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Blackmagic Deck Control
Blackmagic Deck Control is a basic utlity used for capture from, and recording
to your tape deck. It is controlled via RS-422 and uses the Sony™ RS-422
protocol.
It is designed to be used in conjunction with applications such as Adobe After
Effects® and Discreet Combustion™, which do not include their own deck
control capabilities.
Pixel formats supported by Blackmagic Deck Control are:
Blackmagic QuickTime™ R210 (10 bit uncompressed 4:4:4 RGB)
Blackmagic QuickTime™ v210 (10 bit uncompressed)
Blackmagic QuickTime™ (8 bit uncompressed)
Blackmagic QuickTime™ PhotoJPEG (compressed)
This utility can capture or playback one video clip at a time. The application
windows, of which there are two, are used for viewing clips and deck control.
The left window is the clip playback window and the right is the capture/deck
window.
NOTE:
Deck Control does not currently support AVI files, so you should not use
it for capture when working with applications such as Adobe Premere Pro™
Setting Up
1. Double click the Deck Control icon on your desktop to open the
application.
2. Open edit -> preferences. Select one of the Easy Setups from the drop
down menu.
3. Select your disk array as the capture location.
4. Click “OK.”
5. Select File-> open, and choose the video file you wish to playback. The
file will appear in the playback window. Click the “play” triangle below
the clip. You can also scrub the clip just like the QuickTime™ player.
Note:
Make sure the files you wish to play back are TV-formatted QuickTime™
files. If they’re not QuickTime™ files, you’ll not see your clip on the DeckLink
output. Deck Control will not playback AVI files but this is planned for a future
update.
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