Mark Burton
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Thanks for the heads up Mitch,
I was starting to think ATI were going to let this slip by them, but this is very good news. My X800 XT is sat in its box feeling sorry for itself. Time to plug it back in and fix the damn thing (downgrade the firmware). Having re-read the original ROM updater notes, I have no idea why I even thought I needed to do it in the first place – I thought I had learnt this lesson before with other bits of hardware, so I am really ashamed I fell for it this time!
Good luck to every one,
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Steinar,
Please re-read Luke’s post, it explains this very clearly:
“The DeckLink Macintosh v5.0 drivers are scheduled for release when Final Cut Pro HD v5.0 has been released.”Thank you for the update Luke,
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Hi Grant,
I work in PAL 24p film projects quite a lot and recently discovered that every clip which I had used the ‘Conform 25 to 24’ tool on, would end up one frame shorter after the conversion.
The work around was to Unlink the clip (make offline but keep media) and then Reconnect – the full length clip would then appear in FCP. This has always worked for me. I have not tried it with 23.976 media, but its worth a try.
A while ago, I submitted this as a bug through the developer connection and it has had its status changed to ‘Closed’ which hopefully means they fixed this in FCP 5. Time will tell.
Hope this works for you.
Mark
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Hi Robert,
Absolutly agree. What’s even more crazy is that this ROM update is still available on their site with the words, “This update is recommended for all RADEON X800 XT MAC EDITION cards.”
If others call ATI and get the, “no one else has this issue” response, along with Robert’s number, here is my ATI Support Ticket number, 737-797567.
Mark
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Hi Robert,
I too have had the exact same issue. Ran the ROM update and now the system crashes every time I start. Completely killed my G5. I have even tried reinstalling Panther, but made no difference. I have too been following the info over on Xlr8yourmac. A guy from ATI posted to it saying “all seems to be ok now”!!!!!!!!! What? There are a lot of people who have this happen to them.
Stay well away from this ROM update. ATI have no intention of helping anyone it seems.
Mitch, I think there are a few advantages of installing the ATI Displays drivers (note: not the ROM update). I think the most important component in the ATI ROM Xtender file which goes in the system extensions folder.
I had version 4.4.4 of ATI Display drivers installed since I received my card and until I did this damn ROM firmware update, everything ran beautifully.
Mark
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You have basically got it, however the * only works when using Centre justify.
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