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Possible to somehow test DL Extreme Card while installed??
G5 DP 2.5, 2gigs RAM, OSX4.5, FCP 5.0.4. DL Extreme ver 5.5, (in top PCI slot) Dual desk top monitors
Trying to figure out some strange behavior with my card, I’m guessing. I loop component out from DL thru my Sony PVM14M2U then to PVW 2800. Seperate BBurst Gen to lock card/system & deck. Set accordingly in BM control pannel. I’ve tested every cable, connection and hook up thoroughly, and all seems well. Even swapped out the BB gen with another, seems to make no difference.
Here’s the issue: my NTSC monitor will randomly ‘blink’ or ‘blip’ sometimes when FCP is running, sometimes when just the desktop b.g. is up on the monitor with FCP not running. Some times with an image up on screen in FCP, it’ll just breifly look as if it’s lost sync, and will roll a little then lock back up.
At times, (not always, just with increasing frequency) it’ll do this about every 10- 20 sec’s, sometimes 1 per min. or so. Sometimes a restart stops it for a while. Feels like card to me. I know, I know…delete prefs, new user, new project, but doesn’t feel like that’s it. So wondering if there’s something like Hardware Test Disc for checking my card.
Here’s couple of other anomolies that are probably un related: I’ve got boot drive partitioned in 2: 1-for edit/FCP, and 1-for everything else. I usually leave powered up overnight booted in the ‘everything else’ partition.
Most mornings when I wake mosheen up, the right monitor rez has been changed from 1280 x 1040 to 800 x 600. Restart puts back to normal. Been checking console log trying to resolve. Only thing keeps this from happening is if leave overnight with ‘Classic’ running.
Other thing: had show that was started in FCP 4.5 on old G4 DP, then migrated to new G5 FC Suite. No matter what I do, there’s green …uh…lines or almost like a high lite glow, around some of the grafix, & keys. Changing settings in Motion tab or filter settings will eleminate, (this shows up in both canvas & NTSC monitors) but soon as it renders it’s back.
All I’ve got to go on. Thanks for any thoughts.
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Suggestion 1 – Forget the BB generator. If it works, it’s great, if it doesn’t, don’t worry about it. Use the DL as a master. If you need your SP to Sync, use the Y cable as a “ref” signal. (You can loop it thru to the Y-in where it belongs.)
– there is no software based hardware test of your card. A simple setup is!Suggestion 2 – Disable “Video Desktop”
It will have the OS take control of the card when your not using FCP. It may be an amazing and interesting feature, but I’ve had my HD card switch from SD PAL (in FCP) to HD NTSC when in the Finder to look for some files. Yes, UNIX is about schizophrenia. Of course you van correct these setting, and of course OS X does a poor job trying to remember these settings. (You probably have VGA monitors or other non-Apple Displays connected to your machine, as X changes resolution at times)Suggestion 3 – Disable System Audio to use the DL card.
OS X is not a Macintosh OS. It’s UNIX and can’t “talk” to hardware. Check your settings and don’t try anything wild.
-Imagine, you tell the system to play out system sounds over the DL card. Your system is set at 16-bits at 44.1 kHz. But you are also running FCP, that uses the card for 48kHz audio at 24-bits. See what I mean? There is an issue of conflicting interests here, and what is your DL card supposed to do? Sync is always about simple things and being very straightforward.
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