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David Debono
August 11, 2011 at 4:31 pm in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

Sorry,

The links to the test MAC software were indeed valid just the hyperlink did not grab the last few characters when I cut & pasted from the email I received from BM Support.

It should be okay if you just cut paste the whole string into your browser and bypass the built in hyperlink.

Note – my intial test with the Mac version (1 x 30 min video & 1080 – 20 Mbps) seems to indicate the glitching is gone but the CPU usage on my Macbook Pro is insane (ties up both processsor 90%) and the realtime display of the capture keeps dropping frames/ audio etc but the actual recording seems okay.

DD
David Debono
August 10, 2011 at 11:22 pm in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

I finally managed to get through to tech support and now have the links to the Mac version of the latest test build.

I have not tried it yet but will do so soon.

Here are the links for any of you that need it!

https://seeds.blackmagic-design.com/H264ProRecorder/DesktopVideo_8.2.1rc3.dmg
.zip
https://seeds.blackmagic-design.com/H264ProRecorder/MediaExpress_2.4rc45.dmg.
zip

DD
David Debono
August 10, 2011 at 12:55 am in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

Hi Mark

I tried the download links but they were Windows versions so I could not use them on my Mac setup.

If anyone has info re the Mac version, can you please post the link.

Thanks!

David Debono
David Debono
August 10, 2011 at 12:42 am in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

Thanks Mark for the links!

I will give the new software at try.

David
David Debono
August 10, 2011 at 12:16 am in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

Hi Kristian Lam

Re: Glitchy capture issues

Note – I sent an inquiry on Aug 7th to BlackMagic Support requesting they send a link to download the new test build you referenced re Glitches in capture. I copied your response to this thread along my original posting but I have had no response from BM to date.

Can you please nudge this along with support as the h.264 Pro unit is not usable in its current form?

Thank you

David Debono
David Debono
August 9, 2011 at 11:20 am in reply to: Any suggestions for Software to Work with Blackmagic Decklink Card for Realtime Multi-Layer HD Compositing?

Thanks Nicolas for the suggestion, I will give it a look.
David Debono
August 6, 2011 at 5:18 pm in reply to: H.264 glitchy video and some experience with the device so far

I am also experiencing the same issues of random glitches and artifacts when Capturing HD1080. I am using the Mac version of software.

I have tried internal and external drives, run disk speed tests etc and changed the capture bite rates from 8 to 20 Mbps with no improvement.

I can only get reliable results (no noticable randwom glitches) if i use the AppleTV setting which has max quality setting of 5mbps and only records at 720p (not good enough for my purposes).

I tried all the latest s/w drivers etc with no impact.

The other thing I have noticed when capturing is that the black levels also get crushed a fair bit (I am feeding it 1080i source via HDMI). I wonder if anyone else has notice this black level issue.

It seems to me to be a problems with the BM firmware or software that relate to 1080 processing… when I received the unit it did not even have any software included, just a note telling me the software was not ready at the time of packaging and to download it from their site.

Usually I have had great experiences with BM products. I hope BM can quickly release updated firmware and s/w to resolve … otherwise this is an expensive paper weight … it seems to have been rushed out the door and is not ready for pro use.

Hopefully someone from BM can respond to this thread.