CS5.5 not outputting to External monitor.

[Brittany Delillo]

Did anyone figure this out? I’m having the same issues. Using a Blackmagic Decklink Studio 2 card with an 8.0.0 or higher driver. Tried it with uncompressed formats but still can’t seem to get a monitor output.

[Alfred Guzzetti]

I never got it to work. Blackmagic support suggested that the problem was that the sequence settings didn’t match the format of the clips. I thought the formats did match but Blackmagic’s advice came too late for me to try again. I was using the trial version of PP and it had already expired. I didn’t go ahead and buy PP precisely because I couldn’t get the video monitor to work through the Intensity card. A previous message from Blackmagic support suggested that there might be a feature missing in the trial version. But I doubted this.

Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1

[Brittany Delillo]

Alright. I guess I’ll keep trying it out and email Blackmagic if need be.

I’m trying so hard to give Premiere a chance but it’s one thing after another… Thanks for the quick response.

[Tom Daigon]

I wouldnt condemn PrP for what really are BM issues. My AJA Kona 3 works just fine sending images to my external monitor when I use AJA sequences. 😀

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Alfred Guzzetti]

Both Adobe and BM say that the Intensity card should work with PP 5.5.

Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1

[Tom Daigon]

But BM is responsible for making the hardware and software drivers work! Not Adobe.

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Alfred Guzzetti]

Just to be clear, the problem I couldn’t solve was that clips in the viewer played back through the Intensity card on the video monitor but when the clips were put into a sequence, they wouldn’t play properly on the video monitor. Either they showed as a frozen frame or they moved in a stuttering way with lots of dropped frames.

Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1