MultiClip w/BlackMagic uncompressed

looking for any feedback from anyone who may be working in uncompressed 8 bit and working w/multiclips

That's gonna be hard - I don't know what your drive situation is, but the bandwidth requirements for multiple streams of 8bit uncompressed is substantial.
I've used PhotoJPEG (black magic's OnlineJPEG) with multiclips and since PhotoJPEG doesn't do any realtime effects, I couldn't play the multi-clip in multiple windows. Even so, it was very usable as an editing tool.
Patrick

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File Import Error / distorted image CS3 3.2.0 - Blackmagic Uncompressed 10-bit YUV NTSC 4:3

Hi All-
I have been capturing some old VHS tapes using Blackmagic Media Express via a Decklink HD Extreme 2 card (composite in, RCA audio in) and then subsequently editing the files in Premiere Pro CS3 ver. 3.2.0. But I'm running into a strange problem with the image being very distorted upon import into Premiere.
The capture settings in Blackmagic Media Express are as follows: NTSC, Uncompressed 10-bit YUV, 29.97, drop frame. After capture and before editing in Premiere, I watch the capture file in Windows media player and it looks and sounds fine.
When I create a new Premiere project to edit the clip, I use the following preset: Blackmagic Design, NTSC, 10-bit YUV, 4 x 3.
When I import the .avi file created during the media express capture into the new Premiere project, the image becomes extremely distorted. However, if I choose any other preset in Premiere, the image looks OK, which seems strange because the other presets do not match the import file settings. I should note that when I render the distorted looking file out using the Premiere media encoder, the file looks OK.
Any suggestions? I cannot figure out why the video is not importing or showing correctly in Premiere. Help!
Thanks a bunch,
Rex

Has this process EVER produced non-distorted video when imported into Premiere?
If this is a NEW problem, then what has changed since the process last worked properly?
If this is a FIRST TIME process and problem, my guess is a video driver that is not 100% compatible with what you are doing... you provide no other information, so it could be you need a newer (or, sometimes, older) video driver
Windows updates have been known to cause problems
Work through all of the steps (ideas) listed at http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with ALL OF THE DETAILS asked for in the FINALLY section, the questions at the end of the troubleshooting link... most especially the codec used... see Question 1

Blackmagic uncompressed avi to quicktime

Here's a nice question to post on christmas eve (I've had my fill of sentimental films and good cheer - bah humbug)
I've been given some uncompressed avi files to use in my current edit (using fcp). They were captured from Beta sp using a PC and a Blackmagic card (don't know what model type, exactly).
They don't play in quicktime (or, therefor fcp). QT asks for a codec and so I downloaded the blackmagic codec from their website. it doesn't seem to help.
The format in the QT "get info" is...
"YUVU", 720x576, thousands
As I said this should be an uncompressed file.
I understand there is some issues between the PC version of uncompressed (avi) and the mac version (.mov) when using a Blackmagic card.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to try (apart from re-capturing on a more compatible device?)
happy christmas

I have found a solution, and in the interest of spreading the knowledge...
Quicktime has the codec to play back this uncompressed AVI movie that was captured on a PC/Blackmagic card. The problem is that the AVI does not tell quicktime correctly which codec to use. Quicktime is "confused" by the 4cc data. Its either a quirk of AVI vs Quicktime or a quirk of Blackmagic + Windows. Oh I dunno - its a quirk anyway.
Blackmagic tells me its a problem that can sorted by changing the "4cc code" of the movie file. As I understand things this is part of the some meta data of the movie file that identifies codec info. Blackmagic have a simple app that can edit the 4cc so that such an AVI will work on a mac/quicktime - it will also convert backwards so that it works on a PC. AFAIK this app is not on their website - I got it from Blackmagic support via email.
So there you go.

Capture Settings for uncompressed Video Vs DV Video

Im capturing footage from Digibeta masters via a J30 deck using a single SDI cable connected to my black magic extreme, (captured using the Blackmagic uncompressed 10 bit setting) editing in FCP and exporting to SD dvd via compressor using "dvd best quality 90 mins anamorphic".
Up untill today i had been using the same workflow EXCEPT i had been capturing over firewire using DV PAL anamorphic to work in the DV PAL format.
Comparing the final result of both workflows im not seeing a huge difference (the original footage is the same in both cases).
Are there any capture settings i can play with that will improve the quality of the final product or should i be looking at the bitrates in compressor instead?
I just want to make sure im not arsing up the capture and that i am capturing as much info as i can from the digibeta masters. The files created from he digi's are a lot larger then the files from the Dv stuff but i just dont feel im seeing that on screen - any advice?
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S

