Hello All,

We are just beginning to get our Deko 3000 and Thunder MX systems ready for air. We are currently experiencing problems when we ingest clips. Our graphics package has a significant amount of blue, reds, oranges, that mix from color to color and when we render these fullscreen background animations in After Effects using the prescribed Pinnacle DV Codec we notice banding/digital "smudging" when playing from the Deko and Thunder. (and when looking at the file in Windows Media Player) Also our horizontal scrolling text does not look as clean as we believe it should (looks jagged etc...). We have already checked to make sure that the lower field is being rendered first and for good measure have tried no fields, and upper field first.

When we use these same backgrounds in Chyron's Aprisa VCS we are able to import TGA sequences and we do not notice the banding or horizontal scrolling text issue.

Unfortunately, the Deko 3000 does not allow importing of TGA sequences.

We also have the Thunder MX which is suppose to be able to import TGA Sequences (it uses quicktime which our engineers are currently installing) from here we thought we should then be able to export the clip now converted into Pinnacles preferred MXF format into the Deko 3000. But when we try to play the clip we get a hardware codec error. We are currently working with Pinnacle on this.

But I was wondering how other shops are getting stuff into these Pinnacle systems and what their experiences have been.

Any sharing would be helpful.

Thanks,

Clint
WLUK-TV Green Bay, WI