[Todd Makurath]

Thanks again Shane… I am digitizing from 1080p HDCAM tapes and there does not seem to be a way to capture at 720p24. I am using the BlackMagic Multibridge pro and absolutely tearing my hair out. Are you familiar with this setup?

I would love to have the smaller filesizes of 720 and then online back to 1080 but it just seems impossible through the Multibridge Pro. I’m pretty frustrated right now, because I want to be able to preserve space on my RAID.

[Todd Makurath]

Thanks for the heads up Shane… I will do some tests.

Here’s another question for you (which I thought I knew the answer to but now am not sure)… I am setting up my capture presets and in the compression choices there is:

DVCPRO HD 720p50
DVCPRO HD 720p60

I thought this was the fields (either PAL or NTSC) but then there is also a Framerate choice of 23.98.

Any thoughts?

[Todd Makurath]

So with the help of Sean and Carlos over at BM I got this fixed…

So for anyone who might come across this same problem, it had to do with the PCI slot that the card was in. Because default from the factory the MacPro is set to have PCI slot #3 at only 1x rate, it was not recognizing the PCI card. We went into Hard Drive>System>Library>Core Services and then used the “Expansion Slot Utility” to select a different allocation of speed to the PCI slots. We selected the second one down making PCI slots 3 and 4 run at 4x speed. Problem solved!

[Todd Makurath]

Thanks for the input Lars, I rebooted and updated the firmware (which said it would update to allow Multibridge to act as a standalone converter).

I still am not seeing a third “display” on the arrangement tab of the display screen and there is still no option on my sound preference to output sound through the MB. Is this normal?

Also, I was just told by my deck rental house that the the BlackMagic box sometimes has issues with frame accuracy. Has anyone on here cut and onlined (HDCAM shoot > DVCPRO capture > HDCAM online) through the Multibridge? Any issues? I just want to make sure I’m aware of any issues now so I can adjust/protect for them from the start.

Thanks!