[Martin Fitzgerald]

Hi Guys,

Wow still posting here!
Well after my last post in March I gave up the Vista route and
went back to XP and an old set of drivers for the Black Magic sdi card.
I had an edit I had to get done asap, so the frills were not
necessary when I just wanted to cut!!!

To say I still had problems is an understatement!!! But I got through the edit in the end. There were a lot of Sound issues, but this time (XP) it was that it would drop the audio during playback. It seems to be a memory problem, but since I have given up on BM and Adobe for any kind of serious work its not worth me investigating any further… After my performance -‘Its a software driver issue’ every few hours to my client, I doubt that I will be doing any more work for them.

In the end this little experiment cost me money and work.

Anybody want to buy the SDI card?

[Martin Fitzgerald]

Actually correct that… the Nvidia drivers had to be uninstalled
to get this to run and the base vista one left….

Also major issues to get the encoder to run!!!
You must always save the name of the ‘output file name’, you cant just
set up a file and do it quick!

What a pain!!! CS4 is really bugged… back to avid!

[Martin Fitzgerald]

Hi Guys… Just made a very interesting discovery whilst testing a trial version of prem cs4 (upgraded to 4.0.1). I have a black magic sdi card and the 10bit SD uncompressed video captures were staggering and stopping (after 5/6 sec) in both source and edit windows. I tried everything to sort out the issue when I discovered purely by accident that if you start adobe exporter (export your timeline) and then stop it the machine starts to play the files back perfectly!!! I had read a few different solutions which didn’t work like gfx drivers and processor affinity (thats setting premiere to work with just one core on an duo/quad and whilst this did help with 8bit it couldn’t handle the 10bit) and while messing with all these seemed to do things they didn’t solve the problem.

Now its working fine… bit messy, but!

Hope this helps someone!!!
Reply to this thread if it works for you.

Vista 32 (all updates to 25/3/09)
Quad Q6600 @ 2.4G
2GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8500 (256MB) Running 182.08 drivers
Black Magic decklink driver 7
Segate 7200.11 500GB eSATA