Instruction manual

Third Party Applications

Adobe After Effects CS5

It’s very easy to setup playback and rendering in Adobe After Effects

for a complete broadcast and design

workstation that connects direct to decks for capture and playback of clips. DeckLink also supports real

time preview while working on your compositions.

Create a New Composition

Go to the “Composition” menu and select

Composition > New Composition (Control + n) In the

dialogue box, select the desired television standard from the pulldown menu. Click

How to use DeckLink as a Preview Output Frame Buffer

To allow your Adobe After Effects composition to be displayed in real-time through your DeckLink, go to

Edit > Preferences > Video Preview

. Select Blackmagic Video Output and the appropriate

Output Mode. This lets you view your Adobe After Effects compositions in the correct video colorspace on

your broadcast monitor as you work. You will always see the correct color and interlace when working, and

you don’t have to wait until your composition is rendered to see what it looks like when output as video.

Rendering

When you have completed your composition, you will need to render to a pixel format supported by

DeckLink. Following is a list of some supported codecs:

Launching Adobe After Effects

“Video Preview” preferences

“Composition Settings” options

AVI codecs

Blackmagic 10 bit 4:4:4 (RGB) 

Blackmagic 10 bit 4:2:2 

Blackmagic HD 8 bit 4:2:2 

Blackmagic SD 8 bit 4:2:2 

Blackmagic 8 bit MJPEG 

Adobe DVCPRO HD 

Adobe DVCPRO50 

QuickTime codecs

Blackmagic RGB 10 bit (4:4:4) 

Blackmagic 10 bit 

Blackmagic 8 bit 

Blackmagic 8 bit (2Vuy) 

Apple Photo-JPEG 

Apple DV - NTSC 

Apple DV - PAL 