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Yes is it confusing.

Just with regard to you comment re other apps… I captured identical footage from the same DigiBeta machine through our DPS Reality card, then imported it onto the PC that houses the XENA card…. subsequently had NO problem keying that identical footage under Premier Pro 2.

I am working in the PAL world, so maybe there is a problem with the codec when capturing PAL…. I really don’t know. I am using the latest XENA and QT drivers.

As you say, possibly some sort of supernatural or alien intervention?

I gather from your responses that you don’t have a problem, with ChromaKeying XENA captured footage?

Regards
RED

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Tim
No, the key is REALLY bad. I have heard PPro 2’s keyer is average, but I CAN key the same file OK in PPro2, captured by any of the other cards. The key looks acceptable… it’s just the XENA grabbed footage that is blocky at the edges.
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RED

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Thanks for your reply Tim….
No, all the files are similar sizes.. the other cards recording the file at around 20 Meg per second, and the XENA card actually recording more information at 26Meg/second. The properties dialogue box states that the file is 24 bit, so colour info seems OK.

Thought it may have been our Breakout Box, so disconnected that, and went into XENA direct, but makes no difference.
This one really has us stumped!

Regards
RED

[Rededitor]

I had the same problem initially… I think you may be saving the file twice… check your Raid disk after you’ve done the save… is there a second file there (Untitled or such) of the same size? If there is, that’s why it’s taking so long, because you are actually re-saving as another file…. check your capture settings.

Cheers
RED

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Daniel
I don’t work much in DV format, and so haven’t done any mass or batch importing of DV sequences into Premier.

On the other matter of Lower/Upper Field switching,… I have had a closer look at the problem, and it seems that applying Reverse Field Dominance doesn’t actually do that!!!

I have tried it with various DV clips into an AJA SD PAL project, and the system simply loses one set of fields and deinterlaces the sequence. This is NOT reversing the fields… try it for yourself, especially with panning shots… compare the result of deinterlacing the footage as opposed to RFDing the footage… you get exactly the same result… instead you should be seeing smooth pans, instead of that shuttered filmy look.

Looks like a bug.

FWIW
Regards
RED

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Yes I concur. I am having the same dilemma with our LHe card. In the Premier project environment of AJA SD PAL, whenever we capture in DV we have an opposite field problem on playback (jittery etc)… we correct this by applying Reverse Field dominance to the clip from Field Options. I can’t seem to find any other way of playing out the clip normally.
Cheers
RED