[Damien Molineaux]

gary adcock:

“FYI – the new desktops do not have the Expansion slot utility since all of the slots are now 16x”

I just installed a new PCI-E card in a brand new 8 core MacPro, when trying to launch the application which uses the card (Redcine-X with a RedRocket) I got a message saying the card was in a 4x slot and it required an 8x. Of course there is no Expansion Slot Utility on my machine. What’s up?

Cheers,
Damien

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[Damien Molineaux]

Sorry, I didn’t do my homework, hardware down conversion is apparently only supported on the Deckling HD pro. I guess with an HD plus I’m stuck with the software down conversion, however the quality is not satisfactory, what a disapointment. I will try and do a down conversion inside FCP and see if I get a better result, the only problem is it’s going to take many many hours of rendering.

Cheers,
Damien
earthling productions

[Damien Molineaux]

I’m glad your problem is solved. I have a different problem, I can get an SD output with the software down conversion enabled in the Blackmagic preference panel and FCP set to HDTV50i 25 Hz (my timeline is PAL DVCproHD) but the image is clearly pixelated.

Does anybody know how to activate the hardware down conversion, and is it better ?

My system : G5 2x2GHz, 3.5 GB ram, Mac OS X.4.5, FCP 5.0.4, QT 7.0.4, Decklink drivers 5.4.2

With my reagrds,
Damien Molineaux
earthling productions