No Broadcast Monitoring with Decklink Studio 2

FCPX 10.0.3 and Decklink Studio 2
Anyone had luck getting an external output with a Decklink Studio?

It took me a while to figure that out but assuming you have Blackmagic Driver 9.2 Beta installed it works like that:
Quit FCPX and go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES > BLACKMAGIC DESIGN
In the fist section of the dialogue-box there is a setting called "SET DEFAULT VIDEO STANDARD."
This setting has to be set to what your timeline or whatever it's called in FCPX is set to. In my case it was set to NTSC, so my 1920x1080 25p project was outputted as NTSC vie the Decklink card. Hence I saw just black on my CRT and my plasma said 480i.
Within FCPX's A/V Output settings you can not choose anything other that what the BM system preferences are set to. Those two drop-down-menu-style arrows are misleading. Maybe in the future we will be able to switch resolutions within FCPX.
As soon as I set "HD 1080 25p" in the BM sys prefs, I had "Blackmagic 1920 x1080 @ 25" in FCPX's settings and everything worked, except the audio.
If I output system audio via the BM card can I be sure it's perfectly sych with the video? On FCP7, Premiere and Media Composer its if I output anything via the BM card, audio goes with it as well, but system audio still comes out at the mac's output.

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So I just rec'd my new Matrox MX02 LE Max and connected it - installed drivers off website tried to connect my SD broadcast monitor (via S video cable) and it appears that I'm getting no signal. FCP is not finding it when i connect. Am I doing something wrong?
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Hi -
After you installed the Matrox software, did you restart your computer?
Make sure you are connected via the host cable form the PCIe card and your Mac Pro. Is the LE pluged into AC and powered on? There is a small button on the back of the LE next to where the host cable plugs in. Press it and see if the blue LED is visible on the front of the LE.
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External Monitoring with Decklink

First of all: CS 6 really is an epic improvement! It feels almost like a fcp 8. Almost... (system: Mac OSx 10.7.3, prp CS 6.0.1, deckllnk studio pro, 9.5.2)
There some bugs, I think, that make life not sunny all the way through.
1. External monitoring is only possible in stereo settings! That sounds too funny, but we've tried everything. Set the timeline to multichannel audio and you lose your external monitoring. Bug?!
2. Another bug with the Blackmagic decking studio pro. If you use xdcam HD 422 in 1080i50 you get horrible (when paning) playback on your external monitors as if the footage was shot in 25p, not interlaced !
Are there any workarounds you know of?
3. Exporting e.g. 4 mono audio tracks is limited to XML-Files. Why's that?

MXF-Files not XML;-)

Using an external monitor with FCP Studio v. 1.0

I cannot get my external monitor to display my timeline editing window. I have made the right connections, with firewire from Mac to Sony HDV tapedeck, and with HDMI cable from tapedeck to LCD monitor, but the screen remains blank. The external video setting and the video playback setting both have the HDV 1080i options greyed out, so I can't click on them. I can only have 'none', or playback in full screen desktop. How can I activate the play out via the tapedeck to the monitor?

Nickmarios wrote:
However, if HDV cannot be played out of FCP via firewire, how come I can capture from tape and export back to tape with firewire successfully?
Part of the issue is the Open GOP nature of HDV. Basically, HDV spreads the information for all frames within the time that you've pressed record to the time that you've stopped recording, and then crunches that down. This is way different than other FireWire-supported codecs, like DV, where each frame contains all the information needed by FCP to send a signal out to an external monitor at full resolution.
Sending out a full resolution via FireWire during HDV editing - where, most importantly, you're not obeying the GOP structure - would require fairly intense system resources, since it must reference other frames (sometimes many other frames). That's why you need a dedicated accelerator, like a capture card, to do that and send out a signal. As mentioned, FCP can send out a (very degraded) letterboxed 4:3 signal via FireWire, but it can't send out a full resolution signal.
Capturing, however, is a data transfer and much easier on your system. Open GOP is also the reason that long captures get broken up into individual shots (every time you start/stop recording).
Finally, as Shane mentions, the conform that FCP does prior to Print to Video means that FCP converts your timeline to abide by the (Open GOP) structure of HDV. As you've witnessed, that takes a fair amount of time.

