Sean Meredith
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My card is the BM Decklink Pro (Single Link). But my final timeline is 10bit RGB Kona Log because that’s what my colorist used when we mastered in Final Touch. I went through the whole prep for mastering with my 10 422 BM version of the sequence, but was having bizarre problems with garbage frames which I wasn’t able to solve, though still discussing…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/972099So I went backwards to my RGB Log sequence. I hear Kona does great downrez, but BM not as good. So, that’s why I was going to have Compressor do the work.
-sean
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
Okay, so I’m not totally unique or crazy. I’ve been making all my outputs from my BM 10bit 422 HD footage (since it’s what my system can handle). So yesterday I finally gave up that route (taking weeks of works out to the woodshed). Now I’ve gone back to my Kona 10bit RGB master file. I’ve set it up to be my source for all my outputs. This film was edited through late 2006, screened at fests in 2007, and now we’re making foreign and domestic deals and the number of different formats is kicking my butt. I started out using FCP 5.0something and now I’m using 5.1.4. But they were all v5.
Did you try things like copying the contents of your timeline into a new sequence? My problem is with the movies I output via compressor. I nested my HD sequence into SD sequences so I could finesse the deliverable (anamorphic, letterbox, full-frame), then output that sequence. Not exactly relevant to the problem, but with PAL, I’ve been export a 23.98 movie then changing the speed in Cinema Tools. So, it’s hard to move the clip around when it’s one full length clip. I could try to using the Media Manager to deal with all these clips, but I don’t like trusting MM unless my mom says I have to.
It can get really confusing because some of the QT movies wouldn’t have the problem consistently (I realized those are probably the source). Then there are the QT files I exported using them, which have the bad frames hard wired into them.
Did you try moving the project onto another system? Also curious what codecs you were working with.
-sean
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
so this problem is still unresolved. it’s not a QT 7.4 issue. The only time I don’t have this issue is when I put my 1TB SATA (that’s normally in a FW800 enclosure) into my PM G5. That means I get these frames whenever I play from my SATA RAIDs or my FW800 drive. The QT, FCP, and System versions don’t make a difference. I’m starting to wonder if I’ve got some kind of i/o hardware issue. Could QT just stop playing attention and display large blocks of blacks and grays if the data is getting garbled somewhere along the line.
Life is on hold as I try to figure this out. Great time for my daughter’s mom to be out of the country for a few weeks.
Here’s what the bad frames look like when I play off my SATA or FW800…
https://cutterfilms.com/bad/Plays fine on my Macbook Pro (well, not fast enough to play, but i can’t look at frames and it’s all fine).
-sean
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
I can’t even open Uncompressed 10bit files that I made a few weeks ago, or ones I made after the upgrade, or ones I made after the downgrade. And that’s technically a standard QT codec. So I didn’t bother re-installing the AJA. AJA is listed as an export choice. Anyway, don’t worry. I’ve just re-installed Tiger. Now for the hours of updates, etc.
thanks.
-sean
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
re-installed decklink just in case. but I was able to open older files from 2006 that have those codecs.
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
tried to down grade to 7.3.1… now I can’t open any new video clips made with Uncompressed 10 bit or AJA Yuv codecs.
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
“What QTs don’t open? Your captures or exports? ”
my exports. AJA codecs or Uncompressed 10 bit. neither the ones I made before, during, or after the 7.4 upgrade.
sounds like I might need to start my os install from scratch. which really sucks since two week I did my first clean install in over two and a half years. it took all day.
well, at least I don’t have the rental D5 and digi-beta decks sitting here costing money. then I’d be freaking.
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
Just down graded to QT 7.3.1, but now I can’t open most video files. F*?!#-ing Hell !!!!!
I love starting a day planning on, say, synching and prepping your PAL audio, and by 2pm neither NTSC or PAL work.
Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com -
I built my own with Seagate drives and a MacGurus enclosure. It’s worked great. The fans a little loud. The Sonnet card I got was more troublesome. Early on I had a hard time getting a good connection between the card and the SATA cables. Also, eight cables are a pain. The new port multipliers sound good to me (five drives->one cable, or ten drives -> two cables). I keep them in sets of four RAID 0 drives which runs around 250MB/sec at best. When I tested ’em with eight it could run over 400MB/sec. It all depends on what your needs are.
sean
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Well, yes, I assumed that it’s just not possible to display footage from FCP or AE while using HDLink. I set some color bars as my background picture on the HDLink connected monitor. But I can’t be sure its sending the color bars correctly when its in the desktop monitor mode.
-sean