Intentisty Pro settings not remaining set

[Jim Sustacek]

Same thing happens for me — must be a Blackmagic bug?

There seems to be a workaround:

1) Open /Library/Preferences/com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel.plist

(I used the Property List Editor app that comes with or within Xcode, you could also use PlistBuddy in one nice terminal command)

2) Change the value for key “AnalogVideoOutput” from “Component” to “Composite” and save the file. (If you have multiple Blackmagic devices, you will find multiple “AnalogVideoOutput” keys in the plist tree.)

3) Re-open System Preferences and you should see the change. The change seems to hold so well, it seems like the only way to change it back is to edit the plist file again!

[Jim Sustacek]

Okay, here’s a PlistBuddy terminal command that should do the trick (this will affect all Blackmagic devices for a particular system):

for dict in `/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print :' /Library/Preferences/com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel.plist | awk '{ print $1 }' | grep com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel`; do sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set $dict:AnalogVideoOutput Composite" /Library/Preferences/com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel.plist; done

It uses sudo so it will probably prompt for a password when you run it.

And to change it back, just switch Composite to Component in the command:

for dict in `/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print :' /Library/Preferences/com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel.plist | awk '{ print $1 }' | grep com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel`; do sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set $dict:AnalogVideoOutput Component" /Library/Preferences/com.blackmagic-design.desktopvideo.prefspanel.plist; done

Note: I haven’t tested this beyond verifying the correct option was selected in the Blackmagic preference pane.

[Rob Grauert]

Thanks, buddy. I will give it a shot when I get home 🙂

Rob Grauert, Jr.
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