Capturing low res HD 1080i

Hey all,
I am trying to capture HD footaged at low res photo jpg. I am going through a black magic decklink.... I was hoping someone could help me with the exact settings I would need to make this work... I have deck control but am not pulling in any video thanks!

Not sure how the blackmagic will deal with downconverting 1080i to offline RT on the fly. The hardware (blackmagic) and video device (camera/deck) need to be set to the same video format for the incoming signal to be recognized. You can probably manually configure a capture setting to get the blackmagic to see incoming 1080i, and downconvert to offline RT, but an easier way might be to turn on the DV downconvert on your video device, and use a direct firewire connection to capture DV as offline RT, bypassing the blackmagic for now. Later, when you want to remove the unused media nd recapture, you can media manage your sequence all the way up to 1080i and use the blackmagic to recapture at that point.
Make sure your timecode/framerate/TCformat are all correct at each step of the process.
Hope this helps-
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