Oliver Maingay
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Hi Omar
Just to give you an update on this, https://www.hardingtest.com is now fully automatic, providing virtually instant results 24 hours per day. We’ve also taken on board yours and others’ comments and made a browser-based upload option as well as the FTP option (the FTP option is particularly useful for very large file transfers).
It also gives the user the ability to upload multiple files to their user area and pick and choose the ones they wish to test as and when they are ready. Certificates for your previously tested footage are also available from the user area as well as being automatically emailed as soon as the test is complete.
If you’d like to try it I’d be more than happy to credit your account with a couple of free tests.
Best wishes and hope to hear from you.
Oliver Maingay
HardingTest.com / Vanderquest Ltd.
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I’m having exactly the same problem here. Did you find a concrete solution to this? It is very frustrating having to continually reboot until Windows picks up the Decklink card, especially with a client sitting in!
My motherboard is a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R and I’m using a Decklink HD Extreme 3
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Tape is far more reliable than single hard drives as a long term storage medium.
If you leave a hard drive on a shelf there is no guarantee in 1, 5 or 10 years’ time when you come to plug it back in that it will work. Hard drives need to be spun.
A tape on a shelf however, (be it data or video tape) will see you right for years to come. It shocks me every time I hear people are using individual hard drives / DVD-Rs on a shelf as their primary backup system.
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Also bear in mind that for broadcast in the UK, music videos have to pass the Harding Test for flashes which can trigger seizures in sufferers of epilepsy. Worth looking in to rather than risk getting video rejected – https://www.hardingtest.com
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When you use File>Export>Media do you not get an option in the dropdown box for “Blackmagic AVI File” ? If not it may suggest incorrect installation of the Blackmagic software.
Make sure you have the most recent version of Premiere Pro (Help>Updates) and then uninstall the BM software, reboot and reinstall with the latest version.
Oliver
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Hi Colleen,
Whereabouts are you?
Oliver
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I second the QuickTime/MOV thing. Would be an extremely useful feature for us to be able to capture QuickTime in Windows. Being able to capture QuickTime in DV as well as uncompressed would be the icing on the cake.
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Though we’re a facility in the UK, we have delivered in MPEG-2 to US networks digitally before, I will have their spec at the office and will post it tomorrow when I get in. To start with it will be:
MPEG-2 / 720×480 / 29.97fps / DV (or DV Widescreen) Pixels Aspect / 8Mbps / Lower Field First / and I *think* GOP N=12 M=3
For QuickTime, one client requests QuickTime encoded to the following spec and results are often very good. Probably worth a try:
Codec: Photo JPEG @ 75% Setting
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For broadcast I am very surprised you have deliveries accepted with those specs. Square pixels are for computers or HD, not SD televisions and the aspect ratio should be 720×480 for NTSC.
If you are editing uncompressed I would recommend delivering uncompressed, either 10-Bit using a codec such as Blackmagic or 8-Bit if file sizes are an issue. The station can then encode to their MPEG-2 specs for broadcast.
If you want to go down the MPEG-2 route you need to contact the network for their specifications.
Hope that is some help,
Oliver
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Hi Kristian,
We also used the Extended Desktop feature frequently in our facility. Often our clients want to view their performances on television and it was very useful to be able to play out embedded video from websites through SDI to tape or DVD for review purposes.
Is there any chance of this feature returning?
Regards
Oliver