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Decklink Card and FCP hate my D5 deck…
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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2 Replies
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Hi Matt,
We have a D5 as well and don’t see this happening. Could you please let us know:
Which specific Decklink card you have?
What firmware is your D5 on?
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
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.-Thanks for your help.
-Matt
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