Matt Devino
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The card is the BlackMagic Decklink HD Pro PCI express model
My Deck firmware is (i think this is the firmware info):
Software Version
Front: FP-0.12.A
AV: M1-0.20.K
SysCon: M1-0.12.J
Servo: M1-0.22.-Thanks for your help.
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I was wrong earlier, my decks have always been on auto for reference, so reference was always being taken from input video. Also just some more info:
The card is the BlackMagic Decklink HD Pro PCI express model
My Deck firmware is (i think this is the firmware info):
Software Version
Front: FP-0.12.A
AV: M1-0.20.K
SysCon: M1-0.12.J
Servo: M1-0.22.- -
I’m locked to reference. I’ll try and lock it to the BM card tomorrow and see if that helps.
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My device control is set to panasonic rs-422. Outputing 1080 23.98 10-bit. When I use fcp to control the deck ie rewind play etc it works fine.
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Yea I’m waiting to hear back from Blackmagic. It’s also on the Blackmagic forum, but I figured more people look at the FCP forum on a regular basis. I’m assuming AJA users don’t have any problems like this? Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance everyone.
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Pretty sure they also used one of the Avid motion effects where it repeats 2 frames in a row then skips the next frame then repeats 2 frames etc. I forget what the exact effect is called. You can do it in final cut with strobe. But this combined with a very fast shutter speed is what did it.
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Thanks for all of the suggestions guys. Looks like I’ll be doing a bunch of tests!
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Are you compressing a self contained quicktime movie or sending the movie through Final Cut? If you send it through Final Cut it will take forever as it compresses one frame at a time. Also if you use a quicktime reference instead of a self contained it could take a while too, it has to reference all of the clips and render files and put them together while compressing. Of course if you’re doing a feature making the self contained quicktime movie will take forever in the first place. The last thing to check is the setting you are using, I’ve compressed a few 1080P features to DVD 90-min Best Quality (from an uncontained quicktime) and had it take 16 hours on our 8core with 4 instances. It’s because it’s a two pass process so you’re essentially compressing the movie twice. It looks great though.
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No you’re not going to lose any quality if you do straight cuts. The only reason you would lose quality during a render is if you’re rendering back to an HDV native timeline, and this would be minimal quality loss. What you could do is set your sequence to render everything in “high precision 10-bit YUV” or duplicate your timeline and make this new copy a 10-bit uncompressed sequence, if your system can handle working in uncompressed. I do all my HDV work in ProRes, it’s 10-bit so your renders look nice, but you’ll need studio 2 for that.
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Works fine for me with a Decklink card and Xserve. FCP6 doesn’t have any problems, I actually think it’s more stable than 5 in this format.