Alan Hunter
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Matt,
Had the same thing happen to me. You may want to shut down your system, pull your SDI cables and restart the system, then shut it downa again and plug eveything back in and restart.
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Scott,
I fullyt agree with you, if you go the MAC route the road has a tendency to be a bit less bumpy, but like one of my favorite groups just to sing; You Can’t Horses In The Middle of The Stream. Thus I feel stuck after my most recent investment into a unit to stay with PC. As far as what we do; we produce a weekly golf show seen in more than 20-million homes around the US. We are just finishing up our second year and within several months we will open an office in North Carolina. Our original office is in Scottsdale.
my e-mail; alan@tvgolfshow.com
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Scott,
I fullyt agree with you, if you go the MAC route the road has a tendency to be a bit less bumpy, but like one of my favorite groups just to sing; You Can’t Horses In The Middle of The Stream. Thus I feel stuck after my most recent investment into a unit to stay with PC. As far as what we do; we produce a weekly golf show seen in more than 20-million homes around the US. We are just finishing up our second year and within several months we will open an office in North Carolina. Our original office is in Scottsdale.
my e-mail; alan@tvgolfshow.com
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Scott,
The only problem with a “one shop” fits all program (as is the case with Matrox AXIO) those box builders have jacked up the cost so much, that its almost an insult. Part per part you can add an additional 10-25% for whatyou can buy the same product for from say a Newegg, TgierDirect or other retailer. I followed Blackmagic-Design’s reccomendation per their site for an “SD” unit. Maybe if it was a tab bit more detailed as to what to do and what not to do then maybe some of the problems would not exsist. We’ve had a Matrox system for alomst four years now, and yes, at first it was a headache, but eventually we worked out all the bugs. I for one (and I worked on them extensively) do not like Macs, but never say never. Still, I grew eating apples, not working with them.
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Shane,
What I’ve done is gone in and cleared out every BM file within the system. I’ve reloaded the latest drivers (hopefully no keyboard problem this time) and I’m currently in the process of the downloading XP Service Pack 2. We’ll see what happens once all of this done.
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Shane,
Here’s another issue that reared its ugly head. I initiate my deck control, it opens and up pops video from the deck…great! I then go into preferences, make some changes and whammo, the signal is gone. The output from my multibridge to my encoder/beta is no longer there. Right now I’ve pulled my Decklink card, deleted all related software and have disconnected the multibridge. THis is not the way to begin a work week! I need to be inputting video and writing stories today…Fed EX comes on Thursday for my tapes! Any idea what is going on.
Thanks
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Andrew,
Thanks for the repsonse. I will send my system info just as soon as I get to my office. But in the mean time, yes I am using PPro 1.5.1 and on several occassions installed the latest drivers getting the same results. I even swapped out keyboards (DV Keyboard with another editng keyboard) with the same results.
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Shane,
We tried the new 5.3 drivers, but unfortunatley they do not work for us. No control on keyboard. Gone back to 5.2 with some stability.
Asus Mobo
Intel 830D
2 gigs PC6400
Nvidia 6600GT
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Matt,
Sorry for the late reply. No, you do not get the Link encoder with it, but they do offer a 10% discount on the product if you order it through them.
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Drew,
I’m glad to hear that you found a solution. We too have purchased a newsroom-based sfotware that allows us to to close captions in conjuction with the Link 854d. All told, this system set us back $4,100.00 (US). In addition, we get a more accurate picture on back timing our programs. Now I just have to get use to running a prompter! Wow…where has my career gone?