Luke Maslen
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Hi Jeff,
That is correct and I’m still hoping we can do something to fix that with the Kona SD. The drivers seem to be working fine for everything except playing the After Effects framebuffer in real time. However it would be nice to make this work too.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Charlie,
Thanks for letting us know how the drivers are going. That is good news.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Steven,
You will need a dual-processor PowerMac G4/800 or faster with 512 MB RAM or more. More is better and 1 GB would be preferable. More details are provided at https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=60. Skip down to the section entitled Mac OS X 10.3 Panther configuration. This should cover most of what you need to know. It would also be a good idea to take a glance at this technical note https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=89. It discusses current software compatibility with Panther.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Craig,
There are some scenarios under which external video will become disabled in FCP. Firstly make sure you have chosen the applicable Blackmagic easy setup. This will also set the correct external video setting. Then go to the View menu and choose External Video>All Frames.
That would be the usual solution for video output disappearing and being replaced with the desktop.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Joao,
I’m glad you got it working although I’m not sure what was going wrong originally.
If you’re using a USB2 port on your G5, make sure that you have a high-quality USB2 cable when configuring the Multibridge, HDLink or Videohub. Good USB cables have better shielding and often have a “Hi-Speed USB” logo attached to them.
You mentioned having to perform multiple logouts and restarts and this seems to indicate a problem with your computer. As we have not received similar reports from elsewhere, it could be that you have performed a Mac OS X upgrade which has not gone smoothly. If you had previously installed Multibridge before upgrading Mac OS X, then it might be a good idea to reinstall the Multibridge Utility. Otherwise it would be nice to test this from another computer or with a fresh install of Mac OS X, perhaps on another hard disk.
Please let us know if you continue to experience any problems.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Bob,
The short answer is that it crops.
HDLink connects to LCD displays with a DVI-D connection, eg the 20 and 23″ Apple displays. The 30″ Apple display has a dual-link DVI-D connection and so HDLink does not support that. However the forthcoming Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Studio have dual-link DVI-D monitoring output built-in so you can use them with the 30″ display.
We experimented with connecting a HDLink to the Apple 30″ display and found that the display automatically doubles the size of all video received from the HDLink. This isn’t very good for monitoring as a lot of a HD1080 image extends outside of the area of the display as it is attempting to display HD1080 at x2. You can kind of use it but I don’t think it is a very useful combination for most work and we don’t support that configuration.
The DVI-D monitoring output of the Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Studio will support the use of single-link DVI-D and dual-link DVI-D displays.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi,
[AJA Sales Department] “The driver supplier for the Kona SD and Kona HD unilaterally decided to discontinue support and further development last year.”
That is incorrect and even contradicts John Abt’s statement at the time. We stated that we would not add new features to the Blackmagic Kona drivers but that we would continue to provide maintenance updates as required.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=107199894832449&forumid=98&highlight=&archive=_2003
Please check with John if you are in any doubt.We continued to supply driver updates for the Kona HD card up to the point that AJA swapped them out for Kona 2 cards. The swap-over deal was in October 2004 and we kept updating the drivers up to December 2004 and those are still on our web site at https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86.
To this day, we also continue to maintain driver updates for Kona SD as AJA never provided their own drivers for the card. Details of current Kona SD driver support can be found at
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86Luke Maslen
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Hi,
We are still maintaining drivers for Kona SD including FCP5 and Tiger support. You can find the current details here:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86We’ve just found a bug with the Kona SD under Tiger so we will fix that in the next few hours and post the fix in the next update which will be the DeckLink v5.0b3 drivers.
Luke Maslen
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Hi Peter,
We still have Kona SD cards support in our drivers and it even works in Tiger and FCP5. You can find the details at https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi,
[AJA Sales Department] “The driver supplier for the Kona SD and Kona HD unilaterally decided to discontinue support and further development last year.”
That is incorrect and even contradicts John Abt’s statement at the time. We stated that we would not add new features to the Blackmagic Kona drivers but that we would continue to provide maintenance updates as required.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=107199894832449&forumid=98&highlight=&archive=_2003
Please check with John if you are in any doubt.We continued to supply driver updates for the Kona HD card up to the point that AJA swapped them out for Kona 2 cards. The swap-over deal was in October 2004 and we kept updating the drivers up to December 2004 and those are still on our web site at https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=86.
To this day, we also continue to maintain driver updates for Kona SD as AJA never provided their own drivers for the card.
[AJA Sales Department] “We felt original Kona customers were being treated unfarily”
Huh? We continued to maintain and update the drivers while AJA was supposed to be developing their own. You’re the guys who “… initially announced AJA driver support for original Kona cards, but this has not occurred.”
Furthermore AJA failed to pass on verified reports of problems from Kona customers for us to fix, even though we checked with AJA each week, in the conference calls with Apple, if there were any Kona problems. It was only when a customer directed me to this forum that we found lots of disillusioned customers who had been told by AJA that these were known problems with the Kona SD drivers and that the only solution was to buy a Kona 2 or wait for the AJA drivers.
That’s when we realized we had to do something to help and so incorporated the Kona SD drivers in to the DeckLink drivers. This makes it easier for us to provide support for the Kona SD without having to maintain separate driver code. The bonus for Kona SD customers is they now have access to new features and compatibility with Tiger and Final Cut Pro HD v5.0.
So please don’t cast aspersions at our driver support. We’re doing the best we can to maintain support for the Kona SD. By contrast, AJA has never provided the promised drivers for Kona SD and instead recommends purchasing a replacement card.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=107199894832449&forumid=98&highlight=&archive=_2003
That seems unfair to me. Next time, please post your name so we know who you are.Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design