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Blackmagic card dissapear
I use a G5 with a decklink hd card which was working fine for the FCP but after I installed a manager software that came with the Maxtor one touch ext harddisk the card seems to dissapear….there is that same icon in the sys pref but it is not active and FCP saids it can’t find the Blackmagic NTSC 8 bit which is what I use for my playout setting. I am in a middle of a long project and need a low risk solution. Thank you.
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4 Replies
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Well I would run the uninstaller for that maxtor software for sure first thing.. Sorry if that seems obvious.. but I thought I’d mention it.
j.
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yes I have done that …but doesn’t seem to be working. I was thinking of reinstalling the driver, but not quite sure if it will effect the whole setup, because we are finishing off on the cut. The card is the Decklink HD Pro, and the driver is version 5.2, I have another system that uses the new Decklink HD extreme, would the driver for this be compatable? Do I need to get it working or should I finish my cut since the FCP is working fine and I can still edit on it. Thanks so lot.
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Why don’t you use FCP Rescue to store FCP’s settings. That way if anything goes wrong, you can just RESTORE the settings.
FCP Rescue is a free utility, Google it, should be easy to find.
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Re installing the drivers would be the next thing I’d try. I can’t see how that could cause any further harm. I think I’d reinstall FCP next after that (I think you’ll have to reinstall the drivers again after you do that).
Deleting the prefs with FCP rescue as TCW mentions is easy to try, harmless and maybe worth it but I don’t believe that problems relating to not recognizing the card are to be cured that way.. you never know.
One thing to try if you get desperate is to reinstall everything from scratch on a new drive; buy a new Sata drive, put it in a bay (assuming you have a free one in the G5) and start from scratch; install os x, fcp, and the Blackmagic drivers and see what happens. Working with the new drive you can keep your old drive in the machine and intact in case you decide to go back to it. It’s good to freshen things up now and then, though maybe a long process if you have a lot of other software to install to get up to speed.
Good luck.
jason
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