Tracy Peterson
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I think I agree with you about trying to make the best work possible and I think most people who seek advice come here because they have that mentality.
In my own philosophy, I try to improve all of the things that I can. If you only edit and don’t shoot, then my advice for lights and mics doesn’t matter and keeping the card makes more sense, I suppose 🙂 I’m just putting it out there as an alternate point of view.
I also get a little over touchy when people question each other’s professionalism here. Cheers. I like the commercial work on your site, very good color and images, must have been a good capture setup 😉
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I haven’t used CS3 in a little bit to change ports, but I think you need to set up your capture preferences to firewire. If I’m not mistaken (and I might be) there’s an option for firewire control in the capture settings dialogue, as an alternative to blackmagic.
I would start there. I don’t know if that’s the correct method, but where I would look.
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Huh
“Sell all your pro gear and go with paper and glue.
It is a bit short sighted to go on and get better on professional arena with such vision in your profession”I see you have plenty of money to spare, keeping it tied up in gear you don’t use. Good for you. Actually you probably use yours, Margus, again good for you. I think what I read earlier is that he doesn’t use his.
My advice is based on financial principal, but obviously if you want to be taken seriously by professionals don’t take my advice. This appears to be shortsighted vision in the opinion of real professionals.
Everyone seems to be in defense of high quality, even me, but I’m saying to you that if you can use the money to purchase quality gear that you actually use, go for it. I recommend microphones or lighting as they both add to a quality product.
Apparently that is a terrible affront to professional values and I lack professional vision in this professional world, but whatever, it works for me and I have a well rounded working studio that I am able to improve over time.
Whatever you decide, don’t forget to have fun while you are being professional, you professional, you.
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Oh there very much is an advantage to previewing HD footage on an HD monitor. Even if it’s just a consumer LCD panel.
Foremost is the fact that you can see potential problems like focus, grain, dust, small issues with background and if you are doing effects, edge issues. The higher definition makes the image clearer for the preview. When you are downconverting to SD you necessarily pull a huge amount of pixel data out of the image, thus reducing the complexity of the image you end up seeing.
If you are only working in SD, there really isn’t much of an advantage to use an HD monitor over a SD one, but yes, down converting HD to SD loses a lot and reduces the effectiveness of the preview.
As far as color is concerned, it would be nice to be able to afford a great pro HD Monitor, but a cheap commercial one will definitely render color as a TV does, so that at the least, you are better off than a computer monitor.
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You can connect your Decklink card to any monitor that has the correct inputs to match the outputs on your Decklink, and of course the correct video modes.
Consumer HD monitors will play back SD as well, it will just still be SD 🙂
The big difference for consumer monitors is color control and features like LUTs and such.
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“I got sound working, I had to change the audio output settings from blackmagic as well as player setting from black magic to adobe player and I got sound back hope this helps”
It totally does. I had this problem in prerelease as well. It defaults to the blackmagic in and outs. If you have the XLR in/outs connected to a mixer or other output solution, you should be fine, but if you have a hybrid of pc sound card and blackmagic, you won’t be.
Also:
There is not a “Blackmagic Audio” input for recording in the windows control panel. I thought there was one before, am I misremembering? I could have sworn that I had set my input to blackmagic audio at some point and recorded audio from soundforge with that mic input. Am I smoking something?
If it was removed, it would be a nice feature to have.
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Ok, let me jump in here a sec…
If it were me and I was using a DV camera only, and not outputting to a deck or importing video from a deck, I’d sell the card. I worked with my DVX for two years with only firewire and never had the need for a deck or SDI.
Fact is, you won’t be killing the industry by only working in DV and monitoring via firewire through your camera. You can even preview NTSC after effects projects this way. It’s neat, I’ve done it.
As you can do all the really cool stuff that Bob mentioned, up to but not including destroying the lives of thousands of professionals, you could probably get your 800 while it’s still worth that, then get the gear you need later when you need it. 800 buys a lot of mini-dv tape stock, or even a quality lighting kit or great mics.
See, quality is important, but it seems like you don’t need that quality yet. If you were using a camera with SDI outs, or a camera that circumvented the compression chips to an output, the decklink would be necessary. As it is, it seems like for you it’s just an expensive monitoring solution (800 plus monitor for NTSC, meh, get a TV)
There’s room in the world for high end sports tuning shops and the shade tree mechanic as well.
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If you are set on using Premiere CS3, it works fine in vista with 3GB. Really.
6GB minimum, where is that from? I’ve run both CS3 and 4 with no problems with 2GB RAM.
CS3 can run easily on a 5-600 dollar computer. You might want faster/larger drives for HDV and as you get in to high high end HD, definitely a better system, but if you are a novice as you say, that shouldn’t be an issue for a while.
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RED also doesn’t seem to mind being in perpetual beta. Have you used the RED on Premiere, how is the performance?
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What’s killing me now is that I just got CS4. It’s a pain I know, but I’m going to rely on CS3 drivers for now, for my hot new HD Extreme 3.
Sad face.
Tracy Peterson
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