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    DeckLink/MultiBridge

    Posted by Rodrigo Silvestri on April 16, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Hi. I’m starting to build my Resolve suite and between the components in the “to buy” list, I added a DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card.
    Now I’m at the studio where I work at, using a MacPro with a MultiBridge box. I ran Resolve in this computer and I was surprised to see that Resolve recognizes the MultiBridge box and it works.

    In my setup at home I will be using a computer display + HDLink + DeckLink. I do not need 3D monitoring nor 2K. Is there any reason to get a DeckLink HD Extreme 3D instead of a cheaper DeckLink SDI / Studio? ( https://bit.ly/dsFvXP – https://bit.ly/gt2EYE ).

    Thanks,
    Rodrigo.

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    Luke Maslen replied 15 years ago 4 Members · 10 Replies
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  • Paul Provost

    April 16, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    I get the feeling that when ver 8 comes out any graphics card and any decklink card will work

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  • Robert Houllahan

    April 16, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    The base Decklink HD card works fine with Resolve.

    -Rob-

    Robert Houllahan
    Director / Colorist
    Cinelab Inc.
    http://www.cinelab.com

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  • Rodrigo Silvestri

    April 16, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    Good. Do you know if the “Decklink HD” is any of the links I posted? Or is it a discontinued model? Or what?

    Thanks,
    Rodrigo.

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    Some people seem to love getting angry. I don’t 🙂

  • Robert Houllahan

    April 17, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    https://blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/models/

    The $295 Decklink SDI works fine…

    -Rob-

    Robert Houllahan
    Director / Colorist
    Cinelab Inc.
    http://www.cinelab.com

    MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

  • Luke Maslen

    April 18, 2011 at 1:11 am

    Hi Rodrigo,

    The list of capture cards in the DaVinci Resolve Configuration Guide for Mac are supported by the drivers that are installed by the Resolve software installer. These drivers are slightly different from the Desktop Video drivers (previously known as DeckLink drivers) which can be downloaded from our website. The Resolve drivers for DeckLink contain some different firmware to support some functions in Resolve which the regular Desktop Video drivers do not currently support.

    For this reason, if you are using Resolve for mission-critical work, then it would be wise to choose one of the supported capture cards. However other cards might work most of the time but are not supported and we won’t easily be able to help if anything goes wrong.

    If you do choose to use an unsupported card, please be aware that any upgrade to the Resolve software could potentially lead to that card not working with Resolve as we don’t test with unsupported cards so we won’t be aware if they are working or not. If you are happy to live with that, you may find that your Multibridge is OK for SD and HD video with Resolve but 2K might not work properly.

    Regards,

    Luke Maslen
    Blackmagic Design

  • Rodrigo Silvestri

    April 18, 2011 at 3:26 am

    Great. Thanks.

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  • Rodrigo Silvestri

    April 18, 2011 at 3:42 am

    Hi Luke.
    Thanks for the answer.
    I am not interested in using the Multibridge for monitoring, that was just a test I did because they have one at work. I am not interested in using a 2K output.

    You clearly state that the MultiBridge might not be the best option because it doesn’t have support and might not work with future Resolve versions.

    Do you mean the same for the DeckLink SDI card?

    Thanks,
    Rodrigo.

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    Some people seem to love getting angry. I don’t 🙂

  • Luke Maslen

    April 18, 2011 at 5:08 am

    Hi Rodrigo,

    Currently the list of supported cards in Resolve for Mac are:
    • DeckLink HD Extreme 3
    • DeckLink HD Extreme 3D
    • DeckLink HD Extreme 3D+

    The DeckLink 4K and UltraStudio 3D will be added to this list once they start shipping. I’m not aware of any plans to retrospectively add support for other DeckLink cards so the DeckLink SDI won’t be officially supported for the foreseeable future but it’s possible it will work OK.

    You can find the full configuration guide here.

    Regards,

    Luke Maslen
    Blackmagic Design

  • Rodrigo Silvestri

    April 18, 2011 at 6:17 am

    Great news.
    I’ll get the DeckLink SDI for a start, and later move to a better setup.

    Thank you for being so open with this information.
    Rodrigo Silvestri.

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  • Luke Maslen

    April 18, 2011 at 6:57 am

    Hi Rodrigo,

    You’re most welcome please just use the DeckLink drivers installed by the Resolve installer and avoid installing separate drivers for your DeckLink card. This should give you the best results.

    Regards,

    Luke Maslen
    Blackmagic Design

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