[Yasser Amin]

Hello Brett

I have the same situation with my Decklink Extreme PCI-X card, can you explain in more details your computer configuration because I installed 4G ram and the card not working with Vista 64, did Windows 7 64 working ?
and how you reduce the memory from 4G to 3.5G ram in windows 7 ?

regards

[Yasser Amin]

Hello nicky

thank you for replay

in a 64 bit OS happens only with PCI versions of the cards.

PCI-X cards working in PCI and PCI-X slot and have the same problem with 64bit windows “test it in Vista 64”

am looking now for a solution to reduce the memory from 4G to 3G by bios or by increase hardware reserved memory in windows 7

Does anyone has a suggestion

still waiting for Decklink support guys opinion

regards

[Yasser Amin]

Hi Winsly

OS: Vista 32 Ultimate
CS4 PRODUCTION PREMIUM with last update: Premiere CS4 V4.0.1, Adobe Media Encoder V4.0.2.002
Decklink driver V7.1

[Yasser Amin]

any firmware update for Decklink cards is integrated in the driver

[Yasser Amin]

Hello Thomas

No way to get Decklink PCI working under XP or Vista 64 with 4G ram

I switched to Vista 32 with CS4 and last driver 7.1 and every thing working stable

regards
Yasser

[Yasser Amin]

Hello Winsly

I am very grateful because of your interest in my problem and I appreciate your tips to solve it

I switched to CS4 and with new Decklink driver V7 the problem is gone, but I will save it in my mined for future may be get the same problem with CS4

PS: I just test the new Decklink driver V7.1 and solve some problems with CS4 that if you use it

regards
Yasser

[Yasser Amin]

Hi Tracy

thank you for replay,

I have already sent an email to support@ blackmagic before I post my problem here but I don’t get any answer

I explain my problem again here https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/124/870506 my be I can get a help

for driver V7 I want to ask, Can be trusted ? is it stable ?
I read a feedback about it from user in Adobe and DVi forums that this driver is not stable, and here there is no any feedback about this new driver, Is it the time to switch to CS4 or must wait for Adobe update ?

thanks

[Yasser Amin]

Hi

again I will explain my problem may be I can get a help for this problem with my Decklink Extreme PCI

This is my workflow

1- Create new project in premiere from Blackmagic presets PAL 8Bit YUV 4X3
2- Import sequence TGA (720X576 24bit)
3- Export movie to Avi using the default setting (Blackmagic Compiler – Blackmagic 8-Bit 4:2:2 codec 720X576)
4- Create new Project with Blackmagic presets PAL 8Bit YUV 4X3
5- Import all Avi created from step 3 and begin editing
6- when I try to add any None Blackmagic RT transition (premiere transition) between 2 Avi without drag the tail of Clip 1 back and drag the head of Clip 2 foreword to get room to the transition between the two clips and get usual message “insufficient media. the transition will contain repeated frames” like in picture 1
https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8115/picture1q.jpg

if I scrub over the transition I can see the effect until to the end of the first clip (half of the transition) and get freezing for the last frame of the first clip until reach to the end of the transition then I can see the second clip, and if I try to render the effect I get the error message “Error compiling movie. Unknown error.”, if I try to play back, some times the premiere get serious error and freezing

7- if I slide the transition to left like in picture 2 every thing be alright and can render and play back without rendering the effect without any problem
https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1476/picture2q.jpg

8- if I slide the effect to right like in picture 3 I get all error abouve and can’t render the effect or play back
https://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8491/picture3y.jpg

9- with the RealTime transition that blackmagic support like Additive Dissolve, Cross Dissolve, Dip to Black, Dip to White, there is no problem in play back but if I deactivate Real Time render in Decklink Playback Settings applet and get the red line above the Dissolve transition area in the time line, I get all the errors I described before from rendering and play back

I try all Decklink driver with this workflow and get the same errors with all drivers accept driver version 6.7.2 it’s working very will with all transitions and can render the transition and can play back without rendering transition

finaly I notice that the driver can’t repeat the last frame in the first clip but can repeat the first frame in second clip

I try Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 and get the same errors
I try QuickTime V7.5.5 and V7.4.5 and get the same errors
I try my Stripped video HD and WD 500G single HD for import and export and get the same errors

if I create new project with premiere presets and without Blackmagic Decklink Playback with the same clips, every thing go stable and there is no any errors

PS: I test the last driver V7 and get the same error

My System
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Q6600 2.4 GHz
4GB ram 2 X Kingston KHX8500AD2_2G
Geforce 9800GT 1G ram GigaByte GV-N98TOC-1GH
WD 80G HD for System
WD 500G HD for Data backup
3 X 300G HD Segate Stripped from windows no Hardware raid using (my old Stripped Video hard drives from my old system SuperMicro P4SCT +II)
fresh install for Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1
Premiere pro 3.2
No addition programs or premiere plugins

thanks

[Yasser Amin]

can I get any answer from any one test the new driver

thanks

[Yasser Amin]

Great news but

1- did this new driver is stable with CS4 ?
2- did this driver solved the old problem with Decklink Extreme PCI and 4G ram issue with Vista 64 under CS4 ?
3- did this driver has this problem which described in this post
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/124/870359

can’t test the new driver because I am in med project, I appreciate any answer for this questions

thanks