4k timeline output 2k or 4k to ref monitor using I/O cards?

[Joel Arvidsson]

Does anybody here have a good solution for working with 4k timelines in Adobe premiere and outputting 4k or perhaps 2k to an ref monitor or plasma using an I/O card. What I/O card are you using?
Im also interested in 2k timelines and outputting 2k to ref monitor as a plan B.


There is a AJA Kona Lhe in the workstation now which seams to be hard to incorporate in to a good red workflow. Since we looking at using Davinci resolve, a BM card is highly interesting.
Wich Black Magic card would you choose if you're were only interesting in the output to reference montior and not the inputs. Also we are not planning to work with any stereoscopic any time soon.

There is coming a BM card named "DeckLink 4K" soon but I don´t understand if you can use it to output a 4k signal or not. It says 4k out sdi instead of hd-sdi?
Since this card is coming Im guessing it will support the GPUDirect (“Blackmagic Design is excited to support the new NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video technology being announced at IBC 2011”)


/Joel

[Luis Otero]

Black Magic Design family of cards (DeckLink 3D+for sure, and Intensity I believe will do it too via HDMI 1080p (read their specs to select which one to use).

[Pete Bohush]

I have a Black Magic Intensity Pro card and have problems with output to an HDMI monitor. It works fine ONLY IF the sequence settings are 1920x1080. Any other size setting and I get no video output thru the BM card. Sucks because I shot mostly in 2.4:1 aspect ratio (which scales down to 1920x800), but I need to set the sequences to 1920x1080 to edit in Premiere Pro (CS6 now.) Mixing in some DSLR footage or Red that the DP shot at 16:9 by accident or 2:1 for slo-mo just blows, as I have to crop the shots instead of letting the sequence frame size do it for me. I don't blame Adobe for this - it seems to be some conflict between PPro, BM card and the monitor (cheap Insignia LED TV.)

If anyone has a solution to getting video out of a BM Intensity at 1920x800 PLEASE post it. Thanks!

[On a Mac Pro 8-core, 14GB RAM, NVidia Quadro FX 4800 (for Mercury), Black Magic Intensity Pro (HDMI external monitor) and NVidia GeForce GT 120 (main monitor)]

[Craig Parkes]

If anyone has a solution to getting video out of a BM Intensity at 1920x800 PLEASE post it. Thanks!

Not a solution, just a confirmation that HDTV monitors will not be able to accept a 1920 x 800 signal - they aren't setup that way. You need to send them a broadcast signal they are setup to receive, and 1920x800 is not an accepted broadcast or delivery spec anywhere.