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  3 answers, most recent on 11/26/2014

  RE: Vegas Pro 12 to Resolve 11 Pro question
  I am pretty old school in this regard, I prefer to import my camera footage into Resolve and grade it, then pass it on to Vegas for editing as a high quality intermediate, I do not use proxies. This goes back to my earlier days of grading film and
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  19 answers, most recent on 11/24/2014

  RE: Capturing DV-AVI via Vegas
  +1 to everything John Cline posted. I agree with him that you get better results using an analog capture card instead of a DV/Firewire transfer, and indeed that is what I tried to use for many years. However, for consumer analog video formats, the
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  19 answers, most recent on 11/24/2014

  RE: Capturing DV-AVI via Vegas
  I do a LOT of capturing of analog footage (1-inch, BetaCam, 3/4" and VHS/Betamax) for high quality digital archiving and this footage also ends up on DVD. I can often see the difference between video captured at 4:2:2 and 4:1:1, particularly on
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  19 answers, most recent on 11/24/2014

  RE: Capturing DV-AVI via Vegas
  If you are using SD DV source for the capture - you cannot exceed the 4.2.0 native of the file codec. Yes, you could use BlackMagic but it will not offer you anything more than you have got. The most efficient will be the DV capture over standard
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  No answers, created on 11/15/2014

  BMD Decklink Studio 2 Capture Audio Channels
  Using a Win7 64 bit i5 machine, and a BMD BlackMagic Digital Decklink Studio 2 I'm having trouble selecting the number of audio channels to capture. The Decklink dialog is available, and I select 2 channels on that dialog, but when capturing in
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  21 answers, most recent on 11/17/2014

  RE: One month response time... really?
  I teach Premiere Pro CC at a local university and use Vegas for most commercial projects. Vegas is more efficient, there's no doubt about that if you use both platforms. Premiere is built on the assumption that you will use the source monitor for
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  22 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  RE: OT: Blackmagic announces Fusion 7 for free
  John222, Blackmagic has a Fusion forum on their site. There are a number of tutorials on the Blackmagic site as well as on YouTube. The best place to start is with Eyeon, the original owners. eyeon software After that, do a search for Digital Fusion
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  22 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  RE: OT: Blackmagic announces Fusion 7 for free
  [I]I don't know what the logic behind giving it away is.[/I] It is part of the business plan of Blackmagic. The founder, Grant Petty, has always espoused the view that many products are way overpriced, and he demonstrated this when Blackmagic took
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 11/12/2014

  RE: Capture hdmi
  Check out the Blackmagic Design - Intensity line of devices. Be sure to do a search on this forum for compatibility with Vegas. Mike
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  22 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  RE: OT: Blackmagic announces Fusion 7 for free
  I have downloaded it but not yet installed on my post machine. I note "Fusion requires Apple Quicktime to be installed on the workstation in order to read and write to the MOV and PNG file formats". I find no other references to video file format,
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  22 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  RE: OT: Blackmagic announces Fusion 7 for free
  Bob, there is now a dedicated section on the Blackmagic forum for Fusion, and there are no posts in there (that I could find) that mention not being able to import common file types. See: http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewforum.php?f=22
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  22 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  OT: Blackmagic announces Fusion 7 for free
  There is a pro version for $995 but the basic version is free. The free version is not limited in any significant capacity with the exception that it doesn't offer support for 3rd party OFX plugins and it can't output resolutions higher than QHD. I
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  21 answers, most recent on 11/20/2014

  RE: WOT: Moviestuff Retro 8
  David. I dont have much of tools for actual restoration work on the films. I do have NeatVideo which may help a bit althought it is more for noise rather then scratches. Blackmagic Design has some fantastic software for it if you have the funds
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  5 answers, most recent on 11/2/2014

  A possible workflow for the GoPro Hero4
  Some of you may recall some time ago I bought a Sony AS100VR for use in my work, primarily because I wanted the image stabilisation feature. Unfortunately I was not happy with the camera due to the severe fisheye distortion and the odd clumpy video
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  18 answers, most recent on 10/25/2014

  RE: OT: very inexpensive alternative angle cam is?
  A Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio switcher has both SDI and HDMI inputs. The BMPCC would be a bit more difficult to use in a studio situation as it does not have continuous auto-focus or exposure, you have to press the focus or iris button each
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  91 answers, most recent on 5/17/2015

  RE: The Quadcopter saga continues
  Ian Cresswell has a Droidworx Skyjib X4 Octocopter, flying a Blackmagic Production Camera 4k, and this is a link to his showreel. It is worth a look at. I post this for enjoyment, as the copter is well above the level of the Phantom, but Ian's
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  34 answers, most recent on 11/16/2014

  RE: New Computer for Pro 13
  M.2 performance and ranking - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-xp941-z97-pci-express,3826-8.html I think AMD and NVIDIA are both doing special things to limit or tweek their GPU lines for marketing reasons. It will be interesting to
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  14 answers, most recent on 10/3/2014

  RE: V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
  I appreciate all your trying to say - but unfortunately it does not add up in the real world. VegasPro edits appropriately with 10bit digitial intermediate codecs such as Cineform, Avid, Sony MXF, and BlackMagic Design. For the most part you do
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  48 answers, most recent on 9/22/2014

  RE: ProRes in Windows (and Vegas)
  JohnnyRoy:If this is the case then it may explain why the ffmbc video wasn't flagged as needing rendering... it had no audio. About ffmbc. I have read posts in the ffmpeg list is that ffmbc was patched to use chunk sizes that Apple don't not
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  48 answers, most recent on 9/22/2014

  RE: ProRes in Windows (and Vegas)
  Would like to know the inherent chunk size these were created with. The chuck size issue seems to be all about the size of the audio chunks. Nothing to do with video. The word I can find, in the ffmpeg list, is that Apple prefers about 48000
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  98 answers, most recent on 2/18/2017

  RE: I found the best graphics card for Vegas Pro 12.0
  When choosing graphics card, don't get caught out by the limited output display resolution of the older cards. The HD 6970 and the GTX 580 are limited to 2560 x 1600. If you have any intention of working with 4k and monitoring in 4k during the
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  6 answers, most recent on 9/12/2014

  RE: BMD buys Eyeon Fusion
  I agree with Bob, because that is the Blackmagic philosophy, make great products available at realistic prices.
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  14 answers, most recent on 9/15/2014

  RE: QuickTime 7.6.2 discovered something frustrating
  Win 7 or greater? Using user account control? Are you the sole admin and owner of the file system? Did you install Quicktime after or before VegasPro? Did you install both applications as the admin? What codecs if any are you working with
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  10 answers, most recent on 8/29/2014

  How to turn off date display?
  Our church has just installed a Panasonic HC-V750 camera and Blackmagic HyperDeck SSD recorder. HDMI output of the camera is fed to HDMI input of the recorder. Yesterday we recorded a service on both the camera's chip and the HyperDeck"s SSD. I