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Up untill recently i had been using the Digi to DV to DVD workflow i had described above. With a recent desktop upgrade i am now recapturing all the same material from the same Digimasters using the uncompressed 10bit to dvd workflow descibed above so that i can avoid the afrementioned dv compression in the middle.
Obviously i can see a difference between uncompressed and Dv footage natively but when i view them both on DVD on a PAL monitor i cant see as big a difference as i had hoped i would see.
can i improve this difference with my capture settings or do i need to work on my dvd bitrate settings or a combination of both?
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Blackmagic Intensity Pro - Video playback doesnt work

Hi there, I am experiencing some weird issues with Premiere CC and the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card.
I mainly use the card to playback my edit to an HD monitor. This has worked quite well, but as of today it stopped working.
Last time it stopped working I opened a different project (one I knew the card have worked before) to check and it was working. I did nothing and opened the project the card wasnt working and to my surprise it just worked.
Today I am having a problem as I cant make any of the projects work w the card.
It feels it works at random. I would appreciate any help on this.
Working on a Mac Pro Quad Core INtel 3.2GHz
Sequence is Blackmagic Uncompressed 23.97fps
Preferences>Playback - set to Blackmagic
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Pedro

hi,
ihave bought it and am using it with my quadcore g5 2.5 ..
for now i switched back to canopus because its much more stable and not
"touchy" when i jump around in the timeline...
but this may have a lot of other reasons ..
with finalcut its very nice ans stable, i think the drivers have been written
to be compatible with fcp rather than logic.
I wantd to have the picture for an HD Movie in Llogic but now i prfe to have
stability,
bets regards,
andy

BMPCC footage - BMD film (RAW) flat look?

A quick question for the CC / RAW workflow.
I have noticed that when importing the Blackmagic Pocket RAW into CC the image is not flat as filmed. Unlike in Resolve 10 / 11, I have not found an option to switch on the original flat look in CC.
Any ideas? I would like to control all of the color manually, and I can see some kind of LUT (?) already applied on import. When going to source settings, the "original" settings are not the flat ones.
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I can't say when I import my bmpcc raw files into premiere pro cc (and then premiere pro cc 2014) that it looses the 'flat' look.
When I import my bmpcc raw files into premiere pro cc 2014 it appears flat. I then export to Speedgrade to bring the colors out, then direct link back to PP.
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FCP 7.2 : colors in canvas change between paused frames and playing frames

To all the FCP-Experts...
Just before this project I switched from FCP 6 to 7 (clean install) and started using ProRes 422 HQ instead of Blackmagic Uncompressed 10bit.
To my surprise, the preview-picture in the canvas is never the same when playback is paused compared to a running playback. On an external monitor, this effect does not occur. Briefly, the colors when paused are much more saturated.
There are some other minor differences concerning filters when playing back or pausing the image, which I can live with, but the color-difference is most annoying.
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Error: "2vuy Not supported by media"

Hi,
Love the new efficiencies of compressor 2 for creating MPEG-2 and AC3 files.
However I'm seeing errors in the console when encoding from either Blackmagic uncompressed 8-bit YUV2 codec QuickTime files on 10.4.2 and also Animation codec files transcoded from the Blackmagic YUV2 source. Is this normal?
It reads:
CObjCAIFFTranscoder
CObjCM2VTranscoder
CObjCAIFFTranscoder
CObjCM2VTranscoder
CObjCAIFFTranscoder
Total time spent in GetData: 0.000000
CObjCM2VTranscoder
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Apple Uncompressed with BlackMagic codec installed

We have a problem with files that are in the Apple Uncompressed codec when the Black Magic codec is installed and wonder if someone here has experienced that?
With QT Player the movies plays fine but the name of the codec is empty in the info window. The sentence look like this:
", 720x576..." when it should say "Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2, 720x576...".
We tried to enter the Metadata information with a QT developer tool (Dumpster) and the info displays correctly in the info panel inside QT Player.
This doesn't make it better in Shake though, where we must enable "Force8bit" in the FileIn-node. If we don't do that we end up with a black picture or on some computers a perfect noise with some shades of contours.
If we uninstall the Black Magic codec we get the perfect picture in Shake but still the meta data is gone inside QT Player. We have also tried old versions of the Black Magic codec, even that old we had to flash the cards with old firmware so everything looks to point toward some QuickTime or System update. The files worked fine in november and hasn't been touched or moved since.
Anyone seen this?
Both PPC and Intels Mac OS X (10.4.8) Lates updates of everything

Yes, there seems to be an issue with blackmagic codecs and shake.
On our PowerPC computers, removing the blackmagic codec from the quicktime folder seemed to solve the problem.
But on our Intel machines, nothing seems to fix it. 8 bit footage always has digital noise. If you click the force 8bit button, it looks fine. But when rendered out using a third party plugin (The Foundry's Furnace plugins) the noise comes back.
HELP Apple and/or Black Magic!!!!

