Sean Lander
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I would upgrade everything. Decklink to 5.5.1, Tiger 10.4.6, FCP 5.04 or 5.1, make sure you have your ATTO card up to date with firmware and drivers as well. So far for me it’s been the best most stable configuration I’ve had.
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Yes because motion effects always come before filters you will need to apply the BASIC 3D filter ABOVE
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Yes it does. But you can’t use the 5.4.x drivers. You must use anything from 5.2.x back. You may have some anomolies but over all it works just fine. We are in the same boat, waiting for the Intel PowerMacs with PCIe.
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Ok thanks. Now how about re-naming the drivers to Z-Blackmagic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the link to the crash report. Seems others are having the same problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1764558#1764558
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[Kristian Lam] “Ah ok. This has something to do with OS X 10.4.3’s OpenGL rendering and it should be resolved if you update to 10.4.4. Please let us know if this is not the case.”
It’s not the case I’m afraid. Already on 10.4.5.
Also. Are you sure that it is iChat trying to grab the Decklink and not the Decklink trying to grab the iSight? It’s funny that if you go to capture mode in FCP you can then use iChatAV and the iSight. But if you open the Blackmagic Deck control you can’t. Isn’t the Blackmagic Deck Control the same as going to capture mode?
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Indeed if you do turn off the Video Desktop setting in the control panel it will fix the crashing in iPhoto 6.
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More information for you. We’ve been running Kona 1s on a G5 2 gig and a G4 Dual 1.25 for a while now. (Waiting for the intel Macs with PCIe before we upgrade) All Blackmagic driver have worked perfectly. Until 5.4. When installing 5.4 you still get a line monitor out put but FCP won’t see it. Reverting back to 5.2.4 solves the problem. Though you must uninstall the 5.4 drivers first. Both of these systems are running Tiger 5.4.4 and FCP 5.04. We have been on Tiger for quite some time so it’s not related to that.
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[Bob Zelin] “My thought is to splurge, and get a nice $295 Decklink SP card, and retire your old unit. “
Why? If it’s a Kona-1 then it should be fine. A $295 Decklink card unfortunately won’t give you AES/EBU in out either.
IMHO hang on to the Kona-1 until it’s time to upgrade the whole CPU then go with either a AJA or Blackmagic PCI Express unit. -
Thanks for the tip. No I wasn’t after an offline setting. It’s a finished TV series that I would like to take away some of and edit at home into my demo reel. Just made sense to do this as DV. I’ll have a go at IMX and see what it’s like. Thanks.
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Sorry didn’t realise this would get put down the bottom of the list. I was replying to Sean O’Neil saying that it is possible to enable RT for Photo-Jpeg