Thanks for your responses.
Luke,
I am running a broadcast monitor (ikegami tm14-17r) and it is multistandard i believe, however I am using an sdi to component converter which I will test today when i get access to more sdi feeds! however due to the other problems I feel this might not be the problem but you never know…..
I do not have more than 64 components in my quicktime library and it is definately the blackmagic codec component that flips FCP out.
My os is 10.4.8 and am indeed running quicktime 7.1.3.
As for RAM everything else has been fine and dandy up to this point, I’ll investigate moving the card tonight.
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