[Jim Scott]

Thanks Todd. I have tried doing exactly as the Blackmagic documentation specifies (which is rather lacking) with no success. For some reason I do not have an option in Premiere to select a Blackmagic output source though the Blackmagic presets are installed. I have written to Blackmagic for help.

Thanks again.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks for trying Danny.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks again Steve.

[Jim Scott]

I had a similar problem and Alan took care of it on New Year’s Day no less – great support.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks for the input Steve.

As far as extensions go my folder has 224 of them, most of which show dates much earlier than my Snow Leopard install. When installing Snow Leopard I did choose to have “settings” moved over from my old system so I assume the extensions came along then. As far as which ones to keep, and which ones to get rid of… I haven’t a clue. Do you?

[Jim Scott]

Thanks for the reply David.

Yes, the drive is recognized in System Profiler, and no this was not a problem on Leopard. I’m beginning to think that there may be more going on here as I am having increasing problems with hanging programs. For example, when I first tried to access the System Profiler in order to answer your question I got a spinning beachball and had to Force Quit and restart in order to finally access it. I have had a similar experience with Disk Utility as well as some Adobe CS5 programs. Interestingly enough after the restart there was a recovered file in the trash – com.adobe.dynamiclinkmanagerCS5 – which I have seen before after restarts. I have also seen a set of fonts (the same 7 ttf fonts) in the recovered files folder several times after a restart. Something is amiss.

Since I have heard that bad RAM can cause odd behavior I ran a RAM test with Rember. It took four hours and showed OK when it was complete. I have four 4gb Crucial RAM sticks, plus two 1gb Apple sticks.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

[Jim Scott]

You will have to get 64 bit versions of all your plug-ins – some are free, others have fees. Check with the developers of your plug-ins.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks anyway.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks John, that was just the kind of response I was looking for – I appreciate your insight.

[Jim Scott]

Don’t know if this will help or not but mine shows up as “pcibdbd,a117” in the System Profiler under PCI Cards (OS 10.5.8). I’ve only used mine to connect to an external HD Panasonic LCD so I can’t help out with any capture problems.

Good luck.