[Matt Dowling]

Hi Jason,

Thats our bug and is being adressed in V5.1. What you can do as a work around right now, is put a black clip (slug) directly above the bars on Video track 2 and then apply the key frames and render. That should get you through until V5.1

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Jo,

I will check tomorrow (i have been out of the office for a couple of days at a show)
I am pretty sure it was just a compile error when we did the build so we may be able to do a quick rebuild tomorrow for you guys.

I’ll keep you posted.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Thanks Andy – looks like an “opeteron thing” i think, as it seems the other folks on the forum having this issue all use Opteron.

We will get straight onto this.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Jo and Rich,

Can you give us a rundown on the system specs? We are just trying to see if there is a patten with certain machines to this as many users don’t have this problem. Nor can we reproduce it here.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Yves,

[Yves De Muyter] “have been trying this release. I don’t have the impression it works like it should be:
1. Created a new project, with the BMD DV PAL preset 4:3
2. I captured some footage that aired yesterday from a BetaCam SX, SDI
3. I moved the captured media to the timeline in premiere. When I run the timeline, it seems like the fields have inverted (lower-field/upper field mixed).
4. I exported that media back to tape. The fields were inverted !!!! So it’s not that the “preview” has this fields problem, which would be understandable for a CPU-load perspective, but it is also like this when you dump to tape.

We have not seen this in house (i am not disbelieving you are seeing it)

When I try to invert the fields, to make things right again, it doesn’t work until I force the media to re-render. As soon As I try some effect on it, the effect itself clearly shows inverted fields.

Ok that maybe a bug – will get the guys to check further into that.

I tried different approaches to invert the fields:
1. right-click and in the field options, reverse field order. Doesn’t do a thing, until I apply a null-effect (an effect that does nothing) that forces the rendering of the clip
2. move the clip 1 pixel up. This makes the clip RED but it plays. In this case, it doesn’t play right, fields are still wrong. When I render this clip, fields become right.
NOT GOOD

Now, I thought it would be some “even-odd”-fields problem, So i tried to modify the BMD DV-preset to set it to Upper-fields:
– Captured media has the fields inverted again. That means a “forced” rerender of media again. So far for realtime FX…

The preset for PAL needs to be lower field, NTSC is always lower regardless of DV or uncompressed.

– FX seem to work OK in this case

Lastly, I tried one of the uncompressed presets. DV footage can be added to the timeline without rendering. So good so far, but that DV-footage has fields inverted again, for both media from the 2 fore-mentioned cases. (that means the upper-fields setting captures DV in lower-fields mode!!!!!!!)

DV PAL has to be lower field – unfortunately it is just how the spec for DV PAL was made.

To make fields correct again, the media has to be rerendered, so we’re back at the feature-set of 4.8.1 …….”

In any case i will get the guys to check into this further and get back to you.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Charlie,

Unfortunately there is currently not a DVCPRO HD codec for XP.
We will be doing some more downconversion in the release after next.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Olivier,

FCP 5.2 works fine with the 5.0 drivers.

I’ll see you in Sydney next week for SMPTE.I’ll be there from Monday morning so we should hook up for dinner/drinks (my shout) Looking forward to catching up!

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Jaromir,

We are investigating this now for a future release. We don’t want to promise or announce things that we are not 100% sure will work and be reliable.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Ray,

We are still working on that – it just missed this release as we thought it was a bit buggy so we held on it. We had to get this release out as Blackmagic FrameLink and the DV feature was ready to go.

Could you mail me offline as well – just wanted to go over a few things with you.

Thanks!

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Chris,

Can you give me a run down on the system?

Also can you check with Blackmagic DeckControl application and see if that does the same thing?

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design