Matt Dowling
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Hey Shane,
Can you try this for me?
Open up a new BMD 8bit YUV project, then import your whole DV project into that. Play the clips in the new BMD 8bit YUV timeline.
Let me know how that goes..
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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To be honest 4.4 is over a year ago, so much has changed since then that i would have no idea why 4.4 worked and 5.2.2 doesn’t. There has been so many improvements in regards to features and stability since then, i would not recommend running 4.4. There has been a lot of OS changes since then to. That would be the first thing i would look at.
Regards,
Matt
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Hi Adam,
There is a detailed tech note here- https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=66
cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Hi,
150MB/sec for 1080/60 is nowhere near adequate. Our speed disk test is there as a guide, not an absolute. You need to have some overhead – around 20%. for any RAID setup. For 1080/60 a RAID running around 200-220MB/sec would be a good solution.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Howdy,
[Content Lab] “My Decklink system is used at a video engineering company and a fellow engineer requested a HD-SDI test stream with 16 channels of audio. I know what my Decklink HD Pro card can only handle 12 audio channels. The limiting factor however seems to be that I’m using Premier Pro which only seems to handle one channel of AES or one set of AC3 format audio. I could be wrong since I haven’t done much audio work with Premiere and am more of an engineer who tinkers with NLEs rather than a serious editor familiar with my tool.
That’s right – Premiere Pro 1.5 is limited to 4 channels in total output to tape.
[Content Lab] My first question is that I wanted to verify that it wasn’t possible to create a HD-SDI signal with 16 audio channels via my Decklik HD Pro/ PremierePro combo. If that is correct then how would I create such a signal? I would only want color bars and 1khz tone on all the channels initially but would like to create more intricate test streams later.
You can’t create 16 channel via Premiere Pro. We support 12 channels in and out (not 16) to support HDCAM SR. You could do this via our DirectShow filters and run 12 channels in and out but you would need to be familiar with something like GraphEdit. Or it may be possible to render out a QT movie from Premiere Pro with 12 channels and play through Blackmagic DeckControl.
[Content Lab] It seems as if the Multibridge Extreme will be capable of doing this however I’m curious as to where it gets the 4 extra channels of audio if there are only 6 AES channel inputs yielding 12 channels. From scanning through the manual for the older multibridge it seems that you could have only one actual input and route it to all your AES imbedded channels but I don’t want to assume that.
No – you are not limited to 6 channels – you have 12 channels in and out with our HD cards.
[Content Lab] Lastly, when is the friggin Mutlibridge Extreme going to be available. I’ve been drooling over it since NAB. ”
We’re in the final stages of testing now.
Regards,
Matt
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Leo,
Are you uninstalling the drivers ->reboot then install new drivers -> reboot then load Premiere?
Regards,
Matt
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We did some code changes today – so testing it in the morning. Not sure if that will make tomorrow’s build though. If it doesnt, give us a day or 2 to merge it in to a GM build.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Hi Jens,
Yup! found it today and fixed it. Just want to run it a bit tomorrow and if all is good will post a new build tomorrow.
Thanks for the report.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Hi Shane,
The presets not being installed is really wierd (i know a few folks are reporting it) but we can’t repeat it on 4 totally different systems (AMD dual and single core opteron and P4/Xeon) So I am scratching my head a bit there. The only thing i can think of is those users that are running on a non english version of XP – might explain it BUT it doesnt seem to be that simple. I don’t think the presets problem you are seeing has anything to do with your Supermicro not being a “certified” board. BTW you’re dual core AMD is the same motherboard as one of the systems we have here.
Regarding the 64 bit stuff – The DeckLink SD cards (even though the physical connection is 32 bit) run at x2 so it is the basically the same as running a 64 bit card i.e HD Pro in SD mode. So you wont see more RT ability in SD. It all comes down the speed of the system bus and how efficient the application’s internal render engine operates for RT – even processor speed does not have THAT big an affect on RT FX. Of course this is assuming a decent RAID system is hooked up.
PCIe gives us hardware guys more bandwidth but again it comes down to the application’s internal render engine.
As an FYI, we did a few code changes today that fixed the AE render issue that was in 5.2.2b2 and the alpha channel thing that Ghobii reported – just want to run the installer tomorrow on a couple of machines to make sure they are addressed and then we will post another build tomorrow.
Keep us posted on your findings.
Hope the above helps.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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Hi Tony,
We are confident we have fixed this and have also included QT 7 support(about time i hear everyone scream).
Also the DeckLink is now seen as a sound device by the system, so you can now play audio through the DeckLink across the whole system ie.Windows Media player, iTunes etc…
We have finished the code and will be posting a beta installer Monday (Australian time)
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
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