Vegas 8 and Decklink / Multibridge

[Ian Mcguffie]

Also are running VP8a on XPx64.
Have a Decklink card and have been using it with V7 successfully.
Installed BMD6.6_x64 but VP8a wont see the card – only sees ‘AJA/win-sec-disp/ieee’)

Can’t work out what file should be where for VP8 to recognize the card.
We are stuck between a rock and a hard place currently as I don’t know whether to turn to SCS or BMD(!)

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

BMD now has beta drivers on their site
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/

Please report any problems or lack of them to Sony. BMD is responsible for any issues, but Sony is also interested in helping BMD fix the problem, according to information on the Sony site.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Matt Wright]

Hey DSE

Just checking are you saying that there are new drivers as of 29th Oct, or are you talking about 6.6 drivers from 26th Oct, as it is the 6.6 drivers from 26th Oct, that are basically not working for us XP64 users.

Let me know, if you know something I dont regarding new drivers.

Many Thanks for your response

Matt

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

No new drivers AFAIK. I’m not running a 64 box, but as far as I know, they’re currently not supporting 64.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Matt Wright]

Hi There.

I have just downloaded and tried BlackMagic Drivers versions 64 bit 6.6.1, in XP64, and just as I suspected it did not work, with the same probklem as before, the device just does not show up in Vegas.

BUT.

After looking around I noticed that in the Vegas8 directory, in the “Video Hardware Drivers” directory, that there was no refernce to Decklink at all.

I compared this to a system that worked, running XP32 and the 32bit drivers and there was a file there called “DeckLink Vegas.dll”

So just a complete lucky try, I copied this file onto the 64bit system, and hey Presto, it only worked, I can now get the option to select the Multibridge as a preview device and, to my complete surprise I even get an output which seems to work. Although not 100%, but it works.

So my conclusion is that the 64bit drivers supplied by Decklink just do not install correctly, or they do not put this dll into the correct place.

I will have a really good look at this Monday, but at least we may be able to get an output from the Decklink now in 64bit systems.

Quoka if you PM me, I can send you the dll which sort of worked, basically the thing which didn’t work was if I selected an HDV 1440×1080 50i Project in Vegas it would only preview in SD mode, but if I selected a 1920×1080 50i project it would output perfectly in HD.

This is fantastic, at least I feel I am getting somewhere, I brought this MultiBridge Box over a year ago, and have been fighting ever since with Vegas to get it to work.

What I can’t understand is that I have been in communication with BlackMagic over this issue for a quite a few weeks now, and it would seem a simple problem, but they haven’t managed to come up with any suggestions.

Matt Wright

[Deniz]

Hi.

here is the “Decklink x64 Driver Patch for Sony Vegas 8.0”
https://rapidshare.com/files/68636500/SonyVegas8_BlackmagicDecklink_x64.rar

First you have to upgrade “DeckLink 6.6.1 for Win XP x64”
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/

[Matt Wright]

Hi Deniz

Many Many Thanks, I will test this out first thing Monday Morning (UK). an let you know how I get on, Lets hope that this does the trick.

This qould be so exciting to get this to work.

Matt

[Deniz]

Hi Matt.

The trick really works well and i can say that it works better than the orginal declink 6.6.1 x32 driver (DeckLinkVegas.dll) which is placed in Sony\Vegas Pro 8.0\Video Hardware Drivers directory.

As you know decklink new x32 driver place the DeckLinkVegas.dll into Video Hardware Drivers directory however x64 do not. On the otherhand when we copy the DeckLinkVegas.dll file from x32 system to x64 system it realy works but i dont like the picture quality even selected best(full) on my panasonic full hd 42″ plazma screen.

So vegas 7 was coming with decklink driver called DecklinkVideoDevice.dll(DeckLink external video device v7.0.0.255)and placed in Video Hardware Drivers directory. I had just backuped the file and copy into the vegas 8 Video Hardware Drivers directory but decklink did not work then i added Decklink.dll(Decklink DirectShow DLL v6.6.1.63) coming with decklink x64 driver. Wow! it started to work. Moreover the picture quality is better than DeckLinkVegas.dll.
After all i backuped these two dll and made an auto install archive. I made it for x64 system but i think if you change the directory during installation it would be able to work with x32 system.

Deniz G

[Andrew Gould]

Hi Matt

Would this be Matt Wright from Freehand GFX?

Have you ever managed to get an XP-64 system working with a Decklink HD Pro PCI-X card? It all works fine on XP-32 with the same hardware configuration. For some reason XP-64 just won’t recognise the card properly.

Thanks

Kind regards

Andrew

[Ian Mcguffie]

Yes … runs under XPx64 successfully.

Had the same issues as you until we took the RAM down to 2GB (we had been running 4GB).

Have moved over to Vista64 with Quadcores – had to go and buy PCIe Decklink HD Extremes’s to get SDI/HD out as the original SD card wouldn’t work under Vista – forget the reason why though.

Since then Blackmagic have released a cheaper card – the Decklink Studio – which seems to do much the same as the HD Extreme.
BTW – XPx64 is a better OS than Vista with all its bloatware/useless features.

Good Luck