CS 6 playback issues

[John Frey]

No playback problems from our PC’s.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Jim Wiseman]

No problems on my Mac Pro 5.1 with playback and basic edits/titles. Nikon H264 mov, ProRes HQ HD, other codecs. NVidia GTX 285. Both 10.6.8 and 10.7.4 boot drives on same Mac Pro. Mercury enabled.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Jim Wiseman]

Does Blackmagic have the Adobe drivers ready? That would account for no external playback. Does video playback on the computer monitor? The AJA drivers are not out yet for Adobe CS6. Listed as “Coming Soon” for Kona LHi and 3G. The playback I am speaking of is on the computer monitor only. External playback yet to be tested, but AJA has great support and I am confident when they release it that it will work.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Gerry Curtis]

Did you update to the latest version of Desktop Video from BM?

-Gerry

http://www.digitalkilnstudios.com
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[Chris Tompkins]

You have to install the Newest BMD driver for APP After you install CS6.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Chris Cea]

I appreciate all of the replays guys. My situation has changed a bit though. I went ahead and did a clean install of the OS. I am now running 10.7.4 and I’m now experiencing a different issue with the external montioring. Before (with 10.6.8) I couldn’t even get motion video playback on the external monitor. A still frame was displayed when playing down sequences. Now (with 10.7.4) I get motion video playback on the external montior but the video is crushed which reveals black pillar box bars on the left and right of the screen. Within these pillar box bars I am seeing glitchy video throughout playback.

I was under the impression that the latest Blackmagic driver would allow the HD Extreme 3D card I have function properly with CS6. I now believe I was wrong.

What’s even more bizarre is that 1080 sequences run fine on the external monitor, SD sequences have this crushed/glitchy video look during external monitoring (which I mentioned above) and 720 sequences don’t show up on the external monitor at all. Not sue what is going on here? I guess the good news is that CS 5.5 ( which is still on my machine) is still operating normally. Any ideas guys what is happening here?

Thanks again for your help guys
Chris

[Gerry Curtis]

You’ve re-installed BM desktop video and have BM showing up and checked in playback under preferences?

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[Chris Cea]

HI Gerry, Thanks for trying to help.

To answer your question… Yes, under the playback tab within the Preferences I have “Blackmagic Playback” checked off. It doesn’t appear that Premiere is struggling to see the card, it’s definitely there. The program just doesn’t want to play (through the external monitor) SD sequences properly or 720 sequences at all 🙂

Again, thanks for taking the time out to chime in

Chris

[Chris Borjis]

Chris,

CS6 requires O/S 10.6.8 and quicktime 7.6 minimum.

are you running those versions?

I have a black magic multibridge and it runs cs 6 monitoring perfectly.

[Chris Cea]

Hi Chris,

I am running Lion 10.7.4 and Quicktime 10.1 at the moment. Just yesterday I did a clean upgrade to Lion from Snow Lep. Interestingly enough the move to Lion has given me motion playback on my external monitor (which I wasn’t getting with snow lep) but now I am getting glitchy video to the left and right of the SD image during playback. In addition, the frame is compressed in size which frees up the space (on the left and right) for this glitchy video to show. From my experiments… this issue is only present in SD sequences since 1080 sequences play back fine. For some reason though… 720 sequences don’t play back at all on the external. I was hoping possibly a driver update in the future might fix this but my concern is I don’t see others on here with this same problem.

Thanks for chiming in Chris.

Chris