Alfred Guzzetti
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As you suggested, I tried going back to the Intensity 3.9.4 driver, but now Premiere Pro doesn’t see the Intensity card at all, though Final Cut Pro does and works fine as usual. I’m stumped.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Many thanks. I’ll give this a try. What I need to happen is to see full, smooth motion on my external video monitor without editing HD uncompressed (ridiculous when the source was HDV!). I’ll report back if I figure this out.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Many thanks. Any idea where I can get a 3.94 driver? (I’ll check of course to see what’s on the CD that came with the Intensity card.)
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Many thanks. Blackmagic just sorted this out for me on the phone. The problem was that I apparently updated my Intensity driver to 8.5 (which I read someplace that I had to do), after installing the trial version of Premiere Pro 5.5, and for that reason the Blackmagic choices didn’t appear on the panel you’re talking about. Now they do and the image played back from the timeline moves on the external CRT video monitor. But it doesn’t move very well. It stutters and sometimes stops. The only thing that I’ve found to work is to import HDV via Blackmagic UNCOMPRESSED. This is a bit too much for my computer, and I can see smooth motion on playback, both on the computer screen and the video CRT monitor, only if I render. Obviously, not a practical possibility for editing! The setting I’ve used for the sequence is YUV 1080 60i. So, unless I’m missing something, for the moment Premiere doesn’t seem to be an alternative to FCP given my addiction to the external video monitor. Onward to Avid (which apparently doesn’t work with the Intensity Pro card at all, though Intensity claims they’re working on it–we’re into the realm of the $1000 AJA card)!
Am I missing something (other than FCP, which worked so well for so many years?
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
I think the problem is that I don’t know exactly what you mean. When I open Premiere Pro 5.5, I get a “New Project” panel and under the pulldown “Capture Format” menu, one of the choices is “Blackmagic Capture.” Is this what you mean by “blackmagic preset folder”? Next to the pulldown menu, the settings button allows me to choose “HD 1080” and then “mpeg2” plus all the familiar settings of HDV. Under the “Capture Format” menu, as you suggest, I didn’t choose “HDV,” though I’m not quite sure what you mean about not choosing “hdv timeline.” You ask if I see the blackmagic presets when I create a new project. I assume you mean the “New Project” panel.
There must be something I’m misunderstanding here because the problem isn’t solved. I’d be very grateful for help.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Sorry, I spoke too soon. When I started a new project as you suggested and imported an HDV clip that I had captured via FCP, it worked just as you said it wuld. But when I tried capturing a new HDV with the preference set for Blackmagic (1440 x 1080 jpeg), the file came in empty (black and silent). When I changed the capture setting to HDV, the clip came in with both picture and sound but the old problem was reproduced: no motion in the Program window or Timeline. Is there a solution to this?
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Amazing! I never would have figured that out in a million years. How can I thank you enough?
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.8
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
I installed the Blackmagic 8.2.1 driver yesterday and still have the same problem that the others have: no moving image from the timeline or program. The Adobe info is unhelpful.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.3
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
Thanks for this information. I have FCP 6.0.5 and haven’t upgraded to version 7 because I need to be able to use export subtitles to DVDSP via TitleExchange, which depends on XML text exports. Spherico, which makes TitleExchange, issued a warning that FCP 7 doesn’t export line-breaks correctly as earlier versions did. This creates a laborious work-around. I don’t know if this has been fixed yet.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.3
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1 -
In the clip on the timeline instead of at the top of the timeline. I thought that the clip carried the chapter data.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.6.3
FCP 6.0.5
DVDSP 4.2.1