• Blackmagic Design

  extended desktop news

  Posted by Evan Meades on March 30, 2010 at 6:27 am

  Hi, I am hoping there is some good news regarding enabling the Extended Desktop feature in Decklink cards.

  I found a few older posts on this matter but nothing recently. It seems if the AJA cards can still do this why not Decklink. I am hoping it will be a preference at least in a new driver!

  In the meantime can someone please tell me the last driver that had this feature. Mac 10.5.8 Studio card.

  Cheers Evan.

  Oliver Petz replied 16 years ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Mike Drew

  March 31, 2010 at 12:46 am

  Just going to add my voice to this request.

  Cheers
  Mike

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  Andre Racine

  March 31, 2010 at 1:50 pm

  A VERY important function of the card… please bring it back (windows platform here)
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  Evan Meades

  April 1, 2010 at 4:53 am

  Okay, spoke with Blackmagic direct and it seems they are well aware that lots want this feature back. Told it was not a “simple’ thing to put back in, even switchable in the prefs.

  So bottom line is, they are considering it.But my guess is it’s not gunna happen.

  Doesn’t help me as the 1 lane cards such as my Decklink Studio didn’t do it anyway. I could upgrade to say the Extreme HD card but then I would have to run the old driver pre 7.3 so 7.2….just to get this feature and maybe the related headaches with OS/Quicktime updates or continually reloading the old/new drivers plus firmware too!

  Trying to find another way to do what I want but unless other software like FCP, Studio etc has a “video Out” choice I’m stuck.

  Evan

  Cheers!

  Evan
  G5 Dual 2, 10.4.8, FCPHD 6, AEPB CS3, Decklink Extreme , Motion2 (Apple Sudio Suite yada yada)
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  Mike Halper

  April 12, 2010 at 6:45 pm

  Switch to Kona. They have the same feature available with no sign that they’ll suddenly disable it. This was an important feature that was a major selling point for me personally. Very disappointed with Blackmagic Design.
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  Oliver Petz

  April 19, 2010 at 12:16 pm

  for me it is also unbeleavable that blackmagic disable this feature.
  that function was one of the important features for me because i also work with cinema4d, samplitude pro and nuendo. with all applications i have a videopreview on my SDI-Monitor which is great!

  unfortunately i bought a decklinkcard again ( decklink HDextreme3 )
  and i dont recognized that blackmagic killed the extended desktop-feature.

  that was definitvly my last product from blackmagic. not only for that reason, also this buggy drivers all over the years driving my crazy.

  i hope i find another good card with an extended desktop-feature.
  sorry for my lousy english and greetings from germany.

  Decklink Extreme3
  Sony Digibeta DVW-A500P and DVWA510P
  nvidia gtx 260
  ASUS P5WDG2 WS Professional
  8GB RAM
  QX 6850 quadcore extreme
  Xp Prof. 64-BIT
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