Jittery motion when editing to tape via Blackmagic SD

I have a situation that has me a bit perplexed, and I'm hoping one of you gurus can help. We will shoot DVCAM footage, capture into FCP (now at v5.03, but this occurred with earlier versions as well), and then export a quicktime movie (not using QuickTime conversion). I then bring the movie into After Effects, and do some compositing work, and render using Uncompressed 8 bit settings. I create a new sequence in FCP with matching settings (uncompressed 8 bit), and import the movie file I created in AE. Everything looks great on my computer monitor, but when I edit to tape, any moving objects (either effects or people in the video) jitter visibly when viewed on my broadcast monitor, and the resulting BetaSP tape. There are no unrendered sections of the sequence, and the the frame dominance is the same on the imported clip and the sequence.
I can apply the de-interlace filter in FCP, and that improves the image somewhat, but it's still visible.
Any suggestions?

... and the the frame dominance is the
same on the imported clip and the sequence.
it seems that the filed dominance is wrong:
upper or lower field dominace is determined by your blackmagic card and the codec used.
in your sequence settings use easy setup to load the correct settings for the codec you are using with your blackmagic card. after that, read what the field dominance is set to. use the same field dominance when rendering in AE.
good luck,
kurt

FCP Uncompressed Editing on a new Mac Pro

Hello everybody,
I too am about to empty my wallet into Apple's bank account.
I am upgrading my editing capacity and have the following wish list in order to edit compressed and uncompressed 8 or 10 bit high definition video shot with HDV and DVCPro HD camcorders:
Mac Pro - 2x 2.66GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Processors
2 GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card
1 x 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA (as boot drive)
3 x 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s (as striped footage drives)
Apple Cinema Display (20" flat panel - as main FCP screen)
Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel - as HD monitor)
I already own Final Cut Studio and run FCP 5.1.1
My questions are:
1. Is the above hard drive set up fast enough for 8 and/or 10 bit uncompressed HD/HDV editing?
2. Will I need any extra hardware - besides the graphics card - in order to see every single pixel of 1920 x 1080 footage?
I know others on the Apple Discussions forums have asked similar questions but I am still not certain which set up is best for me.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Dear Mr Jobs. Thanks in advance for allowing PAL users of FCP to edit 720 footage from Panasonic's HVX-200 camcorder.
Charlie
G4 PowerBook, 1.67GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Long-time FCP user
G4 PowerBook, 1.67GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Long-time FCP user

I have just found out that my plans for a Mac Pro with 4 internal drives (one as boot drive, the other three striped as footage RAID) will NOT be fast enough to edit uncompressed HD material.
I have just read this on the Black Magic Design website:
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test reported about 170 MB/sec which was easily fast enough for HD uncompressed 10 bit. However this three-disk internal solution is more suited to people needing simple capture and playback of HD, such as designers and effects artists. They just want simple clip capture and playback and the built-in three-disk array is a great solution for them. There are also newer 750 GB disks, which are faster, and so performance could increase further.
For editors who have hundreds of cuts and/or effects in their projects, we would strongly recommend an external disk array with multiple disks.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=60#intel_tiger
An external RAID system will have to be the way forward for me for now. Thanks to you all for trying to answer my questions.
Charlie.

BlackMagic Intensity Pro Capture Card & (3) 1TB Internal Hard Drives

Hello,
This is my first time using BM Intensity Pro. Prior to tonight all I used was FW400 & iMovie/iDVD.
I have now upgraded to Final Cut Studio with a BM Intensity Pro Capture Card and Three 1TB Hard Drives (7200 RPM with 32MB cache) - Striped as a RAID set to create ONE 2.7 TB HD for Video Storage.
I have a few questions that I would like some help with.
I would like to capture at the highest video quality possible.
I'm worried that Hard Drives wont be able to handle the capture speed or file size?
I ran the BM Disk Speed Test. I'm just not sure what all these numbers mean?
Can someone please explain to me what the following information is telling me?
Do the results mean that I'm good to go with uncompressed HDV via HDMI?
The first is my OEM Mac Hard Drive. The second is my 3TB RAID set.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Results
Date: 2009-06-07 22:10:23 -0400
Mac OS X Version: 10.5.7
Physical Memory: 2047 MB
QuickTime Version: 7.6.2
Read Speed: 62.5 MB/s
Write Speed: 60.9 MB/s
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Results
Date: 2009-06-07 22:13:26 -0400
Mac OS X Version: 10.5.7
Physical Memory: 2047 MB
QuickTime Version: 7.6.2
Read Speed: 314.9 MB/s
Write Speed: 310.0 MB/s

About using the speed test:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/864289
I would invest in an external RAID controller.
You can find a variety of such from AMUG in RAID5/6 that will support higher sustained thruput.
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/reviews.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/4322/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard115.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/3522/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard101.html
Those should also give you a better feel for what to do with those numbers and what to look for.

