[Richard Squires]

that’s not very helpful really

richard

[Richard Squires]

Any more info on this.

I have been holding off on this and Tiger for a while now and would love to know if 7.0.3 has any issues

regards

Richard

[Richard Squires]

This is just getting crazy. I have put off going to Tiger and FCP 5.0 for the gamma reasons. I have everything installed but am still working in Panther. I am not confident in the Blackmagic drivers as they stand at the moment.

regards

Ricard

[Richard Squires]

Cheers for the tip.

I use EchoFire too but it doesn’t do very fast previews so I keep switching it off, preferring the Ram preview. I used to have to close down and reopen with EchoFire to do ColorFinesse work. Now I don’t have to!

The really good thing that EchoFire does and what I find invaluable is being able to preview the image with a 16:9 or 14:9 crop to a 4:3 screen. If you’ve never seen this it is a really useful thing. Most 16:9 material still must comply to 4:3 safety zones, so it’s a really useful thing to be able to see exactly what is being cropped.

regards

Richard

[Richard Squires]

Hi Luke

thanks for the reply. Yes I too am a big fan of “if it ain’t broke” so perhaps I should give the Decklink update a miss. I don’t think from reading your post, that any of the improvements relate to me. I guess it’s easier to update the drivers than it is to update the system, but at the moment my system is running fine so I think I’ll leave it

regards

Richard

[Richard Squires]

Why do you advise against using this with 10.3.9?

I am curious as I have 10.3.9 and it seems to work fine with the 4.8 drivers. I really don’t want to have to re install 10.3.8.

regards

Richard

[Richard Squires]

Thanks Matt for clearing this up.

I will do this and report back.

One thing. Will doing this affect Apples suite of programs. I assume some of the easy setups in FCP will need to access the Apple Uncompressed codec and what happens if they don’t find it?

regards

Richard

[Richard Squires]

Hi Chris

Thanks for that and I agree with you.

It galls me to spend money on upgrades that break my workflow rather than enhance it. Yes it gets fixed in a couple of months, but my money has already left the building, with the promise of a better more productive workflow evaporating in front of my eyes. I am currently still working in Panther with an install of FCP 5 and Motion 2 on a Tiger partition doing sweet you know what. Very annoying indeed. I have looked at the AE forum and haven’t seen any posts about this issue. I’ll do a bit more digging though

cheers

Richard

[Richard Squires]

I second that. The file sizes are small and they drop onto the timeline really fast. It took at least a year to figure this out but now life is good. Straight alphas are a must though

regards

richard

[Richard Squires]

Hi Chris

I wonder if you have this problem too. I am using PAL 10 bit Uncompressed 16:9 settings. I have made an easy setup by duplicating the 4:3 ratio Blackmagic 10 bit uncompressed set up, and adjusting the aspect ratio setting.

Place a 10 bit uncompressed clip into After Effects. Toggle 16 bit on and I see horrible digital artefacts hard to explain so here’s a picture I grabbed:

https://homepage.mac.com/rsquires/blackmagic/ae10bit_artefact.jpg

I have tried exactly the same clip on my old setup ( Panther 10.3.9, AE 6.5, FCP 4, and BM 4.8 ) and it shows no difference with none of these artefacts. I know my Panther set up is not a supported system set up but it works the way it should.

regards

Richard