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James Fuller
October 7, 2009 at 10:20 am in reply to: Blackmagic DeckLink HD Extreme 3 bad component input

Doesn’t sound like the same issue as my problem seems to be on the input only and is fine if I input via SDI.

However, with your problem, it sounds like a bad connection (which is what I’d put my problem down to, had I not tested it with two different cards, compared with alternative capture hardware, etc.)
James Fuller
March 24, 2009 at 4:34 pm in reply to: XDCAM HD422 QuickTime to Avid

OK – great. Calibrated XD Decoder is an option – the cost is quite minimal if I take into account how long the XDCAM discs will take to back up from scratch (there are over 20 discs).

Thanks for you help!

James
James Fuller
October 31, 2008 at 1:48 pm in reply to: AJA io HD – video glitches, sound coming out of sync

Yeah, the firmware was updated, but the problem persists.
James Fuller
October 7, 2008 at 11:51 am in reply to: DeckLink Extreme HD – flicker on HD output – Mac OS X

FIXED!!!

I love you!

I had it in slot 2 to allow it to ‘breathe’ a bit. With the card in slot 4, if you have disks in all 4 bays of the Mac Pro, the DeckLink sits very close to the drives. It’s a while since I first installed the card, but I don’t remember instructions being so specific. Maybe this is something Blackmagic could consider revising? – although I seem to be the only one to have this problem…

Thanks for the help though!
James Fuller
October 7, 2008 at 9:32 am in reply to: DeckLink Extreme HD – flicker on HD output – Mac OS X

‘Define intermittent’ – headache inducing. By intermittent, I mean that the image on display literally flashes on and off. The speed of flashes depends on the screen resolution/refresh rate – 720p50 flashes very fast, 1080i25 slightly less, etc.

I’d love to be able to comment on the quality of the monitor, but the image onsceen is never stable enough to see the image – except when outputting in 8bit, which is often not an option.

Here’s another aspect of the problem: if I play a clip, FCP reports dropped frames. It’s like the timing of the whole system goes crazy when the display is set to output HD at 10bit (which is surely what it is supposed to do, right?)

This got me thinking: ‘maybe it’s a problem with Mac OS or FCP’. So I tried booting to Windows Vista and running a HD project in Premier – same thing happens, so apparently no problem with the software.

I’m beginning to think that we’re going to have to go for a new capture card as the Blackmagic seems to have fallen at the first HD hurdle.