Premiere 4K source playback in HD?
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:58 pm
I've got a new Decklink Studio 4K card that I'm trying to use in Premiere (Windows) and am running into what seems like a limitation with the Decklink software, but I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong and this can be fixed..
Basically I have 4K source material but am only editing in HD; the output of the Decklink is running into an SDI->HDMI mini converter (also BM) feeding a consumer HD monitor. It seems like however whenever you load a clip into the source monitor in Premiere, the Decklink is trying to change the output of the card to match the format and framerate of the source clip rather than leaving it alone matching the sequence settings. Which in this case means the monitor goes black.. and then you click back on the sequence viewer and the Decklink switches back to HD (which takes several seconds as the monitor flashes and resyncs to seeing a signal it understands.)
With my other systems with AJA cards, Premiere (or the Kona driver for it, I'm not sure whose responsibility it is) just scales the source clips to HD and everything works fine.
Can the Decklink not do this in Premiere, or am I just missing the magic combination of config settings?
Basically I have 4K source material but am only editing in HD; the output of the Decklink is running into an SDI->HDMI mini converter (also BM) feeding a consumer HD monitor. It seems like however whenever you load a clip into the source monitor in Premiere, the Decklink is trying to change the output of the card to match the format and framerate of the source clip rather than leaving it alone matching the sequence settings. Which in this case means the monitor goes black.. and then you click back on the sequence viewer and the Decklink switches back to HD (which takes several seconds as the monitor flashes and resyncs to seeing a signal it understands.)
With my other systems with AJA cards, Premiere (or the Kona driver for it, I'm not sure whose responsibility it is) just scales the source clips to HD and everything works fine.
Can the Decklink not do this in Premiere, or am I just missing the magic combination of config settings?