
Not only do you need the drivers for the P2 cards,
you need the P2 viewer installed. I’m not sure that
the newest P2 catalaging software works, so you will
have to get the “P2 viewer”. This program has the
DVCPro decoder that (my understanding) HDLink uses
to decode DVCPro files. The output from HDLink is
Cineform AVI files which should be viewable in WMP
and Premiere. In Premiere, you import the AVI files not
the P2 files.(at least until the next Adobe update)

You will want to make sure your settings are correct
for HDLink. Go to the Convert panel and click on the
Pref button at the bottom. Cineform has a good web
page describing the settings you need for 720p conversion.
Will say that I have had some crashes with HDLink,
but need to generate a test case for cineform support.

Hope this helps

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

David,
Thanks for the info about 24p. The blended frames
is exactly what I was seeing in the output. I’ve always been
confused about the use of 24p with DVD players since
it has to be 29.97i for most TVs. What I here you saying
is that the DVD encoding will put correct flags for
the DVD player so that it adds the pull-down. All
that in a little $30 box, connected to a 5 year old
analog TV. It’s amazing. 🙂

Thanks for the help with this. I will be making a
DVD TEST case ASAP. Glad to hear that CS3 fixed the
alpha problem. Didn’t even run into it with CS2, but
I always worked with interlaced video anyway.

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

David,
I will try and come up with a testcase for my issues
with HDLink and work with support. My obligation to
give an example….

So how does one turn off the overlay in AspectHD? Is
this in the “playback options” located on the flyout from
the preview window in Premiere? I’d like to get the best
color I can. I did play with the overlay settings and
seem to have it right, but would like to check it against
the perfect results. The whole overlay concept in graphics
cards has never been fully clear to me anyway.

Yes I am using CS3. I like the idea of output straight
from the timeline thanks for pointing out that the flow
works. Using 24p makes that simple except somewhere it
has to get converted back up to 29.97i. Where does this
occur in your flow? Also, isn’t AME the same software
that is in Encore? I just prefer to have all my encoding
done, by the time I get to DVD create… Personal
preference.

Thanks for the response. I now have more ideas
to try. Just noticed the blog page. Looking forward to
reading through it.

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

Mat,
When I emailed MainConcept about this plugin
a few weeks ago, they replied (after a week I might
add) that there plugin didn’t support CS3. Because
of this, I dropped looking at it. Are you using CS3?

MBW

[Mark Weaver]

Mathieu,
Hi. I’ve been playing with AspectHD and HDLink and
yes it is buggy. The darn thing crashes without any
warning. The best thing to do is make sure you know
what the format of the input MXF files are 1080i or 720p,
framerate and such. Then use the correct options in
HDLink for this mode. I’ve found that HDLink does a
poor job of automatically figuring out anything about
the files. Of course, I am still playing with some
test shots because I haven’t recieved my P2 card yet.
Hopefully tomorrow!!!

Mark