Hello.
I am really praying that someone out there can help me because my situation is driving me mad.
I used to edit DV on an old Canopus Raptor sysyem which was great and provided realtime preview to an external video monitor without any problems.
Then, after waiting for the HDV revolution to pass, I decided to upgrade to an HD set-up.
I recently built the system (Asus P6T Mobo, i7 CPU, 12mb Corsair RAM, GTX285 GPU), running Vista Business 64 (Will switch to Windows 7 when I can afford it).
A couple of years ago I won a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card as part of a film festival prize. I was delighted at the prospect of using the card to preview my edits direct from the Premiere Pro (4.2.1) timeline via HDMI, so I bought the most recommended LCD screen for video editing in my price range and set it all up.
On the first editing job I did, using P2 footage (720p), there was quite a bit of visible noise/compression in some of the shots. When the EDL was delivered to a professional online facility and the film was mastered, the noise was no longer apparent. I assumed they had perhaps filtered it out and didn't really think any more of it until now.
My two problems:
1) I am now editing another project, also from P2 in 720p, and just about every shot has visible noise. It is all shot outdoors in natural daylight so there is definitely no issue with the footage itself. Why does it look this way? My DV footage on my old system, played out to a video monitor, looked much better.
2) While both the audio and picture are coming out of the PC via the Intensity Pro card's HDMI, I cannot get the audio from the PC to my desktop speakers. My current workaround, which results in horrible audio distortion and genral bad quality, is to run a cable from the headphones socket in the LCD monitor to the PC. This is obviously no kind of solution. There must be a way to take the audio direct from the PC to the speakers without the Intensity preventing this, but I cannot find it.
Please help if you can! I am on a deadline to finish a job and editing is far from pleasureable while experiencing these problems.
Thanking anybody and everybody in advance,
Simon
I am really praying that someone out there can help me because my situation is driving me mad.
I used to edit DV on an old Canopus Raptor sysyem which was great and provided realtime preview to an external video monitor without any problems.
Then, after waiting for the HDV revolution to pass, I decided to upgrade to an HD set-up.
I recently built the system (Asus P6T Mobo, i7 CPU, 12mb Corsair RAM, GTX285 GPU), running Vista Business 64 (Will switch to Windows 7 when I can afford it).
A couple of years ago I won a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card as part of a film festival prize. I was delighted at the prospect of using the card to preview my edits direct from the Premiere Pro (4.2.1) timeline via HDMI, so I bought the most recommended LCD screen for video editing in my price range and set it all up.
On the first editing job I did, using P2 footage (720p), there was quite a bit of visible noise/compression in some of the shots. When the EDL was delivered to a professional online facility and the film was mastered, the noise was no longer apparent. I assumed they had perhaps filtered it out and didn't really think any more of it until now.
My two problems:
1) I am now editing another project, also from P2 in 720p, and just about every shot has visible noise. It is all shot outdoors in natural daylight so there is definitely no issue with the footage itself. Why does it look this way? My DV footage on my old system, played out to a video monitor, looked much better.
2) While both the audio and picture are coming out of the PC via the Intensity Pro card's HDMI, I cannot get the audio from the PC to my desktop speakers. My current workaround, which results in horrible audio distortion and genral bad quality, is to run a cable from the headphones socket in the LCD monitor to the PC. This is obviously no kind of solution. There must be a way to take the audio direct from the PC to the speakers without the Intensity preventing this, but I cannot find it.
Please help if you can! I am on a deadline to finish a job and editing is far from pleasureable while experiencing these problems.
Thanking anybody and everybody in advance,
Simon