Word on 6.1 Drivers for PPC with FCP 5.0.4

[Chris Borjis]

In an attempt to solve two persistent problems with my multibridge extreme,
I installed 6.1, AFTER upgrading OS X and Quicktime to meet the other installation requirements.

It seems to work fine with 5.04

It did not solve my two issues though and I’m still waiting for Black Magic
support to acknowledge one of the issues I’m having.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi,
Yesterday I installed FC 5.1.2 and with the old drivers (5.7.3) was working fine. Today I installed the 6.0 and this doesn’t work. While I was looking for the new drivers (6.1) I sow a note in the Decllink web site (April 04/07) that says that the only drivers quallified by Apple, up today, are the 5.7.3r2. I don’t know yet about the 6.1, but at least the 6.0 are especifically made for FC 5.1.x, not for the 5.0.x
Afeter the installation I will post how this work.
Cheers,
rafael

[Rafael Amador]

I’ve just installed the 6.1 drivers and they do not work. The reason may be that I’ve got FC 5.1.2 and those drivers are for FC 5.1.4. In the SYSTEM SETTINGS> EFFECTS HANDLING, the Blackmagic it doesn’t appear as an option for any of the codecs. At first sight the card do not manage properly the interlacing.
Untill now whenever I broutht a PAL DV clip (lower-first) to a 8/10b Unc time-line I had to uncheck the “Shift-fields” filter that FC apply to change the field order, because the Blackmagic make the field-shift by it self. Now the Blackmagic do not shift the fields order, so I must keep the filter on. Anyway I tried to render a slow-down clip and it nevermind if I let the “Shift-fields” or not, the result is a big interlacing mess.
I’ve being reading some post from a few days ago and its seems that the people of BM are working on the issue.
I go to re-install the 5.7.3 drivers and lest see.
Cheers,
rafael

[Chris Borjis]

thats weird that 6.1 works perfectly fine with 5.04 but it does.

Did you make sure your meeting the requirements for OS X and quicktime
versions? (I did do that)

[Rafael Amador]

The 5.7….do not handle the interlacing. So just to options:
– Go back to the 5.0.4 (why did I up-dated?).
– Wait for the people of BM to fix the bugg.
I’m running a G5 2x2Gbs and 4GBs RAM with a BM ExtreemSD. MacOx 10.4.9 and QT 7.5
BTW, is normal that Boris CC3 effects do not work with the 5.1.2? Curiously if I set a BCC3 effect to a clip only works if there is another effect applied to that clip. If set the BCC3 effect alone, it doesn’t work.
Cheers,
rafael