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  No Input with Decklink HD, FCP 4.5 and Digibeta

  Posted by John Christie on June 29, 2005 at 5:24 pm

  I just installed a Decklink Pro HD card into my G5 FCP system. I’m running FCP 4.5 on a Dual 2 Gig with the Decklink card in the 133 Mhz slot.
  Everything is working well except capture. When I go into capture, the card switches to what looks like HD input and won’t allow me to capture SDI. All the capture settings are set for standard def NTSC. I’ve swapped the cables to make sure they are OK. I’ve tried feeding NTSC sync to the tri-level sync input. But I’m still getting no input.

  Any Ideas

  John Christie

  
  

  Luke Maslen replied 21 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Luke Maslen

  June 30, 2005 at 4:58 am

  Hi John,

  Firstly, please ensure you are using DeckLink v4.8 drivers with Final Cut Pro HD v4.5. The newer DeckLink v5.0 drivers cannot be used with FCPv4.5 and are designed for use with FCPv5.0. You can use the Blackmagic DeckLink Uninstaller to remove the v5.0 drivers if they are currently installed.

  To work in SD, launch Final Cut Pro HD v4.5, go to the Final Cut Pro HD menu and choose Easy Setups. Then choose one of the Blackmagic NTSC or PAL easy setups. This will configure the DeckLink HD card to capture in SD mode and you should be able to capture.

  If this still fails, quit from FCP, launch Blackmagic Deck Control and select an NTSC or PAL easy setup from it’s preferences. Now try to capture your SD material. If this works, then there must be some setting in FCPv4.5 which needs to be changed as it should be working just fine.

  Regards,

  Luke Maslen
  Blackmagic Design

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