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Trouble playing BM 10bit clips on non-BM system
I received some 10-bit uncompressed PAL clips from a production house, most play fine, but some clips give a white screen and a QuickTime error. QuickTime reports the codec as “Blackmagic 10 Bit (DV10)”. On this forum I read something that Blackmagic clips should open with QuickTime and the standard uncompressed codecs. Is this the case? Might there be something wrong with my standard codecs? (I have FCP5.0.3 installed on the system).
Or should I install the Blackmagic driver? And, if this is the case is it possible to install only the QuickTime component?Thanks in advance for your help!
Greetings,
Igor -
2 Replies
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Hoi Igor,
The files you are talking about are encoded in a ‘special’ codec, still part of our driver software.
DV10 means something like ‘Digital Voodoo 10 bit compliant codec’, and we only added it to give end users the opportunity to play out old ‘legacy’ Digital Voodoo files.Details about how to play out Digital Voodoo files and Cinewave files with our DeckLink cards can be found in Support Note number 33 on our web site:
https://www.decklink.com/support/detail.asp?techID=33
You can either install our driver software and have the codec available for QuickTime, or, better still, ask the production house to not use this legacy codec and go for the Apple codec all the time.
Hope this explains,
Theo Stals
Blackmagic Design Europe -
Thanks for your quick reply Theo!
This was exactly what went wrong!
I was confused because I (mistakenly) thought all Blackmagic files were equal…
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