Paul Hart
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Well I got no responses but in case anyone else is in this boat here is where I am at. I first cloned my start up drive so I could go back if needed.
I upgraded my graphics card to the Sapphire Radeon 9750, Mac edition with 3Gb of VRAM. Before installing the 9750 I upgraded to 10.8.5 and BM 9.7.5. FCP 7.0.3 and Adobe CC are all working fine. I just upgraded to BM 9.9.2 and everything still seems fine.
In the Decklink system preference my Decklink HD Extreme 3 card is recognized but there is one major gotcha to watch out for. Do not select extended Desktop. When I did this it sent the extended desktop to my main monitor and nothing to my FSI SDI. It was a bit of a nightmare to get my monitor back since I couldn’t access anything. PM me if you run into this.
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I just encountered the same problem with BM’s 9.9.2 and After Effects CC 12.1. There was no audio output and nothing showing showing on the meters in After Effects. When I went to the Audio Mapping preference and changed to Built in Output it crashed AE. I got around this by first changing Audio Hardware in the AE preferences to Built in Output. This allowed me to change the mapping preferences to Built in output and sure enough the Decklink card showed up on the left and right channels menus. I then reset both the Audio Mapping and Audio Hardware to System Default Input/Output and now everything is working properly.
OSX 10.8.5
Decklink Extreme 3
Mac Pro 4.1 -
You should definitely render first and the method of rendering a self contained Quicktime and then placing that in Compressor allows you to continue editing in FCP while Compressor renders in the BG.
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The current version of Sony’s software does not support the 35 MBS flavor which is the highest quality and the only one most people would shoot with.
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Shake is your best bet.
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I have seen them both side by side and the Blackmagic HDLink definitely has better blacks. That said when it comes to scaling SD up to fill the monitor then the AJA seems to do a better job. The HDLink has a USB connection which allows for firmware updates and allows you to calibrate your monitor as well as an interlace simulator. I personally would choose the HDLink.