[Nick Pittas]

Luke thanks for the reply.

I was anxius about the next release primary because of the color shift between 2 8bit clips inside premiere. In realtime it’s ok but when I render the FX it has a luminance shift. Even when I try to use a title the clip underneath is shifted noticably.

Also I can’t use the rendered Combustion Avis with any of the blackmagic codecs, so I have to render a sequence and the re-render it to a QT movie from within After FX. Two renders is a waste of time.

And finally in PPro when I print to tape and have forgotten the curson in a frame inside my edit (not a black one) Decklink starts to print to tape but uses this frame for the first frame of the entire movie and shifts the rest of the timeline by 1 frame (it doesn’t un-sync though). It’s like the framebuffer does not clear when it’s exporting (not until the deck goes to rec mode).

I’ve already asked these questions since 4.7 drivers and I hoped that there would be a fix in this release.

Again thanks for the reply

[Nick Pittas]

Hello everybody…

I asked a simple question, and I still got no answer. There are many solutions for DV editing (and Avid is one of the best for DV footage), but the problem here is that we are waiting for about 2 months since the last dot update and nobody has any info on the release date or the features/bug fixes that it will include.

As for the debate, Avid has a very professionally oriented interface but the quality sucks even for an Adrenaline. The codecs are awful but it’s used in a way that nobody ever finishes the work on an Avid. The workflow (for commercials and Film) is usually :
1: Capture and Edit on an Avid
2: Export OMF or EDL
3: Re-capture on a machine capable for uncompressed
4: Finish and make the copies straight from that machine.

Too much capturing for no reason…but if you want high quality and you’re working with Avid that’s the only way, unless you have Avid Unity and the material can be tranfered to a DS and be composited from there. But still the quality is 1:1 lossless (not uncompressed).

For Broadcast Avid 3:1 is OK for SD. But for real compositing work you can’t trust less than 1:1.

And all of these for 40K $. I’ll go with Decklink any time.

I’ll be waiting for and answer from anybody who has any infos on the PC drivers.

Thanks
Nick

[Nick Pittas]

DeckLink Xtreme

Sony UVW-2800

Output to Deck Component/XLR, Output to Preview Monitor SDI/SPDIF

Digital Beta, Betacam SP, MiniDV, DVCam, DVD and VHS for Customer Preview

Sound Blaster Live Player

2 channels for Betacam SP, 4 channels for DigiBeta.

[Nick Pittas]

I’ve been working on a :
Single P4 3,2
Supermicro mobo
2Gb Ram
2x200Gb Hard Disk on Raid 0
Silicon Image SATA Controler

and I can capture without any problem 8bit/10bit SDI. I’m curently working with Music Videos and the rushes are about 2 hours, so for a 60min 10bit capture everything seems to work Perfect!