[Steve Drew]

Hi Beak,

The Decklink Extreme cards can only capture standard definition formats, but allow you to down convert if you have aquired HD footage by some other means. I am currently using JVC’s deck in a project, intercutting with Digibeta. I’m using the BR-HD50U to internally down convert the footage to SD before outputting to my Decklink Extreme. It does a pretty good downconversion.

Not what you want to do obviously, but save buying a HD Decklink card or inputting over Firewire, it’s the only way you’re getting a component signal into your suite.

Don’t forget, capturing to another codec will NOT make the image better quality.
The only advantage in doing that is that the CPU no longer needs to work as hard to give you RT editing functionality.

[Steve Drew]

Thank god someone else is having this problem!

I’ve been too busy to post it recently and have just been rendering everything at 8bit as everything WORKS at 8bit. 10bit also gives awful results on multiply transfer modes in the timeline.

I get the green garbage around my photoshop alpha edges, as you said, but only when I’ve got a drop shadow on it. I’ve found a cumbersome way around it:
Firstly, check that the clips giving you the grief are photoshop “sequences”, not the individual layer from the photoshop sequence.
Then remove any FCP drop shadow effect.
Open up the photoshop sequence by double clicking it
Apply the drop shadow to the layer INSIDE the sequence
Than return to your master sequence – all should be good.

It would be dandy if this was sorted.

[Steve Drew]

Thank god someone else is having this problem!

I’ve been too busy to post it recently and have just been rendering everything at 8bit as everything WORKS at 8bit. 10bit also gives awful results on multiply transfer modes in the timeline.

I get the green garbage around my photoshop alpha edges, as you said, but only when I’ve got a drop shadow on it. I’ve found a cumbersome way around it:
Firstly, check that the clips giving you the grief are photoshop “sequences”, not the individual layer from the photoshop sequence.
Then remove any FCP drop shadow effect.
Open up the photoshop sequence by double clicking it
Apply the drop shadow to the layer INSIDE the sequence
Than return to your master sequence – all should be good.

It would be dandy if this was sorted.

[Steve Drew]

Once again Luke, Blackmagic support astounds me.
Thanks for being one of the good guys.

Hat’s off.

[Steve Drew]

THANKS LUKE!
THAT WAS IT – KNEW IT HAD TO BE SOMETHING THAT SIMPLE.

CAPS LOCK IS ON AND I’M-A-RENDERING 🙂

[Steve Drew]

Use the 3D Text option by Boris instead of the FCP text generator.
You can individually kern, outline, drop shadow and colour all characters individually and it’s all real time!

Not aliased either..>!

[Steve Drew]

Hi Luke,
Yep, been doing that – the only option from the drop down box is Millions.
Should it be different? That means strange things are a-foot at the Circle-K….

Any ideas?

[Steve Drew]

Hmmm – no option like that exists in my version of QT7 preferences.

See pics:
http://www.firstlightdigital.com/Picture%201.png
and
http://www.firstlightdigital.com/Picture%203.png

[Steve Drew]

Decklink Extreme is without question the single best investment our company has made. It is well supported and regularly updated. It is perfectly stable and records/plays out frame acurate every time while always maintaining perfect A/V sync. It’s cost is insanely low for the quality of the product and support that comes with it.
I began my career on M100, moved to AVID XPress Pro and then to FCP running under a Cin

[Steve Drew]

…yet another confirmation of the issue.