Monitoring 2k footage via SDI, Premiere CC, Decklink Studio

Hello all,
System specs:
MacPro 4,1 2.26Ghz 8 core, 32 GB RAM, OSX 10.8.4
Adobe CC
Resolve 9.1.5
FSI LM-2461W
BM Decklink Studio 2
BM Desktop Video 9.7.7
After searching the forums, I'm here seeking the collective wisdom of the Adobe CC user base.
I'm working in a 2048x854 timeline and I'd like to be able to monitor the timeline in Premiere on my external monitor with a Decklink Studio via SDI. No flavor of 2K sequence preset seems to work. If I take my 2048x854 timeline and nest it in a 1920x1080 timeline, boom, the image shows up and plays back on my external monitor.
Both Resolve and After Effects are capable of sending a signal to my monitor that will play back, while still working in 2048x854 timelines and comps.
Thoughts? Workarounds? Both AE and Resolve work, which makes me think this is a Premiere thing, like it isn't capable of downsampling to 1080, but I could be wrong.
Thanks for your time.

Yep, that's what I figured. Kinda lame, considering the other two thirds of my post workflow, After Effects and Resolve, seem to handle this without a hitch.
Should have spent the extra $300 for the Decklink 4K, although I have a feeling I would still be in a similar situation, given that my monitor supports 2048x1080 and I'm working at 2048x854, not to mention that it leaves me high and dry if I need to work with 4k in Premiere.
The workaround would be to work in a 2048x1080 timeline, but since we're working with different flavors of resolution, 1080 Phantom and 2K, 4K and 5K Epic footage with all different kinds of resizing, reframing and cropping, I would need a 2.40 matte over the edit/finish timeline to have some sense of the actual framing and then either nesting the sequence in a 2048x854 sequence or copy and pasting the final piece from the 2048x1080 timeline to the 2048x854 timeline. Neither of these options is very appealing to me when I could just be working natively in 2048x854 and skip all of this, like I am with AE and Resolve.
I'm liking most of what Premiere is offering, but there are some details that make me think the people engineering this software don't actually use it. Like needing to have the Program monitor in focus for the "create still" key command to work or some key commands that should always work, regardless of what window is in focus, like toggling targeting. For some inexplicable reason, the "Show in Finder" command does not work in the timeline. It works in the project tab and "Show in Project" works in the timeline.
Anyway, off to the Adobe feature request/bug report site, which incidentally crashed my browser and lost my request the last time I tried to submit one.
Good times.

DeckLink HD Pro Broadcast Monitor Output

Hi there
I'm new to the forum, but not new in shake. But I recently switched job, and my new job got me a Mac Pro with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, and a DeckLink HD Pro card.
Here is the problem:
My broadcast monitor (TVlogic LVM-240W) works fine in FCP. But i can't get any output from shake. I haven't been able to find any help to this problem anywhere, a lot about the Aya cards, but nothing about Blackmagic. Anyone got any ideas what to do with my problem?
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Welcome to the discussions...
AFAIK, the only way to get video output from Shake and the Decklink card is to turn on Decklink Desktop, then point Shake at the resultant new "desktop".
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FMLE won't let me set the sample rate with Blackmagic Decklink Studio 2 (Windows)

Hi,
I am trying to set the audio device on FMLE to the Decklink Studio 2's audio inputs. However,
the sample rate sticks to 44.1k and I can't change it to the 48kHz sample rate that
the Decklink defaults to (standard for broadcast is 48k).
Try as I may, it isn't changeable. I seem to remember a similar problem where the
sample rate defaults to the system audio card (on the motherboard) which is at
44.1.
Any ideas on a work-around? The audio from the Decklink is *much* better than
the built in card.....
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jeff

One thing you might try doing is trashing the preference file in your user directory:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.compressor.Compressor.plist
Like repairing permissions, this is a bit of a "catch-all" fix, not something specific to this particular problem.
Also, have you tried different file types like: TIFF or JPEG, there could be an issue with output from Fireworks. You could use QT Pro to transcode the file. Sometimes that can work to fix funky problems.
Does the Text Overlay filter work?
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Does Flash Media Live Encoder work with all the blackmagic-Design Decklink Studio?

