[Georg P. mueller]

If nobody answers I’ll step in… ☺

You can adjust the “In Duration” and “Out Duration” in the title settings. If that is still too fast, what I’d do is to make the title a compound clip (option+G). This allows you to change the speed, do a speed ramp, or whatever you like.

For some titles it is possible to right-click and open in motion where you can adjust the timing more precisely. I tried that with the built-in fade title you mentioned but it didn’t work there.

[Georg P. mueller]

The current version works well for me and does all I need it to do. That said – where is the update? It’s been like forever! Can’t wait to see what improvements and new features 10.5 will bring.

When can we finally expect 10.5?

[Georg P. mueller]

I, too had ongoing issues with BM drivers – the newer ones had no video output at all and I was forced to stay on an older version which gave me regular crashes. Fingers crossed for V10.9.5 – it seems a bit sluggish on my system but it hasn’t crashed all day.

[Georg P. mueller]

To answer my own question – it DOES work – kind of. I was messing with a close-up shot of the color checker and for the life of it I can’t make it work. But then I tried with a wider shot and lo and behold – after selecting the “Display Grid Chart” checkbox the image slightly dimmed and I was able to click on each corner (first yellow, then green, etc.) I could mask out all the color boxes and successfully auto-matched the image.

I went back and tried the same thing with the close up shot of the color checker video – nothing happens no matter what box I check and where I click in the image window. It does not even dim down.

It’s probably my mistake, but I searched for clear instructions and didn’t find any (only instruction videos for one of the previous versions). “Display Chart Grid” is not very intuitive. Perhaps it should be called “Mask out Chart Grid”.

[Georg P. mueller]

Did you see any improvements in FCPX (render times, responsiveness) that make it worth the upgrade?

[Georg P. mueller]

I thought I get tricky now and force-install driver 9.9.2 using the Pacifist installer, by-passing that error message about my OS. It asked me to overwrite all kinds of existing files which I allowed. The installation didn’t work and the BMD device not recognized in system prefs.

So I over-installed the current driver 10.4 again (for the 5th time). Started FCPX and (drumroll…) – it works now!

So I guess when you uninstall the blackmagic driver it does not remove all files and when you re-install it does not overwrite everything that is left. Pacifist did it though and now I am BACK in business!

[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for chiming in. I still haven’t resolved the issue. I have tried several BMD thunderbolt devices – same result. It shows up under system prefs and also works fine with FCP7.

But X fails to see it.

I have reinstalled Yosemite from the recovery disk – no change. I have tried to revert back to BMD desktop video version 9 (the one that works) but it wouldn’t allow me to install it on the current OS (10.10.3). I have uninstalled/re-installed and tested the previous versions 10.3.5 and 10.3.7 of BMD desktop with no success.

[Georg P. mueller]

Wow – extremely cool and useful!

[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Ronny

Check on all of your counts, too.
You mentioned combining the new masks with the mocha tracker from slicex . Would love to make this work – how can you track the built-in masks?

Georg

[Georg P. mueller]

I tried it with different cameras, different resolutions (1280, 1920 and 4K), on different computers. I tried tracking areas, all different modes and experimented with the strength sliders. In every single instance the built-in stabilization gave superior results right out of the box. Ah well, moving on and sticking with what I got.