[Luke Maslen]

Hi Justin,

Which Sony camera are you using? You must use DeckLink drivers with the DeckLink HD Studio. It is not possible to use Intensity drivers with it.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

Currently the DeckLink HD Studio does not capture from the DVI output of graphics cards. Our engineers are working on an update to DeckLink HD Studio to add support for newer HDMI devices that have been released subsequent to the initial release of the DeckLink HD Studio. It is quite possible that this will help with your attempt to capture the DVI output of your MacBook Pro although we won’t know until the new update is ready to test. I believe this should happen within the following month.

I do know that the Intensity card running Intensity 1.3 drivers is able to capture 1280×720 and 1920×1080 resolutions from a MacBook Pro. Unfortunately the Intensity cannot be used in a PowerMac G5 at this time so you would need to use it in a Mac Pro or a PC.

I cannot guarantee that the DeckLink HD Studio will capture the DVI output of your MacBook Pro. It was not designed to do that but it might be possible with a firmware update. Intensity originally could not capture from DVI outputs but a subsequent driver/firmware update added this capability. The two cards use different hardware so will simply have to try adding this feature to DeckLink HD Studio to see if it works.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Todd,

That’s great news. For future reference, please refer to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac Pro Configuration. This includes the necessary PCI profile information to ensure there is enough bandwidth on each slot for the Multibridge Pro to work.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Erik,

Please see the support note 2 channel stereo capture in Final Cut Pro 5.x which details how to turn off unwanted audio tracks during capture. The support note talks about only capturing 2 channels but you can certainly keep 4 channels using the same method.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Eli,

We don’t down convert 1080 to 720 so capturing to either DVCPRO HD or JPEG would be the best options for your offline work. We use Apple’s PhotoJPEG codec and it is full resolution 1920×1080 but it doesn’t support RT effects. On the other hand, DVCPRO HD is not full resolution but it does support RT effects. One of these two formats should be appropriate for you.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

No it is not possible to connect a DVI-based display, such as the Apple 23″ display, to the HDMI output of Multibridge Pro. The two choices would be:
1. Connect a HDLink to the spare SDI output of the Multibridge Pro and the connect the Apple 23″ display to the HDLink.
2. Multibridge Extreme has a DVI output you can connect to the Apple 23″ display.

Both Multibridge Pro and Multibridge Extreme include component analog input and output which can be connected to your Betacam SP deck or used for analog monitoring.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Brett,

The information I was hoping to obtain was whether all the codecs you see listed in After Effects, also appear in Procoder and other applications. Is it only Blackmagic codecs that are missing in Procoder or are some of the other codecs also missing?

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Dean,

Can you rewind Windows back to a point where it was all working fine? This sounds like an installation problem with the drivers so rewinding would be the first step and avoids having to reinstall the system.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Mark,

Intensity and Intensity Pro do not work on G5’s and you would need to use a Mac Pro. We designed the Intensity cards to work on G5’s as well as PC’s and Mac Pro computers. However there is a bug in a chip that just affects G5’s and we’ve been pushing the chip manufacturers to fix it but that hasn’t happened. There are three parties pointing fingers at each other so I would not count on G5-compatibility even though we will continue to push for this. It’s very frustrating and we even delayed the release of the Intensity card for a couple of months thinking that this problem was going to be resolved but it’s now half a year later and we’ve seen no sign of real progress. We’ll keep pushing the chip manufacturers to solve the problem for G5’s and we’ll certainly post information on our web site and in this forum if it does get fixed.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design