Does Flash Media Live Encoder work with all the Blackmagic-Design Decklink Studio?

Well, I have my XH A1 Canon video camera hooked up to Shuttle Thundbolt as composite and the thunderbolt to my Macbook Pro (Late 2011 - 2.4GHz, i7, 16GB Ram) and FLM 3.2 does not see my camera.
When I hook my same camera up to my Windows i7, 2.8Ghz, 8GB Ram using my "Hauppauge capture card" as composite it can see my camera.
I'm going to try a simple VHS tape deck and see if my macbook pro can see it using the Shuttle Thunderbolt. I'm going to guess and say it won't.
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Broadcast monitor not displaying picture with Blackmagic Extreme

I'm using FCP X 10.0.5 and the latest driver for my Blackmagic Extreme card. I've been able to view my video on my broadcast monitor before, but lately it's just not showing any picture and I can't think of what's changed in my setup.
I've tried changing the picture settings in the Blackmagic preferences (in System Preferences) and restarting FCP X, but still can't get a picture to display on the screen.
It works with Adobe AE and Premiere Pro, so it's not that there's no signal going to the display. Just seems that FCP won't send the picture over.
Any suggestions as to what I can do to get picture to show up?
Thanks.

I can't remember right now, I am not at home, but I remember a pref setting for video out to be set to dv with the view all option. refresh the devices before choosing view all.
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DVI to Video adapter CRT Broadcast Monitor? Is there a better option?

I am a freelance motion graphics artist, and I use Final Cut Studio, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.
I need a CRT monitoring solution for checking my color grades, etc.
SD resolution is fine, and i've got my eye on a JVC TMH-150CGU broadcast monitor from B&H. It has an S-Video (Y/C) input.
I'm thinking of using the Apple DVI Video Adapter hook up to it via S-Video.
I have a Pantone Eye-One that I can use to calibrate the monitor.
Would this setup work ok in the above applications? Will it support Digital Cinema Desktop Preview in Final Cut?
I have the 30" Apple display. Will connecting the CRT via DVI steal 256mb of my video memory???? That seems drastic considering it's already driving a 30" display AND running after effects!!
I've thought about FireWire monitoring, but I suspect the FireWire/DV 4:1:1 compression will affect the colors.
I know a CAPTURE CARD would be ideal, with SDI, etc... but I don't really have a need for a full blown capture card at the moment. I don't think use it to it's full potential (ie- to capture). It seems silly spending $$$$ just for a monitoring solution.
Or is a capture card my only option for pro monitoring? If I was to buy one, i'd want a future proof one should I digitize in the future (ie, HD, with analog support), so that leaves either a Blackmagic Intensity Pro (which I believe is only 8 bit) or a BlackMagic Decklink HD Extreme. And then i'd also need the SDI or Component expansion card for the JVC monitor, and before I know it, i've spent over $1000, just for a decent monitoring solution. Ouch.
I strongly considered the Intensity Pro card, because I could monitor SD component, and HDMI HD from the same card. But it put me off when I heard it ws only 8 bit. But it is 4:2:2 though.
What might KILL the Apple DVI adapter option is I have a TON of PAL footage, and I heard the adapter is NTSC only (or a seperate PAL version). So even though the monitor supports both standards, the adapter doesn't. Or so I've heard.
Very confused. Any other options or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Hi,
From the sound of things you have answered your own question.
If you wanted a CRT to just check video playback, safe areas and text legibility then a cheap option of monitoring via a deck or camera would suffice.
You mention a lot of PAL footage just as a FYI this would be 4:2:0 as opposed to 4:1:1 with NTSC under the DV codec.
You don't mention (and I'm sorry if I missed it) what codec you output to. I had always found when working with DV only that a DV monitoring solution was sufficient for most applications.
However as you indicate that colour plays a factor in the equation bite the bullet and get a decent monitoring system from the off. I am using the Decklink Extreme and have found it to be excellent especially in real time conversion and monitoring of HD to SD.
In addition you get the ability to work all the way up to 10bit (drives allowing) and capture over SDI with full deck control.
You could stagger the cost since the BM card will let you monitor composite out in addition to component so the expansion board for the CRT might not be a must have from the get go for you.
Whatever route you go you will want to calibrate the CRT using broadcast colour bars rather than a Pantone system, theres plenty of info on the web regarding this . . and why.
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Problem with Decklink card during voice over

