Instruction manual

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Third Party Applications
Adobe After Effects
It’s very easy to setup playback and rendering in Adobe After Effects
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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.
First, open Adobe After Effects
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and select the television standard frame size and frame rate you
wish to work with.
How to use DeckLink as a Preview Output Frame Buffer
To allow your Adobe After Effects
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composition to be displayed in real-time from your DeckLink
Card, go to Edit > Preferences > Video Preview. Set the Output Device to Blackmagic
Video Output and then select the desired Blackmagic RGB output mode. This lets you view your
Adobe After Effects
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compositions in video colorspace on your broadcast monitor as you work.
This means 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.
Create a New Composition
Go to the “Composition” menu and select Composition > New Composition (Control + n) In the
dialogue box, select an appropriate television standard from the pulldown menu. Click OK
For NTSC 720 x 486, select lower field first 
For PAL 720 x 576, select upper field first for uncompressed video 
For PAL DV, select lower field first 
For HD 1080i select 1920 x 1080, select upper field first 
For HD 1080 PsF select 1920 x 1080, select No Fields 
For HD 720p select 1280 x 720, select No Fields 
Rendering
When you have completed your composition, you will need to render to a pixel format supported
by DeckLink. Below is a list of supported codecs:
Blackmagic QuickTime 
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RGB (10 bit uncompressed)
Blackmagic QuickTime 
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(10 bit uncompressed)
Blackmagic QuickTime 
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(8 bit uncompressed)
Apple QuickTime 
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PhotoJPEG (compressed)
Apple QuickTime 
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DV - NTSC (compressed)
Apple QuickTime 
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DV - PAL (compressed)
Adobe After Effects.
Video Preview preferences.
Third Party Applications