Sean Oneil
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Make sure the proper Decklink format is selected for video output, and that video output is turned on for all frames. These can both be found in the “View” menu in Final Cut.
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An X800 is the best card and does not take up an extra slot. Go with that. The only thing the 6800 has on it is the ability to drive two 30″ displays. The X800 can do one 30″, plus a second <30" monitor with a single-link DVI connection or a VGA connection.
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It’s a simple self-explainatory device. No need for a manual. Make sure you isolate the multibridge. Did you connect your video output directly to a monitor?
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The AJA IO works through the firewire port. One normally wouldn’t need a Decklink or a Kona with it. However, I think the IO is neat how it works over firewire and all, but you can get almost everything the IO offers with a Decklink Extreme by itself. And you won’t have to waste your firewire bandwidth. I’d reccomend the IO fo someone with a Powerbook or a MacMini. If you have PCI-X slots, use them instead.
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This has been brought up before. Make sure you don’t have any Automatic Duck plugins. If you do, throw them in the trash (or back them up or whatever). Your video output will come back on.
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While otherwise rock solid, I’m having serious rendering issues with the new Final Cut Studio on Tiger. I haven’t tried HDV but I anticipate we’re having the same problem. I opened up an old project (720p uncompressed) that took 45 minutes to render in FCP 4.5. Now it’s telling me it will take 4 hours.
I had another project filled with Live Type and Motion project clips. Hitting “option-R” to render worked for about 30 seconds. Then it gives me an “out of memory” error. I can get the job done by rendering a little bit, hitting cancel, and the rendering a little more, etc.
I opened up a Live Type project in the new Live Type which I had to change one word of text in it. I rendered it to a Quicktime. It got to the 90% mark and then said I was out of memory. I restarted, repaired permissions, yadda yadda, and I still get that error. It worked fine with the Live Type on Panther. My solution was to copy it to a co-worker’s G5 (same as mine) which still had the old pro apps on it. It worked fine.
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If only we could edit our own posts.
It dawned on me that FCP5’s new high quality scaling could be why what was a 45 minute render now takes 4 hours. That’s a huge increase. I still think something’s wrong.
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Sorry for all the posts but this seems like a big problem now.
This same exact sequence used to take 45 minutes to render.
Now it says it’s 4 hours. I realized this could be some kind of effect handling. Before, we were supposed to pick Final Cut HD to handle the standard def uncompressed effects, and Blackmagic HD to handle the high-def effects. It appears that Uncompressed high-def is no longer one of the menu choices, and that Blackmagic HD isn’t an option in any of the menues.
I changed the Uncompressed handling to Blackmagic SD but it still says 4 hours.
And BTW, stable black video sync out of my HD Plus still doesn’t work. I have to use genlock on the card to sync to my digibeta. I have a DL Extreme and a regular Decklink here. Neither have this problem on the same system. Using a sync reference from my black burst would be fine (why I got the HD Plus to begin with), but of course this causes random black flashes upon playback which many others have complained about as well. The HD Plus diagram specifically says the output is for a deck, not for a monitor. Yet is appears it’s acting as if it were for a monitor by not spitting out a stable black signal.
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So the original problem changed the sequence to Apple’s Uncompressed format. It still wouldn’t render. Then I changed it back to Blackmagic 10-bit in the sequence settings and now it works. Very odd.
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I recreated the error. After trying to render over and over again, selecting “Easy Setup” in the menu brings it up. It says:
“Video compressor Blackmagic 10 Bit was not found. Please check that hardware is present and enabled for this compressor. Setting the video compressor to Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2.”
Everything else works fine. No problem rendering other types of Blackmagic settings.