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	Codec for Mac OS - Premiere CS3 by Frank Ruggiero on Nov 21, 2009 at 9:49:46 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi Black Magic experts, I have Mac OS and I own Premiere CS3. Does the blackmagic use Photojpeg codec for output using a Mac? Or is that just for Windows. I guess my real question is, what codecs for outputting are available to me on the Mac us


	Do I need a Sync Generator? by Frank Ruggiero on Nov 21, 2009 at 9:46:33 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi Black Magic experts, I am interested in obtaining a Decklink SDI. I am a little unclear about what I actually need to hook this up to a pro broadcast monitor. Would I need to buy a sync generator? I see that the Decklink's breakout cable has a


	Re: PAL to NTSC through black magic by Bob Zelin on Nov 21, 2009 at 9:34:14 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum no - these are not standards converters. Neither are the products made by blackmagic's competitors. Bob Zelin


	PAL to NTSC through black magic by tel jaba on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:35:43 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum hey guys I need to send out and NTSC DVD to be screened at a theater, my project is PAL HDV (70 minutes) and it needs 8 hours to export to QT, i was planning to take that PAL QT to compressor and convert to NTSC Ive done this before and the qualit


	new iMac QUAD-CORE & FCP2/3 - Strong enough? by Aviv Vana on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:19:55 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Ok - the question of the day, the new 27" imac Quad-Core i7 (hyper threading) - 512mb graphics card & 4-8GB RAM . . . This seems like a pretty good setup to work with HDV from the xh-a1 and Canon 7d/5d. Am i correct? I know i will be limit


	Re: Capture AVCHD vs Import by Steve Stone on Nov 18, 2009 at 3:58:05 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Thanks Rob. I understand what you are saying & agree it's probably not worth the extra money for the Black Magic card. Another nice feature of the capture option was that it let you control the camera from inside Vegas (Start, Stop, Pause etc).


	Prioritize my wish list by Jeff Mueller on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:27:20 am in the Event Videographers Forum Hi: I have a new Event Video business, not strictly limited to events but my three gigs so far have all been weddings. I've actually been in the Film/Video industry for a long time but am new to this side of the business and every time I turn aro


	Re: FCP for Broadcast by Andrew Kimery on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:29:12 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Jason Ingersoll] "Format is native Sony XDCAM EX which is HDV. I have a black magic decklink HD extreme card. Color correction done in final cut with broadcast safe. " Just FYI, the native format for that camera is the XDCAM EX codec which is not t


	Re: FCP for Broadcast by Dave LaRonde on Nov 17, 2009 at 6:49:47 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Jason Ingersoll] "Format is native Sony XDCAM EX which is HDV. I have a black magic decklink HD extreme card. Color correction done in final cut with broadcast safe. " PLUS you have the FCP vectorscope and waveform monitor open as well, right? Y


	Re: FCP for Broadcast by Jason Ingersoll on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:46:12 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Format is native Sony XDCAM EX which is HDV. I have a black magic decklink HD extreme card. Color correction done in final cut with broadcast safe. The problem they say is on there end when they import a quicktime it compresses the file then t


	Re: Capture AVCHD vs Import by Rob Franks on Nov 17, 2009 at 3:37:46 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Okay... I got ya'. You're capturing direct through firewire. No. Avchd cams do not have a firewire port as they are not needed. You can still capture direct (with some of the avchd cams) but it involves the use of something like the Black magic in


	Re: Best way to import HV30 footage? by Jeff Pulera on Nov 15, 2009 at 7:05:34 pm in the HDV Format Forum Hi, You don't mention what software you are editing with, or why you're not happy with native HDV. You're already familiar with Cineform, so I will note that they now have a codec just for HDV, called NeoScene. I edit on Premiere with the Matro


	Re: ADVC 1000 problem by Paul Redgrove on Nov 15, 2009 at 1:47:59 pm in the Broadcast Video Forum Hi Baz Never got the damned thing to work. Tried everything. Had it running through firewire onto camera no problem. Thing is my edits suffered form cutting wihtout a monitor and if it's a persistant problem then I'll have to look at other setups


