Blackmagic 9.5.1 driver for Decklink SDI seems to crash Premiere Pro CS6 on Mac under Lion 10.7.4

[Myles Conti]

Hi,

I too have been experiencing similar problems, and am working with a Blackmagic card. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot – last night I thought it had something to do with Red Giant colour look plugin, as things improved after I removed these filters, but then this morning Premiere wouldn’t run for more than a minute without crashing with these filters removed.

AE seems to work fine, using blackmagic playback.

I haven’t tested the project with blackmagic playback turned off – I’ll give this a go and let you know the results.

I’ve been receiving the same error message

Ok – update, I was using driver 9.5 – now have upgraded to 9.5.1, it’s a little hard to tell, but it seems that the project file that I was having the problems with continues to be a problem – will let me work for a little while, then crash. I’ve started a fresh project and imported a range of footage, including some from my problem project, and so far so good. I get playback fine on external monitor, and haven’t yet crashed.

Have you tried a new project? or are you continuing to experience problems with the same one? I kept having problems even when using copies of project. I also started a new project and pulled in old sequence, and the problems began again.

Turning blackmagic playback off – still gave me problems in my “problem” project.

My new project seems to be working for now with blackmagic playback both on and off.

Hope this helps – I’d be keen to hear of your progress.

Myles Conti
Director Conti Bros Films
http://www.contibrosfilms.com

[Myles Conti]

Hi,

I too have been experiencing similar problems, and am working with a Blackmagic card. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot – last night I thought it had something to do with Red Giant colour look plugin, as things improved after I removed these filters, but then this morning Premiere wouldn’t run for more than a minute without crashing with these filters removed.

AE seems to work fine, using blackmagic playback.

I haven’t tested the project with blackmagic playback turned off – I’ll give this a go and let you know the results.

I’ve been receiving the same error message

Ok – update, I was using driver 9.5 – now have upgraded to 9.5.1, it’s a little hard to tell, but it seems that the project file that I was having the problems with continues to be a problem – will let me work for a little while, then crash. I’ve started a fresh project and imported a range of footage, including some from my problem project, and so far so good. I get playback fine on external monitor, and haven’t yet crashed.

Have you tried a new project? or are you continuing to experience problems with the same one? I kept having problems even when using copies of project. I also started a new project and pulled in old sequence, and the problems began again.

Turning blackmagic playback off – still gave me problems in my “perhaps corrupted” project.

Ok – ANOTHER UPDATE – As soon as I finished typing above, I jumped into Premiere, turned off blackmagic output, and now project has locked up. 🙁

Myles Conti
Director Conti Bros Films
http://www.contibrosfilms.com

[Myles Conti]

Hi,
After a couple of troublesome weeks – I’ve realised my problems stem from a dodgy NVIDIA GTX 285 card that I installed, and not the deckling drivers. If anyone is reading this, be very careful if purchasing a GTX 285 for mac, as there are reports of a number of people tricking up cheap PC cards, so as they appear to be a GTX 285 for Mac.

Now, I’m in the process of trying to get my money back 🙁

Myles Conti
Director Conti Bros Films
http://www.contibrosfilms.com

[David Willey]

Did you ever figure out your issue? I have the same issue with a MacPro, Decklink SDI card and a Quadro 4000 video card. Lion just seems doggy and every time a click from source to the timeline a get a loud buzz. Kind of annoying while editing 🙂 I also have the GenArts Sapphire plug-ine set.
Thanks fellow bovine friends,
David

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