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HELP! Blackmagic/QT/FCP software issues?
I am desperately looking for help on an issue that has left us dead in the water, editing-wise. We recently bought and installed a 3.5 TB Apple XRaid, and it works great. In the process of installing that, we updated Quicktime to 7.1.3, FCP to 5.1 and the Blackmagic software to 5.2. I am operating on a Dual 2.3 GHz Power PC G5 with 6.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM. The issue is this: when trying to digitize footage through a router from a beta deck, the Blackmagic card no longer recognizes the NTSC 10-bit setting for ingesting video. It will ingest the audio, but the monitor shows a “No Video Input” message. The only video setting that will allow me to ingest any SD video is the “Blackmagic NTSC 23.98Hz 10 bit” or “8 bit” presets. I am working in SD in Final Cut and I know that the solution is probably very simple, but I can’t seem to grasp the big picture. Is it simply a combination of wrong settings? Or is there some sort of software conflict with the recent upgrades? Everything was working fine prior to the upgrades, if that is any help.
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9 Replies
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Try bypassing the router and see what happens.
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It is not a router issue. We tried that as well as routing the deck to a number of other sources and that works fine.
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Are you sure you have SDI capture on? Don’t you have to select that in the BM preference panel?
When you capture 23.98 is that motion normal or does it capture slow motion?
What did the Blackmagic forum say?
Does any other setting such as 8 bit uncompressed or dv50 work?
Jeremy
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I have posted to the Blackmagic forum and am awaiting an answer. The only setting that allows us to ingest video is NTSC 23.98 Hz 10 bit or 8 bit, but the video has to be rendered in Final Cut and it looks choppy.
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Man, that is really weird.
What exact version of FCP are you on, you say fcp 5.1, but the latest version is 5.1.4. I would update to the most current everything (FCP & BM drivers) and see what happens.
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Roger,
Have you tried capturing 8-bit? If not, give it a try and see if it works.
Also, since you have only seven posts here and have supplied no info in your profile, no one here has any idea of your experience level. Why not tell us if you’re a longtime FCP user or not, because we cannot tell if your problem is hardware related, software realted, or possibly related to unfamiliarity with FCP.
DRW
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I am fairly new to FCP, but not new to non-linear editing, having spent a great deal of time with the Media100 before its demise a few years ago. I have never had any formal training in computers, coming from the linear editing world of television production straight into the Media100 where I was forced out of necessity to learn how to edit before I knew anything about the machine.
I described the system that I am working on in my first post. Taking into account that I am not an expert on the inner workings of computers, take this with a grain of salt, I feel that there is a software conflict somewhere. The problems began after updating the OS, Quicktime, FCP and Blackmagic software.
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Uninstall then reinstall the Blackmagic drivers.
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Roger,
I always want to know this kind of information because most who are fresh converts to FCP always bypass Easy Setup and often wind up with one or more very minor setup issues that can throw everything out of whack.
Its seems so very basic as to sound insulting, but you’d be surprised how many lifelong editors bypass what is the simplist way for insuring success with FCP.
DRW
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