[Miles Blow]

Hi Kritian
thanks for your reply….thats cool that it can be moved between mac-pc plantforms.
Thanks
Miles

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Hi guys what motherboard you guys using?

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One thing you could try is changing your project setups o different setting then render the footage and see if the downconversion has interferance on those other settings. That will rule out a hardware problem if thee is no interference on the other projects.

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Hi I dont have your exact same set up…but its better to get a reply than nothing and nt many here on this forum use windows…. we have a multibridge exrteme prempro2 we arent using that video format but i have noticed the down conversion is soft. I think this might actually be a premiere thing. Because when we put a big 3k or hd jpeg on the timeline and set premiere to auto fit the still it softens the image greatly. If you leave it without this option. its alot sharper. but it is very uninterlaced looking.

The grid lines you are getting sound like a hardware fault. Have you tried looking at regular dv out through the multibridge to an sd monitor just to make sure you are only getting these problems on the down conversion?

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Hi guys
Just on the soft monitor issue…we shoot 3k with a digital slr (for animation) when we render a hd mjpeg at 1920×1080 we get a beautiful image out to our 24” dell through the multibridge extream but we get a lame arsed down conversion that is soft via s-video (sonypvm-14n6a).

If we render a sd (720×576) copy in AE of this same footage out to the sd monitor through the same s-video plugs we get an awsome picture, so that to me proves the analogue sd down conversion is soft…still ok for colour correction though just soft.

I guess the proper way to do it is by using a hd crt monitor with the hd sdi connection….that way letting the monitor do the conversion…let me know if im barking up the wrong tree with this theory?

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Hi…We are shooting stopmotion animation but because we shoot raw nef straight from our slr, we knew premiere doesn’t support this format so we convert in after effects with a burnt in frame number then offline edit sd in prem pro2. We use a multibridge as well.

Have you tried getting a image sequence with very small datarate to play? Does premiere play back these files in a non blackmagic timeline like straight dv? It would be cool if blackmagic would give some specifics on what sequences can play back.

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Ok got it ! I read someone ells who had the same problem.

[Miles Blow]

Thanks Vince! We will just have to learn to be more carefull.

thanks
Miles

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Hi Vince
Yes I got that to work thanks! Only problem is we are doing lots and lots of big cuts and single frame cuts and it would be a nightmare having to do that several times for one shot(we are doing stopmotion animation heaps of fix’s.) The way premiere 6.5 handeled the edits is better for us. Is it possible to get premiere pro2 to snap edits together without the fear that they are cutting eachother down with out us knowing?

thanks
Miles

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Hi Luke. Thanks for getting back! Unfortunatly we cant test the componant yet as out sony pvm monitor doesnt have component inputs- but we looking out for another monitor (with componant)on ebay.

If we place a high definition clip onto a standard def timeline the quality is supurb(out through s-video)So it seems that the down conversion is doing it.(Maybe its just the s-video)

Has anyone else noticed this on their monitors using either s-video or component outputs?