[Ninetto Makavejev]

Hi Chris,

well, based on your comments, I will try drastic measures as a last attempt to get the BMD Decklink HD installed: I will do an entire clean-install of XP and see if the drivers then install properly.
I wish it didn’t have to be this way.

Still I would love to hear from a PC-user who is happy with his/her Decklink PCIe, to give me some motivation that all this pain in the end is worth it! No PC-users here with successful Decklink installs???!

regards,
Ninetto M.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Dear Chris,
thanks for your report: it is strangely comforting to hear that others find it difficult to install the decklink card. I was seriously starting to doubt my own computer skills or rather sanitiy-in-general!

I will check and delete any registry entries relating to BMD as suggested in your other post.

Nevertheless I am still faced with the daunting task of getting the decklink installed, SOMEHOW.

Thus the question remains: anyone with a PC system on which the decklink hd-extreme pci-e card installed satisfactory, and runs well? Could you please specify your motherboard and any tweaks used to get the drivers installed?

regards,
Ninetto M.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

hello,

there is a second option:
when starting a project, PremPro presents you with a number of presets. If -instead of picking a standard firewire setup- you click on CUSTOM and PLAYBACK settings, THIS IS THE ONE and ONLY time Premiere WILL allow you to pick your second monitor as the playback device.

Picking playback device in project settings after clicking the “normal” presets will not work. You monitor will not be displayed as a device.

Be aware that by picking your monitor for DV-output in CUSTOM playback, you may experience problems “exporting to tape”. In that case it will be necessary to import your “custom” project into a project with normal preset. Not perfect but it does work.

This work-around took me hours to discover, but it is the only way I could get video-overlay full-screen on the 2nd monitor, WITHOUT using a dv-device (camera/deck).

hope that helps…
ninetto m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

To be honest, the BSOD flashes so quickly I cannot read the message, and only in the event viewer the traces of a warning that an install device was not recognized.
But I grew tired of further experimenting – hey, quite a few users claimed “it just works”- so after getting another similar crash in a DIFFERENT system (Gigabyte MB), I have RMAed the card and BM-support will hopefully be able to help out with a new card or magic instructions(!)

Thanks for your interest & Stay tuned…

ninetto m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks very much for both posts, for the clarity and detail!
This card does seem to fulfill my present needs.
regards,
ninetto m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks much for your useful info, Darren.

Disaster was avoided after all: the tape I was dealing with turned out to be a “normal” albeit poorly down-sampled 29.97 NTSC DvCam tape.

best regards,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

The question of what your end-format is important… but irregardless, you can really speed up the subtitle spotting process by using software especially designed for this, like BELLE NUIT or LEMONY… the popular freeware SUBTITLE WORKSHOP is ok, but only for dvd-authoring: it cannot export text as image-files nor as a EDL-list that you would need to import into PremPro. The other two tools can do this.

If dvd/encore is your goal, SUBTITLE WORKSHOP is fine, although at last look you did have to tweak the Encore script file it exports. Newer versions of Encore require the UTF-8 coding, but you can convert/edit the script in any word processor.

regards,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Interesting… although I wonder if the “good results” of your DSR450 can be played on other DV players with equally good results? How is the compatibility of the 24p-flavors from device to device?

I still am curious if there is any method to determine how/what-format was recorded on the DVCAM tape I have here, as I believe the tape I have is labeled incorrectly…or more specifically: it has no technical notes, regarding format. And I have to finish this job by monday.

Is there a method of determining this?
And; what happens if I capture 24p material incorrectly, let’s say as standard ntsc-dv @ 29.97 with the Prem preset?

Maybe Premiere is smart enough to recognize the 24p format, and would otherwise refuse to capture the material as normal dv?

thanks in advance,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Well, there is a sort of “poor-man’s-batch-encode” using the open-source AutoHotKey program… it has it’s limits and may require you to change the script to your needs, but check out one batch-encode script here:

https://www.homedvd.ca/contact/software/premiere_pro_batch_export/

This script is just to “save as dv-film” but you can change the script to export to adobe-media-encoder and use your last settings…

greetings,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks for the post, Gene.

I will give the tests you suggested a try. I am using ProCoder 2 which doesn’t have a plug-in for PremPro 2. I guess version 3 must have one, but I don’t know what an upgrade will cost.

So I am using an open-source frame-server.
When/if I have results, will post back.

best regards,
ninetto