Bernard Newnham
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Had a go with Fedora today. The driver package loads in an impressive manner, searching for dependencies and setting everything up so the driver is correctly loaded and working. Unfortunately when you run the control panel it says “no Blackmagic device detected”. I tried re-loading the driver package but it says it’s installed correctly.
I only have the one university-supplied computer to try all this on, so it could be that, but each distro seems to have different problems, so maybe not….
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And a follow-up, if anyone’s at Blackmagic is listening….
I’ve now tried on OpenSuse – failed because of something called libstrc++ . I had to download something called dkpm and install that, and was amazed that I succeeded, but then it said I needed this other thing. As far as I could work out, I already had, but it didn’t agree. It asked if I “wanted to break Blackmagic Decklink Driver” by continuing. In the end I said yes. It installed but didn’t work.
Linux Mint. This is derived from Ubuntu and Debian, but I thought I’d try anyway. Same problem as Ubuntu. A request for firmware upgrade which fails.
Blackmagic – if you offer something to work on a free operating system, why don’t you supply the operating system on the disk? Then it will work. A lot of these computers are just going to be doing one job. This one is supposed to be a studio video play-in machine. Linux would be ideal for this – if it worked.
Enough. I think it’s fair to say that in a user test, Blackmagic was not regarded as suitable to run on Linux. Or more accurately, Linux was not suited to run Blackmagic.
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bernie
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I spent a considerable number of years working as a BBC producer, and a large part of that was in edit suites. You need reasonably dead acoustics (carpet on the wall or whatever) and a choice of working or houselights. The working lights should be downers pointed at the desk surface without too much overspill. Get some comfortable working chairs to sit up at the desk, and a good sofa for the clients.
See here –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/pq/post/editing.shtmlB
bernie
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We use these –
https://www.creativevideo.co.uk/index.php?t=product/manfrotto_504hd546gbk A little above your price range, but anything less isn’t really worth having.B
bernie
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THe bit you need to worry about is getting the levels right before you start – microphones give out quite surprisingly different basic output levels. So, make sure you’ve done checks with realistic voice levels before you start recording, and it’ll all be wonderful.
Oh – and if you should decide to run in auto, see whether the autos on the two channels are separate. If they use a common auto sensor, and one track is very loud, the other will disappear – as discovered by me the hard way on a helicoper some years ago.
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Slashdot tonight has an item about crashing Macbook Pros –
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/1322248/2011-MacBook-Pros-Confirmed-To-Crash-Under-Load
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Put the clips on three layers then use a four point garbage matte on each one to cut out the bits you don’t need.
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I’ve had that problem several times. Multiclip is always a real pain to get going, and all the various and very obscure bits need to be set right and done in the right order, which then doesn’t work half the time. I just persevere till it works.
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bernie
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And the question is – what to do with a reduntant G4? All my old PCs get recycled with new motherboards etc and become new PCs, but my G4 is just a pretty box in the corner…..
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