[Motti88]

Actually It’s connected to a the component output to a SD monitor as I still mainly deliver SD.
I set the resolution to PAL in the Video preview settings & everything has worked perfectly for me so far.
Whenever I use a HD Comp I recieve the centeral part of the frame displayed on the SD Monitor but I can get a the full frame resacled to SD if I Check the appropriate check box in the video preview settings (also a nice thing that works in AFX 7 but not in CS3 is that if you select 1/3 res in the RAM preview settings you get a fast rescaled ver. on the SD monitor, so I set the Regular Ram Preview-full res to check details & the Shift-Ram to 1/3 res).
I haven’t encountered any problems with full speed Ram Previews to the Intensity Pro on Comps ranging from SD up to 1920×1080 on my system which has the following specs:
Tyan Thunder K8WE Board
2 x AMD 246 (2Ghz.) Opteron CPUs
2 GB ram
Geforce 8800Gts GFX card
Windows XP Pro 32bit

If you have any doubts you can ask your Decklink reseller to test drive the Intensity Pro with one of your projects.

P.s- The way RAM previews work in AFX it doesn’t really matter how many layers are in a comp as the application renders everything into a single layer for playback so if you can play a full speed preview of one layer in a given resolution you can play any comp in that res (unless, off course, you don’t have enough RAM).

[Motti88]

I don’t know who told you so but the Intensity is not limited to specific CODECs (The only limitation is identical to the Decklink limitation of no RT support inside Premiere pro for unsupported CODECs).

I am using an Intensity Pro card with AFX 7 & CS3. everything can be previewed out of AFX just like the Decklink.
The differences between the Decklink & Intensity Pro are as follows:
1. Intensity Pro- YUV, S-Video,Comp, HDMI . Decklink HD Extreme – YUV, S-Video,Comp, SDI
2. Intensity Pro- RCA Unbalanced audio,Decklink HD Extreme – XLR Balanced audio
3. No Serial Deck Control port on Intensity.
4. No Reference Input on Intensity models.
5. No Video desktop support in the Intensity drivers.

So the Intensity Pro should meet your needs for an After-Effects video preview framebuffer.

[Motti88]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the quick reply. As a person who is involved professionally
in many documentary & long form drama productions I know that there is
still a very very large need for low data rate offline formats. In
fact in almost all the productions I’ve been involved (a large no. of
high profile work here in Israel) the Avid res of choice has still
been 15:1s. When you’re dealing with hundreds of hours of material
even today’s huge drives make the use of online or even DV compression
still impractical & cumbersome.
One of P-Pro’s weak points is the limitation of not having a standard
offline Codec for long form projects. So I think it would be a shame
if you wouldn’t introduce a feature which by all accounts should be
relatively minor to implement & would potentially bring real added
value to your product.

Thanks & keep up the good work,

Gal

[Motti88]

Try DGindex (you can google to find it) – a nice free DVD to Mpeg convertor.
I just finished a project that had a lot of DVD source material & it worked great (You can even mark the In & Out of the segment that you need).

Hope this helps,

Gal Mosessco Kariel

[Motti88]

Try DGindex (you can google to find it) – a nice free DVD to Mpeg convertor.
I just finished a project that had a lot of DVD source material & it worked great (You can even mark the In & Out of the segment that you need).

Hope this helps,

Gal Mosessco Kariel

[Motti88]

Hi,

Just one question about the Jpeg codec – Can the user specify the data rate – for use as an offline codec, for example ? (that would be realy great- as very often even DV is not compressed enough – ie large amount of source footage)

Thanks,

Gal Mosessco Kariel

[Motti88]

Hi,

As I am currentely evaluating the Xena LH against the new Dceklink HD Extreme & Mulribridge Pro I would be realy happy to learn about all the new features of the new ver. 2 premiere driver. Any word about offline/DV res playback support ?

Thanks,

Gal M.
Video Editor/Compositor