Re: Blacks...

Not quite sure what you are asking about playthrough.
You can't play mixed codecs in the same sequence without
rendering the one that was not the sequence setting.
But that's true of all the video cards except, as you know
the Cinewave.

As far as sequences go, you can easily play a sequence that is
DV, then click on a tab with a sequence that's uncompressed
and work on that one and see it on your broadcast monitor
just the same. Here again, I'm not sure it that's what you mean.

I had the KONA2 card previous to the Pipe Studio and I had
digitized hours of footage to 10 bit uncompressed SD
with it, then I changed cards to the Pipe Studio and all the
footage played just fine. Not sure if that's your question...
but there seems to be this mis conception out there that
these codecs don't run on different cards and my experience
is they do work. Blackmagic footage plays on the Pipe,
AJA footage plays on the Pipe. I'm betting it's the other
way around as well. It's all Quicktime. I'm only speaking
from my experience though. Ask AJA/Aurora/Blackmagic
to see if I'm speaking correctly or not.

dan