Output To My Blackmagic Decklink Card

I need to use my Decklink card with my Adobe Premiere Pro in Creative cloud.
How do do set the Playback preferences if I cant see the Blackmagic device in my Preferences window?
Do i need to install this Mercury Transmit or some other drivers?
The Blackmagic device works fine with Adobe After effects. Why is it different with Premiere pro?
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Message was edited by: Jim Simon

for what it's worth, i tried two things... in this order.
#1. (taken from another search)
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6482350
a. clean uninstall of the desktop video 10.0.1
b. install of the desktop video 9.9.3 (at this point transmit doesn't work)
c. installation of the 10.0.1 over the 9.9.3 (with no clean uninstall)
this may or may not have helped the situation...
#2. it appears (also mentioned - er "argued" - in other threads) that this situation doesnt like "non-standard" frame rates. simply changing my AE composition from 23.98 to 23.976 immediately fixed the problem.

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