	Re: Can't Get Viewer to display 16:9? by Tom Wolsky on Nov 14, 2009 at 11:25:24 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Check the item properties for the clips. Is the anamorphic flag checked? If there us no Black Magic anamorphic preset duplicate one that's close to your spec and set the anamorphic check in it. That will yell the application that the captured med


	Can I do this with the Intensity Pro? by Frank Ruggiero on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:55:48 am in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi Black Magic Experts, I know I am probably asking a lot, but can anyone advise me on this idea? I would like to but a Black Magic Intensity Pro. My plan is to buy a consumer level HD television (Sony XBR9). I really want to monitor HD for


	Decklink HD Extreme by Stu Fowler on Nov 12, 2009 at 11:04:23 am in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi all, I'm having problems with my Decklink card. I have a 32" lcd attached with HDMI used as a preview monitor when in FCP & extended desktop any other time. All was working fine up until a month or so ago when a colleague unplugged the hd


	Re: Black Magic audio capture by Jeff Markgraf on Nov 10, 2009 at 1:35:19 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum So I checked it out now that I'm back at work. And, yes, I can just turn off tracks 5-16 in the clip settings tab. I seem to recall that didn't work before, but it's OK now. What confused me (and still puzzles me) is that I can't get access to the


	Re: BlackMagic Mini Convertor HDMI to HDSDI. several problems please help by Michael Pierre on Nov 9, 2009 at 8:38:14 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum I concur with everything you're saying. I will add that the AJA HA-5 does NOT auto switch to 480 upon pressing the record button. I was shocked when I figured this out (spoke with AJA tech).... I think the black magic is actually the better adapt


	Re: media 100 trial set up by Wickham Strub on Nov 9, 2009 at 1:01:50 pm in the Media 100 \| Media 100 HD Forum What slot is the card in? Is this is a "clean" install of M100 or did you have something else running in there prior? What software version from Black Magic are you running? Should be v7.3.2. What vintage is your HD Extreme card? BMD has a


	Re: Black Magic audio capture by Baz Leffler on Nov 8, 2009 at 1:32:05 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum In the deck control preset settings you can set how many audio channels are available. Baz What would I do without the 'UNDO' button!!!!


	Re: Difference between Apple XDCAM and Sony XDCAM formats? by Nick Righton on Nov 7, 2009 at 10:55:55 pm in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum Save yourself a lot of time and effort. Buy a Black Magic Design Intensity Pro capture card for less than 200 bucks. Capture the video directly from the canon via HDMI into the mac via the Intensity and have the Intensity endode the video to Pro Res


	Re: Black Magic audio capture by Jeff Markgraf on Nov 7, 2009 at 7:09:01 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum That was the first thing I tried to do. Didn't seem to work. Still got a clip with 16 channels of nothing. Of course, this was some time ago, and I've been using mostly clips digitized elsewhere lately. I'll try it again, as the system was ju


	Re: Black Magic audio capture by Michael Gissing on Nov 7, 2009 at 5:56:34 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum In the log and capture window there is a tab that shows video and audio tracks to capture. Just turn off the tracks you don't need to capture before you log. This isn't really a Blackmagic issue.


	Black Magic audio capture by Jeff Markgraf on Nov 7, 2009 at 3:11:34 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hello Cows FCP 6.0.6 MacPro Quad processor OS X 10.5.8 Black Magic DeckLink HD Extreme (2009 version, current driver) Most of my work is with DigiBeta in & out, via SDI, in uncompressed SD The "BlackMagic NTSC-8 bit" uncompressed easy set


	Re: Blackmagic Decklink Extreme Card Still for Sale! by Dan Bigbee Jr on Nov 6, 2009 at 3:13:28 am in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Frank, Thanks for getting back to me. I have purchased the Black Magic card I need. Dan


	Re: Premiere Pro CS3 with Black Magic Intensity Pro by Chuck Hicks on Nov 5, 2009 at 1:03:41 am in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Sorry Figured it out.. Forgot to upload my plugin files into my Premiere Pro Directory..


