| I run the Decklink HD Extreme 3D card on an older (but very upgraded) Mac Pro 3,1 along with a Quadro FX 4800 on displays and a Quadro 4000 on headless GPU grunt. I also run the EXCELLENT Flanders LM-2461W monitor on it.
In AE, the card displays 16 bit and 32 bit comps just fine, but on this output it you get choices of 8 bit, 10 bit or RGB. I choose RGB in 16 & 32bpc comps.
RAM Preview: When I engage the hardware for RAM previews I get reduced frame rates. I think that is the fault of my Mac itself and not the card. That generates a lot more bus traffic to send the image out the card and I don't think this mac can handle it. In the next few weeks I am going to be building a new PC that should have substantially more horsepower and will be moving the BMD card and the Flanders to that new system so I can report back at that time.
If you are interested, here's my review of the Flanders I did on my blog last spring:
All the best, Carey
Yes, thats the monitor we had for review, and it is looking really amazing. So good that i know of some who have dismissed it as being too good to evaluate what the picture would look like on a more "normal" screen :-D
But this PVM version doesn't have 3Gbps SDI or 4:4:4 input as the Flanders? And the interlace processor is not that good on the PVM sony, not that this is a problem for me, but for others in our company it might be. We would like to standardise on one brand.
Do you have a problem with the OLED "flicker" on this model? some had an issue with this when we had the review monitor, some didn't see it. I didn't, might be because of me having gone past the 35th birthday :-)...getting older...
I would love to have this Sony monitor at my desk :-)
Robert Kjettrup / Grafiker / STV Mayday Mobil: 25 18 95 16 Mail: robert@stvmayday.dk
2012/9/26 Brian Higgins <higgins@soldesignfx.com>
Sony PVM 24" OLEDs are amazing, and cost a only little more than the Flanders you mentioned.
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/product-PVM2541/
The features probably don't line up exactly with the Flanders, but at least take a look and see if it works for you. The $1k/inch BVMs are the same panels with fancier processing on the back end to cover things like XYZ space for DI mastering that you might not need. I've had a PVM on my desk for the last 6 months or so and have been very, very happy with it for broadcast work.
$.02,
BrianOn Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Robert Kjettrup <robert@stvmayday.dk> wrote:
Hi
I am reseaching a bit on what SDI card to get for a new AE workstation, and don't get any positive answers from Blackmagic on what support the Decklink Extreme 3D has in After Effects and thought maybe some here on the list uses this card and could give some more detailed feedback.
Can this card play back rampreview from AE in realtime in 16 and 32bit projects to a SDI monitor? My current outdated legacy AJA card (KONA/XENA LH) cant playback 1080/25p 16bit projects in realtime and 32bit projects is just a bunch of scrambled mess on the SDI output. AJA gives some very vague feedback that this card is not supported anymore and the new cards are "updated", but nothing about the new cards being able to handle 16/32bit projects.
We are also about to change all our old trusty SD CRT Barco reference monitors to something more current (about time!) and i have suggested we should go with Flanders Sci. LM2461W. Is this also in here seen as the best vs. value monitor?
We have had a Sony OLED monitor for review, and it is absolutely fantastic, but a bit pricy if you want the same options as the Flanders. Does anyone have the TVlogic XVM series?
hope this is not too Off Topic for the list?
Robert Kjettrup / Grafiker / STV Mayday
Mobil: 25 18 95 16
Mail: robert@stvmayday.dk
brian higgins | creative director
Sol Design
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