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  Decklink capture card – my recent Kernel Panic experience

  Posted by John Steventon on February 16, 2007 at 4:35 pm

  Hi folks,

  I’m posting this in here for future people who may have the same problem I’ve just had – and hopefully they’ll not spend the three weeks or so that I’ve lost 10-bit capture for (you may remember a post asking about this, which no one could help with).

  Background – my Mac was suffering from Kernel panics when starting up. It turned out that it was the driver for the Decklink card I use. (5.7)

  I upgraded the driver – but then I lost 10 bit capture as a result. Which was annoying. If I reverted back to 5.7 – I’d regain support, but the system would be very buggy starting up. I spoke to the reseller, and support at BM, and no help.

  Then, it was suggested that I re-install FCP clean – maybe there was something amiss. So, I did. But before uninstalling, I copied out my Plugins folder, so I wouldn’t need to reinstall all my plugins.

  I re-installed FCP – with the current 5.9 driver for the decklink card – and wahey – it all works!

  I then closed down FCP, and dragged in the old plugins folder and booted up FCP again. Oddly – I’d now re-lost 10 bit capture!

  So – I went through the whole process again, but this time, I took a look at what was in the reinstalled, fresh plugins folder. What I saw was in the fresh folder, one ‘Blackmagic Enabler’ file – but in my archived one, several (one for SD one for HD and so on).

  So – I put everything into the plugins folder, apart from the old enabler files – and I now have 10-bit support.

  Yes, this was a long winded way of telling you folks this – but I wanted to share my full experience – to help others, and so if this ever happens again, I can find this post, and work out what went wrong!

  Have a great weekend.

  John

  John Steventon – Author of DJing for Dummies

  Success is merely a failiure to imagine more…

  G5 2.7Ghz, 4.5Gb ram, Blackmagic Decklink/multibridge, 5.6Tb Infortrend storage, FCP Studio 5.04, Makie MCU control, Yahama 5.1 surround, JVC DTV multi-format monitor, 2x23inch Apple monitors – and a partirdge on a pear tree.

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