[Nikolas]

the best way i think is open a new decklink 4>2>2 project capture your dv via firewire, and edit ite, then you apply effects, and other thinks, if you meke them in after effects you cuold rendr them blackmagic 10 bit 4>2>2, and if you make some in premiere, premiere works 16 bit 4>4>4 so the final render output of the project will be 10 bit 4>2>2.

you have dv you get dv but if you meke same color correction i’t will be the project space format, if you import a dv file in a 4>2>2 project the dv is still 4>1>1 8bit but when you touch it it will render like 10 bit 4>2>2.

it’s like this i think is faster work in DV and then color correct them

[Nikolas]

A Fresh System is thew best for these weird cases, also i rather take off the DL card isntall all system drivers, programs and then plug the card and install only the lastest drivers,

[Nikolas]

if you turn off the decklink desktop from control panel the capture doesent crach in 1.5

[Nikolas]

I had that problem, i fixed by two ways
1) Che the lastest video card driver.
2) create a new user profile in windows, ej admistrator or nik, and run programs without problem, otherwise you could delete \my documentes\adobe\premire pro\2.0\styles\workingset.prsl
and reinstall repair decklink drivers

by other way i found that the desinstaller of 5.4.x doesent delete the files from 1.5 but yes of 2.0 so when you install 5.5.x you finds that ppro 2.0 works but 1.5 crashes.

i think blackmagic need to make a decklinkdelete utiliti for all drivers so you can install on a fresh system

[Nikolas]

the best way is looping video signal to monitor so you send your deck signal to monitor and then the monitor output to decklink, so you can see what you capture and when you playback you can see it in the monitor
its the way i do it