[Robin]

will Blackmagic ever support this setting? I’ve been waiting for this setting for a year. I see the setting for NTSC based editing (23.98, 30, 59.97, 60) but for PAL it’s only 1080i 50Hz. It would really help the people in Asia (like me) to finally be able to view a realtime downconvert of the thing we’re working on. Please let this be on your latest driver update.

BTW, a_falk, HDLink requires you to connect to a card or video output, right? It doesn’t work the downcovert alone through USB. It requires a signal to convert. I use Decklink SD Extreme and I thought that the card already acts as a HD to SD downconvert? Please advise.

[Robin]

Shane,

I’ve advised the production with all the information you have suggested. Hopefully they’ll see the light and provide me with enough storage to edit straight DVCPRO-HD and also have a drive dedicated to storing the rushes (a manual RAID 1).

Otherwise, thank you to all the other people who have contributed in this forum.

-Robin

[Robin]

Shane,

I do agree that drives are getting ridiculously cheap these days, however, I’m currently in Indonesia which doesn’t have any of the vendors you mentioned or the support that I need. I’m going to have to figure out how to deal with this, and build my own storage solution.

As of now, the plan is to backup all footage into a separate harddrive only to be used in case of the famous FCP missing media file. Due to this production’s delayed shoot schedule, the edit timeline is bleeding into my next job (which is in Singapore), hence the need for the footage to be portable. I’d ideally like to carry the footage in a pocket HDD so that in the event the director needs changes while I’m away (which probably means OfflineRT). That way, I can edit then email him the project file and have him view in Indonesia (and not have to fly back and forth).

Also, I’ve found that if I recompress DVCPRO HD 720P 25P to HDV 1080i/p 50i/p, the viewer and canvas displays the footage in the correct format. If know how to get around this problem for DVCPRO HD 720p 25p to HDV 720p 25p, that would be fantastic.

-Robin

[Robin]

Tx. Time to place an order. Hehehe.

[Robin]

Kristian,

Tx for the info (and prompt reply). Sean mentioned that the Multibridge Extreme supports 30″. Does the image of the video (both SD & HD) gets scaled to the full size of the monitor? Please advise.

Cheers,
-Robin

[Robin]

Hi Dennis,

I did a search on my computer to find those files. I’m not sure if spotlight can find it but I used the search in finder to get those files. Hope that helps.

Cheers,
-Robin

[Robin]

Kristian,

You rock. Found my files in Application Support / Blackmagic Design / Blackmagic Decklink. Copied them over to Photoshop and it’s all good now.

Thanks,
-Robin

[Robin]

What version of Photoshop are you using?

[Robin]

I neglected to mention that I’m using Decklink 5.0 drivers for Mac.

[Robin]

It worked. Thanks.