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I might give it a whirl on my older G5 PPC POwerMac later tonight, but I’m still keeping an eye on the Apple Discussions for both machines regarding the update. Gotta figure it’s the last version before Leopard, so there’s little room not to get it right.

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I’m smack in the middle of a big edit project, so I’m not going to chance it on my Mac Pro w/ FCP 5.1.4. Who’s gonna bite the bullet here?

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If you want to go the ultra-cheap route, you can take the audio converter/controller of this headphone setup:

https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2217094

..which accepts coax or optical digital in (the G5 has optical in/out), and hook up stereo mini-plug to RCA adapters to the analog outs (C/L/R/SL/SR/SW) to get separate analog outs.

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I’ve run into those problems as well taking in footage from DVD’s that are 24P. Have you tried not using the normal ‘Export DV’ in Streamclip and using Export Quicktime, then Apple DV/DVC Pro? If I’m just using video off of DVD from a 24p disc, I usually make them Photo-Jpegs @ 23.98, and edit that way. I’m not all that familiar with pulldown settings and such in Stremaclip, so perhaps someone else will shed more light.

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Usually, the discreet channels of audio on SDI are just channels of audio….like different language tracks, or separate music from effects and dialogue…used for mastering to give the broadcaster options, or if you are editing trailers for upcoming films and want the intended final music separate from the dialogue on your selects. These discreet tracks will each go to however many tracks your tape deck may have, or just pass through as their own tracks. It looks like your Deckling HD pro also comes with SPDIF audio out, so yes, you will need some sort of D/A converter or decoder. There are components for this, some for HiFi others for pro audio…with wide price ranges from $300 – several thousand for high end units. You could, of course, use an A/V receiver’s digital coax input, and then maybe tap the ‘record out’ RCA jacks to your mixer or what have you. The SPDIF will only output 5.1 surround if your source sound is encoded that way…like a Dolby Digital AC-3, or if a certain sound editing program has 5.1 output via the digital out. Otherwise, all it will be is a summed stereo output of whatever’s on your timeline, although I’m not familiar with realtime 5.1 editing.

There is no standalone D/A converter that I know if that will otuput the 12 discreet audio tracks on the SDI output as separate analog outputs. If there was, it would likely be quite costly. If you’re just looking to be able to monitor audio while editing out through your Decklink card, I’d look into integrating an AV receiver’s internal D/A converter, an older Technics converter like this:

https://cgi.ebay.com/MINT-Technics-Digital-Surround-Processor-SH-AC500_W0QQitemZ230100937389QQcmdZViewItem

a standalone D/A converter like the M-Audio flying cow:

https://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=716420

or this Behringer:

https://www.behringer.com/SRC2496/index.cfm?lang=ENG

or….if you want to get wierd, use the digital coax input on this:

https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2217094

and take the mini-plug analog audio outs via a mini-stereo to analog RCA adapter.

But again, if you’re just doing basic stereo audio tracks while editing in FCP…be it 2 or 12 tracks, the SPDIF will output a summed stereo of everything, with no way of separating them like with the SDI.

Good luck.