FCP to PP Blackmagic frame rate settings question

Hello everyone. FCP to PP editor here, and as I attempt to monitor my AVC-Intra 100 1080HD 23.976 footage on an external monitor via my Blackmagic Studio card, I seem to be missing a setting that was available in FCP 7.
I'm hoping someone can help me either find the switch or confirm that it does not exist in PP.
The video output menu in FCP7 (when used with Blackmagic cards anyway) has a handy 23.976 ->59.94 8 bit HD conversion output that allows me to monitor in a frame rate my consumer Samsung display can accept.
In Premiere CS 5.5, I understand that I need to choose the Blackmagic sequence preset that matches my footage (I've chosen the Uncompressed preset at 1080HD/23.976 so I can also choose ProRes422 for my preview file codec). My external monitor can't display 23.976, so I'm hoping there's a way to tell my Blackmagic card to still do that conversion I'm so fond of in FCP7 (to 59.94)... Whether it's through a Blackmagic setting or a PP setting, I'd like to know if it's possible. I know the hardware can do it... just wondering if there's a way PP can acheive it.
By the way, I did have the thought to use a 29.97 sequence/timeline, and it works great for monitoring, but playback continually stops, even when files have been rendered.
Thanks so much for any input!
Banks

Richard,
Thanks very much for the response. It's not there on my Mac. I do have 9.5 installed (did it last week).
I'll give BMD a call. I have a Decklink Studio 2, which may not have the option at the card level. Strange, though, since I know the hardware can do it. Perhaps BMD has a way to flip the switch.
Thanks,
Banks

Digital noise using Apple 10-bit uncompressed codec for NTSC, BIG PROBLEM!

I hope someone from Apple or the Shake team can shed some light on this problem we're having so we can take the appropriate corrective action ASAP to meet our strict deadlines on this current project.
We're compositing all the EFX (over 1000 EXF shots) for a massive video game project that needs to be delivered to the client by the end of May. Let me preface the following comments by saying that overall, we're very pleased with Shake and the end results we're getting, but one problem in particular has us very worried about making our deadline:
The project is entirely bluescreen with CGI plates, shot on anamorphic Digibeta and captured into FCP as uncompressed 10 bit. 4:2:2 through a Blackmagic HD Extreme card (via SDI).
All the 4:2:2 material exhibits (for lack of a better desciption) digital "noise" that runs along the right-hand edge of the video, with frequent drop-out "looking" sparkles that can appear anywhere in the video image. These artifacts ONLY appear when the video clips are imported into Shake, and rendered out of Shake. They play perfectly fine in FCP and QT player.
If we force the FILE-IN node to 8 bit, the problem goes away, but keying suffers - so this is not an option.
The problem ONLY occurs on our Intel Mac's, not on our older G5's. The reason we invested in the Mac Pro's for this project was to reap the performance boost we desired in order to get the project out the door by our deadline, plus the G5's are busy offlining upcoming episodes - so turning the compositing over to the G5's is also not an option.
We're already well down the road, and while we realize that at Shake's current price-point it seems silly to complain at all, we gladly would have paid more for a compositing tool if we knew we were going to run into a situation like this. Unforunately, our initial evaluation of Shake was done on our G5's which don't suffer from this issue.
If anyone from has any recommendation for an efficient way to solve or work around this issue, we'd love to hear from you.
Best regards,
Michael Buday

Not sure the exact answer, but some options to try:
1) have you tried converting the clips to image
sequences? Perhaps it's a QuickTime error.
2) How about using 2 FileIns - one at 10 bit to
generate the keys and one at 8 bit for the fill?
Patrick
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Hello Patrick and thanks for your suggestion:
We're going to experiment with different codecs and image sequences this week to see what happens.
RE: using different FILEIN's for key/fill, is something I hadn't thought of but unfortunately the 10bit FILEIN would still be affected by the noise which would in turn affect the alpha channel created by Keylight or Primatte.
I'll let you know what we find out as things progress.
Again, thanks.
Michael
G5 Dual 1.8 GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.3) FCP 5.03, STO 1.01

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