Green Line in DV sequences

[Amund Lie]

Not in Cinewave!
But hey, this card is unsupported so what do you expect? 😉

Amund

[Rob Alexander]

Hi Amund,

are you running 4.5 or 5.0?
I’ve got a cinewave too which is running beautifully with Tiger and 4.5 (should I have said that???). Haven’t been brave enough to try 5.0 yet though.

I remember last year that CW had the green line problem with DV timelines until 4.5 came out.

Cheers,
Rob

[Amund Lie]

Hello Rob,

No, there’s no green line with Cinewave, and I’m running FCP5. As a matter of fact I only got it up and running today, having given up and taken a holiday (!) when I found out I had no video out on either card (which later out to be the Automatic Duck problem). As far as I can see everything runs like it used to do with 4.5, alas the green line is now on the Decklink card (which I have now removed the drivers from).

One thing though: None of the DV50 sequences on the tv-series I’ve been working will play back properly from the old sequences created in 4.5. I have to create new sequences in FCP5 and they then play fine in realtime. A matter of cut and paste and a bit of rendering on non-real time stuff (3rd-party filters), and everything seems fine. So that’s about it for now. I’ll start working properly again on Wednesday, and I’ll give you an update if there are other issues.

Amund

[Rob Alexander]

Great to hear the good news about 5.0 – I look forward to hearing more. Did you keep a copy of 4.5 running? I read somewhere that renaming the app means that the 5.0 installer doesn’t delete the old version. Which version of Tiger are you running?

[Kristian Lam]

Hi,

This problem has been resolved with Final Cut Pro 5.02

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Olivier Jean]

HI all

i can confirm what the green line has gone
with the FCP 5.2 Upgrade.

Regards
Olivier Jean
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia

[Amund Lie]

Rob,

I am happy to say that Cinewave works better than ever before! Ironic isn’t it?

I have no problems with DV50 sequences playback, or DV25/50 material in a Cinewave sequence. The update is fast and smooth, and dynamic realtime in the DV sequences also works well. Today I upgraded to 10.4.2 and FCP 5.02, no problems there either.

I am reluctant to try out the Decklink now that Cinewave works so well. One of the problems I have with my G5 is that the motherboard is noisy and leaks to the internal speaker, but also to the Decklink card on SP/DIF so the audio isn’t clean.

I guess we can move this thread over to the Cinewave forum now, I guess they all need some good news over there.

Amund