Hi,
i have PMG5 2.5 GHz with FCS & Blackmagic Decklink extreme card.
all these days i had a great time working on FCP . till i faced a peculiar problem
when i am capturing video from Beta or DV 50 , i am able to select video Only or Audio only , or Video & Audio .
but when iam trying to capture Audio Only option through the the Mic which is connected to the mixer, i am not able to capture audio.
even i have noticed one more strange thing, i have tried Voice Over tool in FCP 5.04 with Decklinik card and i am not able to grab any audio through the Decklink card.
but i can use built in audio for my voiceover.
has anybody come across this kind of problem,
can somebody help me .

Hi Rajendra,
your questions is marked as solved, but I haven't seen your question answered, so I might be wasting time. Anyway.
I bumped into the same problem not long ago. I'm using a Multibridge, but the problem and solution are the same. Here's the reply I got from Kristian Lam over at Blackmagic:
In order to get vo tool in Final Cut Pro HD to work, these are the
steps to follow:
1) Video Input in Blackmagic DeckLink preferences is set to match the audio input type. For example, if you're recording via the XLR connectors of your card, then then 'Inputs' under 'DeckLink Video Connections' must set to analog. It doesn't matter if it's component or composite analog video.
2) In the View menu of Final Cut Pro HD, set External Video to “Off”. When finished with the Voice Over tool, set External Video to “All Frames” to use the broadcast monitor.
3) You must have a stable video signal going into the card when using the vo tool or Final Cut Pro HD will not see the audio. (or use a Blackburst generator)
4) Use the Displays menu to set the DeckLink desktop to the same format as the video source, eg. NTSC 720 x 486.
Well, then select your Decklink Card in the Voiceover Input selection. Even after I had done all that, I couldn't see any audio coming into FCP. The solution to that was to raise the Trim at the top of the mixer. I got a nice signal into the Mackie and voilà also sound into FCP.
Hope this helps,
Colin

Using Mac as a broadcast monitor

I have a unibody macbook pro and am wanting to use it as a broadcast monitor for field production, we are using a panasonic p200 and wanting to know what is the best way to play back with minimum or no lag, i have final cut studio and also adobe on-location cs4, what other methods also is their to get best results, all the est and thanx

have a unibody macbook pro and am wanting to use it as a broadcast monitor for field production..........to get best results
do you want a broadcast monitor, a field monitor or a computer monitor, do want best or poor results, they are all different solutions?
what other methods also is their:
watch a picture on a laptop-dozens of software apps available
1 Quicktime Pro:
2 http://www.boinx.com/boinxtv/overview/
is this a professional best way? NO
what is the best way to play back with minimum or no lag,
you need either a broadcast monitor or a more affordable field monitor, not a computer screen from a laptop
9" LCD
http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/viewitem_cat.php?catalogue_number=sonylmd-9050
17" CRT
http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/viewitem_cat.php?catalogue_number=jvctm-h150cg
Broadcast field monitor:
http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/viewitem_cat.php?catalogue_number=panabt-lh1760we#

Monitoring with Blackmagic hardware

I use a Blackmagic Decklink SDI in Adobe Premiere, but it doesn't show up in Encore, even though the video output preferences window looks very similiar. How do you preview on a broadcast monitor?

According to this Adobe blog, Blackmagic hardware is supposed to work with Mercury Transmit in most Adobe apps, including Encore.
http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2012/04/intro-to-premiere-pro-prelude-and-encore-cs6-m ercury-transmit-io.html
Not working for me. I've tried reinstalling Desktop Video.

BM Decklink Studio or Matrox MXO2 Mini?

Hi!
Wondering which option is better for I/O and external monitoring in Premiere CS6?
BM Decklink Studio or Matrox MXO2 Mini?
I need analog I/O + connect CRT and LCD monitors

Blackmagic Design has a much wider range of products, supported I/O types and resolutions. E.g. if you ever need 4K support, just swap the Studio card for the 4K Extreme, and you're all set.
That said, I prefer external breakout boxes like the MXO2 series or BMD UltraStudio series, rather than the Octopus type breakout cables that come with the Studio cards.

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