• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 4/5/2013

  RE: what video capture card to buy to record from DVR?
  You may be going places you really don't want to go. Consider the outputs of your chosen broadcast receiver device. 1) You are probably correct the HDMI will have protect. a no go 2) You cannot really record component without getting overly complex.
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 4/5/2013

  what video capture card to buy to record from DVR?
  have a need to record some material from broadcast TV, and then edit inside vegas pro 12. The Verizon Fios dvr box that has the material has hdmi out as well as component. Material was recorded in HD. The HDMI output from the fios dvr is probably
• Video

  55 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

  RE: Using XML Export in Vegas Question
  For anyone that cares: I've posted a script here that infers the timecode from Blackmagic Cinema Camera files and sets the custom timecode in VP12 to the correct timecode. It seems to work for both QuickTime (DNxHD) files from the camera and
• Scripting

  4 answers, most recent on 6/2/2013

  Script to add timecode to (some) QuickTime files
  The purpose of this post is twofold: 1. To provide a script that solves a problem (that admittedly probably plagues only a few people). Code is below. 2. To ask for help in accessing QuickTime from within a script (to get a QuickTime timecode from
• Video

  2 answers, most recent on 3/24/2013

  RE: XML and EDL concerns summary database
  The following post goes into some depth about handling the new BlackMagic Design camera files and use of Cineform for transcode. Transcoding to a format that an NLE should read and write is an important step to crossing and roundripping in different
• Video

  55 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

  RE: Using XML Export in Vegas Question
  JasonAtl, I appreciate very much that you now have explained your process flow, and as you suggest, this is a very well understood application (at least in theory). There has been a lot of discussion among editors about how to deal with BlackMagic's
• Video

  22 answers, most recent on 3/8/2013

  RE: 8 bit vs 32 bit image sequence: major differences
  Bob - If ProRes is 8 bit, then that is the solution. But the file reports as 1920x1080x24, Apple ProRes 4444. Light bulb moment - does Vegas 8 bit mean 8 bits PER CHANNEL (3 channels), equaling 24 bit in total? musicvid - I know what you mean re:
• Video

  8 answers, most recent on 2/22/2013

  RE: Risky to install Vegas 12 when Vegas 10 works?
  The risk you run comes from incompatible hardware and its drivers interacting with the diff versions of Vegas. The best example is trying to operate an advanced video card setup with GPU set to on. But really there are many other scenarios, from
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 2/21/2013

  RE: Black Magic Decklink & VP12
  You may not agree with it, or particularly like it, but the unstated policy of BlackMagic design and development - if the parties do not get together (i.e., in this case SCS and Blackmagic,) to discuss and work on continued development plans - then
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 2/21/2013

  RE: Black Magic Decklink & VP12
  Has anyone else noticed that in Blackmagic's Decklink & Intensity spec pages they only claim compatibility with Vegas 9? During the last several years they have kept-up with other NLE updates, like CS6, but no mention of Vegas 10, 11, or 12
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 2/20/2013

  Quality issues working with DVD footage
  I do a reasonable amount of showreel compilations - actors/musicians/dancers supplying footage of past performances on DVD, which I then capture and compile. My experience is that it is very difficult to get the footage looking good - interlacing
• Video

  One answer, on 2/17/2013

  RE: Sony Vegas 12 pro vs HD Spark
  The HD spark will work with Grass Valleys Edius or Neo only. For Vegas one can use the Intensity Pro of Blackmagic.
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  RE: SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  I have not had any problems with SSD drives in my Hyperdeck. BlackMagic is very specific about which SSD drives are compatible (ie fast enough for uncompressed). I suspect some are trying drives which are not on approved list and are having
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  RE: SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  R-Evolution: You still have not been clear about what your process and your goal might be. At one point I thought you were talking live streaming from a field location. In look at your specs - you appear to be a Firewire based customer /editor.
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  RE: SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  The live HDMI output from most HDV camcorders is 4:2:2 8-bit uncompressed with uncompressed audio. I have used the Blackmagic Intensity in conjunction with the Cineform codec to capture live output from the camcorder, it looks [i]significantly[/]
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  RE: SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  Good Point: a Low Cost Consumer Camera can be either SD or HD. (I guess I just read my situation into it as I have access to many affordable SD/DV shooters but myself shoot & deliver HD) hmmm... If I were shooting HD (as I do) I wouldn't care
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  RE: SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  I am fully acquainted with the engineers at BlackMagic, and I fully support their product line for broadcasting. HOWEVER, what you have taken slightly out of context, and misinterpreted - is something that the BlackMagic people hand over to
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 2/14/2013

  SOT: Blackmagic Intensity
  http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity Under the heading, "Highest Quality Video", it states; Capturing directly with Intensity bypasses camera compression by recording directly from the camera's image sensor, - Can anyone offer an
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 1/23/2013

  RE: OT: Metabones Speed Booster.
  Bob, Thanks for the link from Roger. I really trust his take on things to be fair. I'm a fan of LensRentals, having rented and bought from them quite a bit. They've always delivered on what was promised. The existence of the Speed Booster is
• Video

  14 answers, most recent on 7/16/2013

  Intermittent black video in preview & render
  Since installing ver 12 I've been experiencing intermittent problems with both the preview window and the results of renders where the video is black. My timeline always has a few clips of AVI with a Blackmagic motion JPEG codec. Sometimes levels
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 12/30/2012

  RE: Uncompressed 10 Bit QuickTime = no video stream
  I don't use Blackmagic hardware. The codec even works without a card.
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 12/30/2012

  RE: Uncompressed 10 Bit QuickTime = no video stream
  Inside Vegas the option is there to output Quicktime 7 using Blackmagic 10 Bit. I rendered a loop region and it looks like it rendered it just fine. Almost 600mbits/sec, a little over 10 sec of footage and it output an almost 1 gig file. Sounds
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 12/30/2012

  RE: Uncompressed 10 Bit QuickTime = no video stream
  Did you install the codec? For me these Hyperdeck 10 bit Quicktime videos work well in Vegas Pro after I installed the package "Desktop Video 9.6.6 for Windows" from Blackmagic.
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 12/30/2012

  Uncompressed 10 Bit QuickTime = no video stream
  Has anyone else had problems with the Blackmagic Hyperdeck Shuttle 2 when recording "Uncompressed 10 Bit QuickTime" where Vegas doesn't recognize the video stream? I'm using Sony Vegas 10, and dropping the file in to a project results in only the