Anyone else trying to use a Decklink card for Offline work?

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On 8 Jun 2004 06:32:58 -0700, spammy@ridiculopathy.com (Lars Unrotin)
wrote:

>It appears that Decklink's so-called "OfflineRT support" is capture
>only. That's nice when you work in the fantasy land where clients
>don't want to actually see your work, but in the real world, it's just
>not acceptable.

You don't state what hardware you are using, but on FCP, you could
simply set your sequence-settings to something else which you _can_
output. It will require a re-render though.

>Oh, and the best part is that simply installing the card has disabled
>our ability to send the video out via firewire, so we're worse off
>than when we started. Thanks, Blackmagic.

From what I understand, you can still output to firewire, if you
choose the right codec. Now, we are still trying out the card, so I
haven't tried it myself, but the techie which installed the card,
thought it would be possible.

>We switched to a full-frame low-res config but then all of our
>real-time effects went out the window and the project swelled to twice
>its original size.

Well, it will require a re-render, but once you output your programme,
you can simply delete your render-files via the render-manager.

>It seems as though the card can't handle anything under 720x480/486.
>Has anyone else run into this?

I'll try later today and let you know. Oh, all the above is from
Mac/FCP perspective.

cheers

-martin-