Confused About Driver Settings

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Confused About Driver Settings

Posted by Rick Macadamia on October 9, 2006 at 9:24 pm

I’m trying to solve a problem with crawling text in After Effect. Someone suggested that I check the settings on my Blackmagic Driver, specifically a “single field out on pause” checkbox. I have no experience with settings on the BM driver. Don’t know where to find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Working with a dual Mac G5, OS 10.3.9, a Decklink SP card and version 4.4 of the BM installer. Thanks

Luke Maslen replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Kristian Lam
October 9, 2006 at 11:53 pm

Hi,

This feature is not available in the 4.4 drivers. You’ll need to upgrade your drivers. Since you’re in 10.3.9, use the v4.8.1r2 drivers.
Rick Macadamia
October 10, 2006 at 2:53 am

Thank you, I’ll go to the Blackmagic site and seek it out. Do you know if there are any known issues pertaining to that driver and AE 7?
Luke Maslen
October 10, 2006 at 6:20 am

Hi Rick,

Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not officially supported by the DeckLink drivers and we generally suggest that DeckLink users either use Mac OS X 10.3.8 with the DeckLink 4.8.1 drivers or else upgrade to Tiger and run the latest DeckLink 5.x drivers. This is documented in the support note DeckLink Minimum System Requirements for Mac OS X.

After Effects 7.0 is new whereas Mac OS X 10.3.9 is now comparitively old and I think the DeckLink 4.8.1 drivers preceded After Effects 7.0.

If you are not using Final Cut Pro, then you are probably better off running the latest DeckLink 5.x drivers with After Effects 7.0. If you are using Final Cut Pro 5.x, then I would recommend you upgrade to Tiger for maximum compatibility. If you are using Final Cut Pro HD 4.5, then you will need to use the DeckLink 4.8.1 drivers with Panther.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
Rick Macadamia
October 10, 2006 at 1:47 pm

Luke thanks for the shout back. I’m a bit nervous about sweeping upgrades right in the middle of a project. I’ll start with the v4.8.1 driver and see if that won’t get me through this current edit. Then I guess it will be time for me to make an OS change and an update from FCP 4.5. I’m starting to realize that along with death and taxes we might as well add software upgrades, they seem certain. Thanks again.
Luke Maslen
October 11, 2006 at 1:55 am

Hi Rick,

You are wise to avoid major upgrades in the middle of a job. When it is safe to do so, I would recommend you update to the latest versions of Mac OS X, QuickTime, Final Cut Pro and DeckLink drivers.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

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