HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems?
by Justin C.
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Apr 18, 2007 at 5:18:57 pm
I heard recently on a Digital Content Producer vlog that "friends don't let friends edit in HDV". If one uses the Intensity card from Blackmagic going HDMI into Final Cut Pro, do you avoid the pitfall of HDV and the long gop issues? That is, you don't lose frames?
Re: HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems? by Brian McCartney on Apr 18, 2007 at 10:19:05 pm
Capturing HDV to the DVCproHD codec in FCP seems to be one of the popular choices when trying to get away from native HDV editing. I use a Kona card for ingest but the Blackmagic stuff should support that workflow also. Of course when FCP 6 comes out with ProRes422 codec I might have to switch.
Re: HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems? by Michael Palmer on Apr 22, 2007 at 7:47:11 pm
I have the LHe Kona as well and this week I'm going to purchase the Convergent Design Nano Connect while on NAB special price for $395 so I can take the HDMI signal 1920x1080 uncompressed and convert to HD-SDI to stay completely digital. Also by using the DV timecode from the camera threw firewire this HD-SDI will be complete with A?V and TC off the master tape. I may also use the Pro Rez codec when it is out.
Michael Palmer
Re: HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems? by km7777 on Apr 20, 2007 at 4:32:50 pm
BlackMagic /Intensity also provides a very nice mjpeg codec that is about 50mbts..about twice the bitrate of hdv ..that is a very nice cross platform alternative. Very computer friendly and looks great. There is alway uncompressed which works great,pretty easy to edit but takes up a large amount of drive space.
Re: HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems? by Justin C. on May 15, 2007 at 3:02:22 pm
But...just so I'm clear...when you guys digitize with the Kona (or perhaps with the Black Magic Intensity) you get ALL the frames you're supposed to? No long GOP problems?
Re: HDMI & Black Magic Intensity Card = no long gop problems? by Michael Palmer on May 16, 2007 at 4:19:17 am
Yes you will have all of your frames, and you stay completely digital with the HDMI out to the Intensity (note the BM Intensity only is supported with Intel machines) or to the Convergent Design Nano or MI connect to the Kona card to covert HDV into an intermediate codec of your choice. DVC Pro HD is relatively small for storage and looks incredible. I just returned the Nano for the MI because I wanted to bring in A/V and time code threw the HD-SDI with my Kona LHe card and let the RS-422 control the deck using the VTR Exchange software from AJA. Shooting HDV is good, editing it isn't good. HDMI uncompresses the HDV and at this point it is the best it will ever be so capturing it in an all digital connection to and all I-frame codec is the best possible way to work with these cost effective camera's.
Michael Palmer
