Video Engine in PT 11.1

[nst7]

Originally Posted by capt kirk

wouldnt touch 11 with a 10 foot pole...too much work booked and in progress....maybe in a year or so when they finally make it work properly...

At that rate, you might as well wait for Protools 12, which by my estimation should be out this Fall at AES (a year and a half after 11).

[timothyd4y]

I upgraded to 11.1 yesterday. HDX on an HP z800. Took the plunge before laying back an hour long show. It's running really well. Fixed an aspect ratio issue I was having and has been very stable so far. Still not thrilled about the way output busses work in I/O setup, but so far so good with regard to video playback.

[yop22]

Originally Posted by nst7

At that rate, you might as well wait for Protools 12, which by my estimation should be out this Fall at AES (a year and a half after 11).

Yes but it would be nice to get a working 11 version before having to pay again fo 12...

[mgoorevich]

My conclusion is that if 11.2 will suffer from the same issues as it has till now, my PT HD11 will go on eBay…Hah! not so easy! Avid doesn't allow transfer for HD 11 asset.
So I just better shut up. Right Avid?

[Wizzoboy]

Capture.jpgJust a thought as to the delay in PT starting, have you set the video playback latency to "shortest" in the Preferences?

[garnoil]

Originally Posted by Wizzoboy

Attachment 1374Just a thought as to the delay in PT starting, have you set the video playback latency to "shortest" in the Preferences?

My system does not have a problem with this 'delay' that the OP talks about. He says it is a 'huge delay and renders PT 11 unusable'. I am now working on my 4th feature film in PT 11.1 and I have never seen this delay. There is under a 1/2 second wait time from the time I hit play for PT to start rolling. You can see this "tiny delay" if you look at the 'pause button' on the transport. When I hit play, the 'pause button' flashes for less than 1/2 second (I am guessing it is less than 1/2 second, it could even be shorter, but it is so short I don't even know how to measure it accurately). This 'start delay' for me is SHORTER than when I was using my Accel TDM2 with a 512 buffer. Sometimes on really heavy sessions I used to buffer up my TDM to 1024 and that was a long delay.

There are some really bad issues with the video engine, but for me, specifically this delay is NOT an issue and does not affect my work flow.

[yop22]

Originally Posted by garnoil

He says it is a 'huge delay and renders PT 11 unusable'.

In fact, I haven't mentioned the delay in the list of issues I'm experiencing because that was the only thing that was fixed in 11.1 as far as I'm concerned...
Nevertheless some other users are experiencing delays when using external video. This seems to be a Blackmagic issue.
Since starting this thread I've been experiencing less problems but the kind of randomness at which they occur definitely makes me think 11 is not totally ready yet...
Jerome

[garnoil]

Originally Posted by yop22

In fact, I haven't mentioned the delay in the list of issues I'm experiencing because that was the only thing that was fixed in 11.1 as far as I'm concerned...
Nevertheless some other users are experiencing delays when using external video. This seems to be a Blackmagic issue.
Since starting this thread I've been experiencing less problems but the kind of randomness at which they occur definitely makes me think 11 is not totally ready yet...
Jerome

I was not referring to you (sorry about the misunderstanding), I think it was mggoorevich who was active in this thread, and who was reporting and unfortunately appears to be experiencing the huge delay problem. His thread was also picked up by Pro-Tools Expert because his system is un-usable because his delay. I also have the BlackMagic card, the Decklink HD Extreme, and I do not see the delay others are reporting.

I also have some video issues but not related to the delay, for example, a Pro-Res HD that plays perfect in PT 10, imports as a weird 22 Frame rate and looks terrible and out of sync. I converted this Pro Res to Avid codec HDnx and that now it works perfectly.

[mgoorevich]

I never said that I had a huge delay. But, yes I still have 1/2 sec delay on pressing playback. And for me it is huge especially when I edit dialogs. When I owned HD3 Accel I never saw it on a small dialog session. It did increased with the tack count and buffer size, but then again at the mix stage its less a problem as I prefer to concentrate on other things rather editing.
But Foleys, BG, SFX and all other editing becomes a disaster for me with PT 11.1.1.
And I still have aspect ratio wierness while otputing DNxHD out SDI from the BM card.... But this is another story.

[garnoil]

Originally Posted by mgoorevich

I never said that I had a huge delay. But, yes I still have 1/2 sec delay on pressing playback. And for me it is huge especially when I edit dialogs. When I owned HD3 Accel I never saw it on a small dialog session. It did increased with the tack count and buffer size, but then again at the mix stage its less a problem as I prefer to concentrate on other things rather editing.
But Foleys, BG, SFX and all other editing becomes a disaster for me with PT 11.1.1.
And I still have aspect ratio wierness while otputing DNxHD out SDI from the BM card.... But this is another story.

Really????this is one of your posts:

nfortunately Avid support is not very helpful in my case either.
I had pretty long email correspondence and even supplied to Avid problematic files and sessions….but the problem still persists.
From my point of view it's far away from the solution even though they fixed black screen issues in 11.1.
There still a huge delay when pressing playback.
There is still an issue when randomly PT doesn't start playing after hitting play.
I still have no success for BM SDI to feed our Christie cinema projector.
With PT 10.3.8 it works perfect.