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    Installing Resolve 8 over 7

    Posted by David Smith on July 16, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    I guess this is in the manual somewhere but I must be missing it.

    I’m a first time Resolve buyer. I installed the disk only to find it was resolve 7.

    I uninstalled 7.

    I downloaded and installed 8.

    Now Final Cut Pro does not see my Decklink on start up (“unable to locate the following external devicies….”.

    And I can not capture with Media Express for the Decklink. It no longer is seeing a picture from my Camera.

    I need to start over.

    1) Do I need to install Resolve 7 THEN update to Resolve 8? Or Do I just install the Resolve 8 download only?

    2) Does it sound like I need to reinstall the Decklink drivers? If so I need to do that before installing Resolve?

    I shouldn’t have started this on the weekend!

    Thanks for any help!

    David Smith replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Joseph Mastantuono

    July 17, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Have you tried running FCP without resolve running? Resolve locks down the io card.

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  • David Smith

    July 17, 2011 at 2:16 am

    I just tried it. Same message. “unable to locate the following external devices”

    I think Resolve 8 must be and update to 7. So 7 must be installed first.

    Each time I install 7 or 8 there is a firmware update too, which I think has messed something up.

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