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Mike Johnton
February 15, 2006 at 1:26 am in reply to: What’s the alternative for Blackmagic DV capture.

I’m not an expert, but I would capture them seperately and then drag the HDV footage to the DVCPro HD sequence and render and move on from there staying in DVCPro HD.
Mike Johnton
February 14, 2006 at 9:11 pm in reply to: What’s the alternative for Blackmagic DV capture.

I would use a Blackmagic DVCPro HD setting. I wouldn’t go down to DV! If you were going to do that, why did you waste your time and money shooting in DVCPro HD and HDV?
Mike Johnton
February 14, 2006 at 5:09 pm in reply to: Capture in PAL – Varicam footage

Ummm. I’m running the latest version of FCP5 and the Blackmagic drivers, and I have:
Blackmagic HDTV 720p 25 VariCam – 8 bit
Blackmagic HDTV 720p 25 VariCam – 10 bit
Easy Setups.
Mike Johnton
February 6, 2006 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Scopes in PPRO 2 don’t work with BM projects

Premiere Pro 2.0 is only supported under their 5.4 driver…
Mike Johnton
February 6, 2006 at 1:10 pm in reply to: 4 Channel Audio Capture

According to this link, you can do up to 6 channels in Premiere Pro 1.5.1:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=28
Mike Johnton
November 10, 2005 at 8:34 pm in reply to: Decklink to Y/C (S-Vid)? Any low cost converters?

We use these, and they work great!
https://www.svideo.com/svideorca.html
Mike Johnton
November 10, 2005 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Downconvertion problems

> Steen Dongo “Well, we tried the AJA HD10MD3 downconverter and it does a beatiful job.”
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>It’s definitely within my tolerance for what’s usable…. and right now, BlackMagic cards just doesn’t cut >the cake, unfortunately.

I’ve been reading the Cow for three years, and this has finally made me post. *This* has got to take the cake. Comparing a $1,900 stand alone downconverter to a framegrabber whos most expensive version is only $1,500! Talk about comparing apples to oranges!

I wonder, Steen, if you would have been happy to cough up another $1,900 more to buy your framegrabber?

Also, I also own an HD10MD3 and it’s output looks identical to the hardware downconversion on my HD Pro Dual Link – which means that you must be comparing BMD software conversion to AJA hardware conversion.

So, the most expensive BMD card that doesn’t have hardware downconversion is the HD Pro Single Link for $1,000. To add HD capture capabilities to the HD10MD3 you would have to add the Kona LH for $1,800 for a total of $3,700! That’s a 3.7x difference in price!!

I’m wondering if your computer is as good as one that costs 3.7x more? How about your TV? Car? House? Do you own *anything* that can stack up to something that costs 3.7x more?

If you’re going to slam a company, at least have the decency to compare apples to apples!

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