	Premiere Pro CS3 with Black Magic Intensity Pro by Chuck Hicks on Nov 4, 2009 at 11:48:25 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum I am running Premiere Pro CS3 with a Black Magic Intensity Pro capture card.. I am having issues getting the Intensity Pro to show up as a capture device in my capture settings. When I am in my project settings under the Capture tab with the Capture


	Monitor setup by Tristan Olson on Nov 4, 2009 at 8:23:44 pm in the AJA Kona Forum Hi Guys, First off, thanks for all of the recommendations on the Flanders Scientific broadcast monitors. I just picked mine up and it looks great. Here is my question: I have two Apple monitors for the editor, the Flanders Scientific for gradin


	News: Hollywood Black Magic Filter Big Part of Reynolds’ Bag of Tricks for "Better Off Ted" by Cow News Droid on Nov 4, 2009 at 7:09:06 pm in the News & Press Releases Forum (November 4, 2009) When cinematographer Brian Reynolds began prep for the Fox/ABC half-hour comedy series "Better Off Ted", his challenge was to trim the budget and keep the quality look as well as the 11-hour work day. “One of my first choices was t


	Re: AJA HA5 Question -- OT by Steve Harley on Nov 4, 2009 at 6:11:26 pm in the AJA Kona Forum Hi Gary, Thanks for your response. I think I should have been more specific. When I display my Avid 1080 Color Bar .tif in the Windows Picture Viewer (in full-screen slide-show mode) the bars are perfect on my Black Magic Ultrascope. If I vi


	Re: Black Magic Intensity by Noah Kadner on Nov 1, 2009 at 7:48:28 pm in the Apple Color Forum Yeah and to be honest- ProRes is one of those codecs that looks pretty good generation to generation. Especially compared to something like DV or H.264. Noah Check out my book: RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera! Unlock the


	Re: Black Magic Intensity by Andrew McKee on Nov 1, 2009 at 6:25:10 pm in the Apple Color Forum Thanks Noah, I'll give that a try. A generation of compression seems an OK price to pay to be able to monitor in Color. Andy


	Re: Black Magic Intensity by Noah Kadner on Nov 1, 2009 at 3:50:01 pm in the Apple Color Forum I'd guess a Media Manage to ProRes to force the right pixel dimensions would do the trick then send that to Color- a recapture doesn't seem necessary here. Noah Check out my book: RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera! Unlock


	Re: Black Magic Intensity by Andrew McKee on Nov 1, 2009 at 3:02:05 pm in the Apple Color Forum It was done through Firewire so that may explain it. No chance of recapture now, it would mean redoing the edit as neither ProRes or HDMI have timecode. We have been quitting FCP so that wont be the issue. Would this be the same with ordinary capture


	Re: Black Magic Intensity by walter biscardi on Nov 1, 2009 at 2:44:30 pm in the Apple Color Forum Did you convert to ProRes via Firewire or through the card? When you convert to ProRes via Firewire it remains anamorphic and that has caused issues with other people using Color. The best way to convert HDV to ProRes is via a capture card that su


	Black Magic Intensity by Andrew McKee on Nov 1, 2009 at 2:08:29 pm in the Apple Color Forum Just installed a Black Magic Intensity Pro on a Mac Pro running FCS3. Someone is running a timeline with HDV 1080i footage transcoded to ProRes on capture. Getting an output fine out of FCP but when we send to Color and choose the same output setting


	Cannot playback 8 bit Blackmagic codec AVI files in Vegas 8.0c by Nicholas Kovats on Oct 30, 2009 at 11:49:35 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Hi. I sent the following question to Blackmagic support but have received no reply. I work predominately with Super 8 motion picture film which is typically transfered to DV AVI files. My transfer house now offers 8 bit Blackmagic codec AVI f


	Nearly Finished but need help with render settings by Francis Robertson on Oct 30, 2009 at 12:07:22 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum System Settings Final Cut Pro 7 2.66 Quad Core Mac Pro with 6g of Memory GeForce GT 120 512MB card Black Magic HD Extreme Sequence Settings 1920x1080 interlaced HDTV 16:9 Field dominance - upper (odd) Pixel - square Footage is a


