Blackmagicdesign DeckLink Series Operation & User’s Manual

Mac OS X™ Getting Connected: Display Settings 1. After completing the software and hardware installation, connect your DeckLink card to an external device such as a broadcast monitor, tape deck or Blackmagic HDLink. Connection diagrams, for the DeckLink family of cards, can be found towards the end of this manual from page 21 onwards. 2. Go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. Click on the Displays icon. Ensure that “Show displays in menu bar” is enabled. If you are using Mac OS X™ 10.2.x, ensure that “Sho ...

Mac OS X™ 7. To check the installation has been successful, go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. Click on the Displays icon and then on the Arrangement tab. You should see an extra display which represents the extended desktop feature of your DeckLink card. The size of the DeckLink display will appear different to your computer display and may be a NTSC or HDTV resolution. 8. Select where sound is routed when playing and capturing QuickTime™ movies. To do so, go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. ...

Mac OS X™ Blackmagic Design Limited Warranty Blackmagic Design warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase. If a product proves to be defective during this warranty period, Blackmagic Design, at its option, either will repair the defective product without charge for parts and labor, or will provide a replacement in exchange for the defective product. In order to obtain service under this warranty, you the Customer, must notify Blackmagic Desi ...

Mac OS X™ 22 Batch Capture Select the clips you wish to capture by marque or shift-click. Go to the File menu and choose Batch Capture or click on the Batch button in the Logging tab of the Log & Capture window. Shortcut: ^C (i.e. Control C) To set handles on the clips, go to the File menu and choose Batch Capture (^C). Enable the “Add Handles” box to capture additional frames (“handles”) before and after the In and Out points of a clip. RT Extreme™ (real time effects) RT Effects are one of the great features of Final Cut ...

Mac OS X™ 21 Playback As a quick test to make sure everything is connected correctly, use the Blackmagic test media (bars and tone) which can be found on the installer CD. Find a test clip which matches the format of your project, eg NTSC 8 bit, and copy it to your disk array. Import this clip into your Final Cut Pro HD™ project and drop it into the timeline. You should now see the image on both your computer desktop and your DeckLink output. If you can’t see any video on your DeckLink output, check the connections again and e ...

Mac OS X™ Connection Diagrams DeckLink HD Pro™ (Single Link card) HD/SD-SDI 4:2:2 video, audio capture and playback card with analog monitoring When you don’t have genlock, you can output stable black so DeckLink HD Pro locks the deck. This output is always stable and allows the deck to be set to input reference or auto reference. Be sure to set the “Black Video Output to Deck in Capture” option to “On Digital SDI Outputs” in the DeckLink control panel, when using this feature. Wordclock Output AES-S/PDIF Output AES-S/P ...

Mac OS X™ Blackmagic Design Limited Warranty Blackmagic Design warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase. If a product proves to be defective during this warranty period, Blackmagic Design, at its option, either will repair the defective product without charge for parts and labor, or will provide a replacement in exchange for the defective product. In order to obtain service under this warranty, you the Customer, must notify Blackmagic Desi ...

Mac OS X™ 22 Batch Capture Select the clips you wish to capture by marque or shift-click. Go to the File menu and choose Batch Capture or click on the Batch button in the Logging tab of the Log & Capture window. Shortcut: ^C (i.e. Control C) To set handles on the clips, go to the File menu and choose Batch Capture (^C). Enable the “Add Handles” box to capture additional frames (“handles”) before and after the In and Out points of a clip. RT Extreme™ (real time effects) RT Effects are one of the great features of Final Cut ...