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  Blackmagic DV setting causing crash with Decklink Extreme

  Posted by James Leonard on June 21, 2005 at 12:21 pm

  Hi Everyone,
  I’m having some problems getting a stable DV preview out of my Decklink Extreme. I captured the DV footage on a laptop using the DV PAL preset then transfered the footage to our G5 and started a project with the Blackmagic DV – PAL preset, this works and I have a preview but when I work quickly Final Cut crashes. For instance when I ‘J’ or ‘L’ too quickly I get the spinning wheel of death.

  I’ve spent a night searching the forums and testing settings but have gone back to monitoring through a camera to cut today, this works with no problems but is what I bought the Decklink for. Does anyone else have these issues?

  Any help appreciated
  cheers James

  G5 2.7
  FCP5,Tiger,BM5.0B2
  1G Ram
  Decklink Extreme

  William Gaffney replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kristian Lam

  June 21, 2005 at 11:51 pm

  Hi James,

  We’re aware of this problem and a fix should be on it’s way soon. In the mean time, kindly download the v5.0b1 drivers here;

  https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/software/DeckLink_Macintosh_v5.0b1.zip

  Regards

  Kristian Lam
  Blackmagic Design
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  James Leonard

  June 22, 2005 at 2:14 pm

  Thanks Kristian that solved all the issues
  …cheers james
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  William Gaffney

  June 23, 2005 at 4:15 pm

  I have had this problem for a week or so and it has caused me some trouble to say the least. I downloaded the driver and everything seems OK so far.

  Would it not have been possible to have highlighted the problem considering you knew about it, a lot of forum searching and re-installing may have been prevented. That’s not a critisism but really a question on how issues such as this are communicated to users. Without the presence of forums such as creative cow we would be in big trouble.

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