• Blackmagic Design

  Anyone getting more capture settings in FCP than device supports?

  Posted by Tangier Clarke on April 3, 2009 at 5:48 pm

  I recently tried to do a live capture (Sony XDCAM EX1 ->SDI out ->Apple ProRes(HQ)) using my Multibridge Pro v2 using Final Cut Pro (latest) and couldn’t capture with the listed preset – 1080p24. I called BM in San Francisco and it turned out that I had an enormous list of capture presets that the device doesn’t support, not to mention it doesn’t support capture of that 1080p24 which is what we’re shooting.

  BM was certain I had additional software on my system, but the long list of capture settings I had in FCP were labeled “Blackmagic…”. the only other Quicktime extension I had was Perian (https://www.perian.org). This was not the culprit and I removed it to make sure. I was running decklink 6.8.7 driver at the time. I was instructed to uninstall the DL software and reinstall.

  After uninstall – BM setings were gone as they should have been.
  After reinstall – all of those same captures settings (supported and unsupported settings were there again rather than just the ones my device supports.

  Essentially because the choice were there, I was led to believe that I could capture with the settings – and this was on set, right before the next shot.

  Has anyone experienced this – having a large list of settings that their BM device doesn’t support mixed in with the ones it does?

  I can send link to a screenshot if anyone is unclear of what I am talking about.

  Tangier Clarke replied 17 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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