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Dropped Frames on Mountain Lion
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Adam,
After re-installing did you find you had to reinstall or reactivate any licenses on that machine? Did network settings for instance have to be manually setup? I have a number of node locked licenses that use OS generated system keys (Foundry, metaSAN) I am concerned about screwing up in this process.
Also after re-installing. are you sending audio out over the Decklink card with picture (audio follows video) and not getting dropped frames? How about with Pro-Res footage and timelines? I had found that Uncompressed 10-bit didn’t drop frames so much but ProRes did like crazy.
Thanks,
bk
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Brandon,
The re-install didn’t affect any licensing or the structure of my system drive. Everything remained the same, untouched.
I’ve just checked the Foundry plugin I have for After Effects. It’s working fine (node locked).
Pro Res 4444 is working as it was prior to upgrade. No dropped frames at all with audio and video running via my Decklink card.
Basically it appears that the re-intall works in the same way as the upgrade of the OS, as it doesn’t mess with your previous disk image other than updating OS components.
Why has this worked? I’m not entirely sure. Perhaps something wasn’t installed properly during the upgrade process compared with what occurred with the re-install.
Good luck.
Adam
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Tried the Mountain Lion Re-install. No luck. Still dropping frames in FCP7 on single layer ProRES playback (no RT effects). System seems the same so might be worth other people trying since it worked for someone. Premiere isn’t see CUDA anymore so need to figure that out. To clarify I’m using the Ultrastudio Mini Monitor, not a decklink card.
Jesse
UPDATE: Had to reinstall CUDA drivers after mountain lion reinstall. System Preferences had CUDA there but Adobe wasn’t seeing it.
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I downgraded Blackmagic drivers to 9.6.8 and the dropped frames seem to have stopped. This is on 10.8.2 with the ultrastuido mini monitor. I did used the uninstaller before I downgraded.
Jesse
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Was this ever resolved? I switched from Kona to Decklink and mountain lion and am dropping frames like crazy. Turning off audio helps but is not an option when laying off to tape. There has to be a fix for this.
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No luck on my end. Still dealing with it. Have emailed with blackmagic about it, but they blame mountain lion. I mentioned if its mountain lion how come Aja doesn’t have the same issues. They said they will continue to look into it but haven’t heard anything since. Everytime they update the driver I cross my fingers
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That’s discouraging. How do I layback with clients in my bay if Im dropping frames all the time?
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Still no solution for this?
My rMPB was just upgraded to Mountain Lion during a service issue and now I can’t even edit properly on FCP7 because of these dropped frames. Clearly it’s a Black Magic Audio issue because playback is suddenly fine when switching to Built-In Output, which of course does me no good.
Running FCP7 on mid-2012 rMPB with Thunderbolt Black Magic Shuttle.
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Blackmagic support confirmed it is a known issue and they have no intention of fixing it blaming Apple (despite the BM site claiming to work with FCP and Mountain Lion).
I switched to Lion and it works flawlessly. That said it isn’t simple to downgrade, I just installed a new startup disk and made a Lion system on it from scratch. Not a single dropped frame since.
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Hmmm unfortunately downgrading my OS isn’t a feasible process considering Lion came installed on my system and I don’t have the discs. Why did Apple upgrade me to Mountain Lion without asking?
Guess that T-Tap is looking mighty nice right now…
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