Re: Blacks...

[Danrnw] "Not quite sure what you are asking about playthrough."

Most cards up until recently would not allow you to view footage on an NTSC monitor unless its using its own codec (ie: Targa codec plays through Cinewave hardware, Blackmagic codec plays through Decklink hardware, BUT DV clips/codec can not play through 3rd party hardware only via firewire).

So my question is: If I'm working with DVCPRO footage/codec, and a DVCPRO sequence, can I view it through the Pipe hardware on an NTSC monitor? Or must you only use Aurora compatible codecs to view clips out?

[Danrnw] "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."

I think this almost answers my question. So if the sequence is DV, DVCPRO, or anything other than Aurora, can I go to the view menu and select the option to play clips through the Pipe hardware out to the NTSC?

The REASON I ask: Sometimes you work with DV footage alone (offline for example). To save drive space you don't want to capture DV footage to an uncompressed codec, making the file 5 times larger than it needs to be. But when you do that, you can't play the clips or the sequence to an NTSC monitor. Outside of multicodec support, Cinewave added this feature in version 4 which was praised by everyone, because now you could play DV clip outside of the firewire world.

Hope I explained it a little better.
Thanks for your help.
Ron