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BlackMagic Decklink hates our D5 machines, or is it Final Cut?
I have an ongoing Hate-Hate relationship between my FCP system and our D5 decks…
Here’s the Tech Specs:
Mac Pro 8-core 5GB RAM
X-Serve Raid
FCP 6.0.1
Blackmagic Decklink Card (with newest drivers and firmware)
Panasonic D5 decksBack when I had the G5 running as my main machine with a Decklink card in it, it was always a little twitchy when working with D5. While using Edit to Tape it would give me a general error message about 75% of the time while either doing Assemble or Insert edits. I would have to change my device control setting them change it back to what it should be then try to make my edit and then it would work.
Recently I got a new 8-core and a new Decklink card for it and it just hasn’t really worked with the D5 at all. It works fine with every other deck we have (DigiBeta, HDCAM, SRW, DVCPRO HD, etc.) but it hates the D5. It does the same twitchy general error thing our G5 did, but now when it looks like it’s going to work it just starts the deck rolling and doesn’t write anything to tape. When I hit ESC to stop the edit all of a sudden the last few frames will get written to tape then stop.
Weird right? So I’m wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, or do I have a bad card? I’m guessing not since it was doing similar things with the G5 card. Maybe BlackMagic just sucks, but it works fine with everything else we have so I’m not inclined to guy buy a new card.
I know a lot of people are going to hate this… but for now I’ve been bringing quicktimes into my Avid and outputting them to D5 from there, so I at least have a BS work-around.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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What does BlackMagic say about this? Have you also posted this in the Decklink forum?
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Yea I’m waiting to hear back from Blackmagic. It’s also on the Blackmagic forum, but I figured more people look at the FCP forum on a regular basis. I’m assuming AJA users don’t have any problems like this? Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance everyone.
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Did you change you deck control configuration to Panasonic instead of Sony?
Before I ditched BM for Kona, we laid off to D5 fairly often and it was solid. 1080/23.98 or 720/60?
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I’m convinced that Kona has superior customer service and the next big buy for I/O will be Kona, but I have to say that you should be able to edit to D5 with the black magic without issue.
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My device control is set to panasonic rs-422. Outputing 1080 23.98 10-bit. When I use fcp to control the deck ie rewind play etc it works fine.
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Are you locked to reference or input video? Do you have the BM preferences “output stable black…bla bla” turned on?
I would typically have the D5 lock to input video straight from the BM card. it seemed happiest then.
(and yes borjis, AJA totally blew past them in so many regards)
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I’m locked to reference. I’ll try and lock it to the BM card tomorrow and see if that helps.
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Also dig around on BM’s website. I remember some troubleshooting note about D5’s specifically… but I think that was just the “Panasonic 422” suggestion I already made.
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I was wrong earlier, my decks have always been on auto for reference, so reference was always being taken from input video. Also just some more info:
The card is the BlackMagic Decklink HD Pro PCI express model
My Deck firmware is (i think this is the firmware info):
Software Version
Front: FP-0.12.A
AV: M1-0.20.K
SysCon: M1-0.12.J
Servo: M1-0.22.- -
hm…. well crap, I’m outta ideas. That’s part of the reason we went (cough, cough) to AJA. hopefully the BM forum can get you rockin.
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