	Hardware by Steven Gladstone on Oct 27, 2009 at 10:01:49 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Perhaps this belongs on the regular forum, but here goes. I'm getting ready to jump on one of the new macs. Thinking about the 27 inch Core i7 iMac. Right now, that would probably suit my needs well, but I'm limited in connectivity. So I'm thi


	HDV edit system setup by stephen pick on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:28:19 pm in the HDV Format Forum hi i work for a large college in essex, uk, as a video production lecturer and was wndering if someone would help me out with a few questions? we are currently running 18 final cut studio 2 suites on G5's with 4GB of RAM and split hard drives o


	HDV edit system setup by stephen pick on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:11:52 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum hi i work for a large college in essex, uk, as a video production lecturer and was wndering if someone would help me out with a few questions? we are currently running 18 final cut studio 2 suites on G5's with 4GB of RAM and split hard drives o


	Re: PPM meters on FCP by Francis Robertson on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:33:32 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi Steve, I too have bought that plugin and hooked it up to soundflower, however I can't figure out how to listen to the output of my black magic board at the same time, any tips?


	New to FCP - starting a 55min film - need tips to work with HDV by Ariel Brener on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:05:38 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Hello all, I'm making my first steps in migreting from Premiere Pro CS4 to FCP. I have 1 week to get used to it - because I have a big project incoming. I need to know what preps I need to do - to be fully prepared for this project. Here


	Mac Pro System for Sale by Lata Thomas on Oct 25, 2009 at 8:26:32 am in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Z0EM/ 3.0GH Apple Mac Pro Two 3.0GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon /4GB/ AT12600 XT/ 320GB/ SD/ Mac OS X v. 10.5 Leopard s/n: CK83103 NXYL Hard Drives 1 TB X 2 Serial ATA 3Gb/s: 7200 rpm HD M


	1440x1080 DVCPRO 50i to 1920x1080 10bit uncompressed 29.97? by eric pautsch on Oct 24, 2009 at 12:21:41 am in the HD High-End Forum Hi Folks This client has thrown another problem my way. He has a DVCPRO 1440x1080 50i FCP Sequence that needs to be be converted to 1920x1080 10bit Uncompressed 29.97 to be encoded for Blu Ray. It did a test in a FCP system using a Black Magic pre


	Re: BlackMagic Mini Convertor HDMI to HDSDI. several problems please help by Michael Pierre on Oct 22, 2009 at 3:57:17 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Yeah Bob you're right. I called Black Magic yesterday... the tech immediately knew the answer as he's had a bunch of the exact same Canon 5D MK II calls. Nonetheless, I'm returning the blackmagic for an AJA (which I wanted to get in the first place


	Re: Found a good reason to choose Kona over Matrox (hope you are listening matrox!) by Jason Brown on Oct 21, 2009 at 5:53:22 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Shane Ross] "Whether or not the MAC PRO delivers balanced audio...how does the CAPTURE CARD affect that? " Kona is an option in your system pref's from the mac menu as an audio output option - headphones - line out - digital out - Kona is there a


	Re: Rendering - Is it a black art? by Dave Haynie on Oct 21, 2009 at 5:08:51 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Rendering is a learned skill... there may be a little black magic, but it's not RF electronics design or anything (the "black art" stuff I've been doing lately in my day job). Basically, to get DVDA happy, you have to produce DVDA (and thus, DVD)


	capturing SDI by Michael Pentney on Oct 21, 2009 at 4:33:38 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum HI, I edit with FCP on an apple macbook pro (intel) I need to setup a system to capture digital SDI (or SDI) the cheapest way possible as on a tight budget! Can you get a pci card to slot in ready? Or do you need to use a standalone unit sim


	Re: Analog to sdi mini converter by Terry West on Oct 19, 2009 at 3:47:49 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum I have been making power cables for both the AJA and Redbyte converters for some time now. Usually to either Steadicam Power or Camera Power. But It depends on what my customers need (XLR, Anton Bauer PTap...). Does anyone on this forum know the size

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