Alex Ramos

You better reinstall the Blackmagic Desktop vídeo installer on the display computer. And you should see 2 driver options WDM and Decklink driver. Some inputs work with WDM others with Decklink driver. I always have to try to know. Remember if you want to see the capture on the production PC you need to have a card there to.

I really don't care if wo output 1 is windows output 1. Windows changes outputs as it pleases. I just address them correctly on wo to mach my needs.

Benoit correct me if I'm wrong. I don't use the -chunck flag because I almost always convert several files at the same time using my script. 3 files with -chunck 4 will be more than most CPU cores on the production laptops, will this cause a problem or the flag is ignored in this cases. Do the hyperthreas count as CPU units for the -chunck flag ? Can you please elaborate? Thanks

Disclaimer: This project is in no way affiliated with Dataton. Is of my own creation, use at your own risk, and is delivered as is. Hello all, Here is my gift for the community for this holiday. This is something I'm waiting to see implemented in WO for a long time. I bodged a countdown for the media playback. Sometimes we need to give a countdown on a media to the rest of the team, especially if the media is long and everybody else is waiting for the next cue. The file is attached, clean no virus. 😊 Also a VIDEO showing it. THIS FILE IS OUTDATED SEE THE LAST POST FOR LATEST VERSION WO Countdown.rar

Benoit, -dn removes all data info from the file, info such as metadata.

Thanks here is my Video reply. Alex

I’d like to propose everybody share their codecs, encoding settings and when to use what. I only use ffmpeg to convert clients files to run on WO6. Its always a compromise video quality vs hardware. I will not go into details of when to use what, its subjective. I do not have definitive codec as I had problems with all one time or the other. My 1st chose is HAP and HAP alpha and I always extract audio and use a video and audio file on WO. AS a backup option I have M-Jpeg, Mpeg2, Mpeg4. My Mpeg2 settings is for only intra frames, much like M-Jpeg, all settings set to high. ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -an -profile:v 1 -vcodec mpeg2video -qscale:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -pix_fmt yuv422p -r 25 "%n_name%_Mpeg2.m2v" For HAP and HAP alpha: ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -an -c:v hap "%n_name%_HAP.mov" ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -an -c:v hap -format hap_alpha "%n_name%_HAP.mov" For M-Jpeg: ffmpeg -i "%file%" -c:v mjpeg -dn -an -q:v 1 "%n_name%_M-JPEG.mov" For Mp4 i have a more compatible one for WO ans to use on Powerpoints. ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -vcodec libx264 -vf format=yuv420p "%n_name%_H264.mp4" And a "lossless" it is still only yuv420 and not yuv422, but quality is bumped very high, version just in case: ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -vcodec libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -qp 0 "%n_name%_H264LL.mp4" Backup transparecy Animation RLE: ffmpeg -i "%file%" -dn -an -r 25 -vcodec qtrle "%n_name%_RLE.mov" Feel free to coment and correct any thing, but please share your expirience. Feel free to comment and correct any thing (talking to you WO support), but please share your experience. Worst scenery, I’m sharing my experience and hope helps anyone. Sure will.

I had a similar problem and the culprit was the GPU driver.

The cenario was on a AMD cpu with a W7100. With an Intel cpu and W7100 the problem is gone and the video runs smooth. WO is very temperamental.

No ping response, check firewall also make sure the license key is properly inserted.

Hello all, Hap video jiters on the display machine, but plays well on the production stage window. If I add another video to the same timeline the jiter is gone and the HAP video plays well. Ive made some videos showing it. Please watch the video on youtube for better understanding of this bug. Can you explain it ? video 1 video 2

3 year away from WO makes you dum. 😁

Hello, I'm trying to capture HDMI using the DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K . With this card we can capture one or the other, HDMI OR SDI, not the two at the same time its a one input card. This means WO will only see it as one digital input device. The card works as it should on Media Express capturing SDI or HDMI All ok until here. The thing is. Even if on the display control panel Blackmagic's app the HDMI input is selected. This card always defaults to SDI on WO. I'm missing something here? Is there any workaround? How can I capture HDMI using this card in WO6? Thanks

Geometry correction and masking windows should be much bigger for better and precise control. This is a must.

You're the best. Thanks

Thanks I'm aware of this document, my doubt was on the WO side, if the string could send more elaborated commands. I guess I will cook some middle man app to send the JSON commands. Thanks Alex

Hello, Has anyone successfully controled Eventmaster by sending a string output directly from WO to E2? Eventmaster works with JSON format messages. If so can you point me on the right direction, please. Thanks

I believe that the server computer is using 4x the bandwidth and each client only 1x But you can confirm this by using HWinfo. https://www.hwinfo.com/ Run a copy on all computers, set the Production as client and all the other as servers. You can monitor everything that matters including network bandwidth.

I'd love to have the original file to try and find the "thing". If not confidential send me the link, I have some free time to kill.

Any gaming laptop will do great, Alienware, Razer, Rog, Stix... Big screen, strong GPU are the things to look for.

I took this as a challenge and based on JFK's instruction decided to try and make it. Here is my take on it, check the video and let me know if it does what you need. Video tutorial.

I don't know what you mean by "normal video" This only works if the original video is already using alpha channel. Ex: Apple Animation+ --> HapAlpha, Apple ProRes 444 --> HapAlpha PNG sequence+ --> HapAlpha This is the simplest command I can think of. ffmpeg -i [input file] -vcodec hap -format hap_alpha [output file.mov]

Christopher don't take this the wrong way, but you need to do some research on your one. Use google and youtube. Me and David give you all the info you need in the thread to convert any video to Hap using FFMPEG. About the compression rate, HAP has no adjustable ratio, its fixed, use Hap for good image quality and use HapQ for better quality. 1 -> Download FFMPEG for Windows from ffmpeg win64 2 -> Extract the contents of the Bin folder to your c:/windows/system32/ ignore the other files (This is not the correct way to do, but it's the easiest) 3 -> Place the attached .rar file on you Desktop and extract 4 -> Drag and Drop the original video file to the .bat, the new converted file will be placed on the Desktop Desktop.rar Edit: Hap requires the video resolutions to be multiples of 4. The .bat files will check the resolution of the input file before converting, and if needed change it to the nearest multiple of 4 number. Ex: original video 320x282 after conversion 320x280