Black Magic Decklink & VP12

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/10/2013, 6:07 PM

I wonder if anyone can confirm before I try the SCS support route to frustration ...

I am about 98% certain that external preview to LCD TV via BMD Decklink has been working for VP12. Now on VP12/486.

Tried it tonight with VP12/486 and it shows that device is not available.

Nothing has changed in the system and VP11/701 sees it just fine proving h/w is not the issue.

Decklink driver is 9.0

Thanks
Tom

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R0cky wrote on 2/11/2013, 2:38 PM

Tom, I have the same problem with BM intensity shuttle and SCS has been unable to reproduce it.

My results:

With BM driver versions 9.x Vegas 12 only works with build 376 and earlier. If you copy the decklink.dll from build 376 to 486 it will work again.

Or go to BM driver version 8.6.1. On my system this made an amazing improvement in Vega's stability. It has been crashing a lot since version 10 and it went away using this driver.

rocky

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/11/2013, 4:03 PM

Thanks for that Rocky. I know it did work with VP12 before. Won't swear to it but I thought it worked with the 394 build.

Not sure if right now it's worth the trouble to get the build 367 .DLL. I'd have to uninstall VP12 etc etc ...

Might be easier to backlevel the BMD driver. Or perhaps VP11-64bit's driver might also work.

Tom

edit: Do you perhaps mean the DecklinkVideoProperties.dll from SONY?

R0cky wrote on 2/12/2013, 12:31 PM

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0\Video Hardware Drivers\DecklinkVideoDevice.dll

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/12/2013, 12:56 PM

Thanks Rocky. Guess I didn't look hard enough! :-(

I wonder if that .DLL from VP11/701 might work.. I'll give it a shot.

Tom

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/17/2013, 10:21 AM

Update: the 64bit .DLL from VP11/701 did the trick.
External preview to LCD TV now works just fine.
Ticket opened with SCS...
Tom

Grazie wrote on 2/17/2013, 11:30 AM

Sounds good Tom!

G

TheRhino wrote on 2/21/2013, 9:26 AM

Has anyone else noticed that in Blackmagic's Decklink & Intensity spec pages they only claim compatibility with Vegas 9? During the last several years they have kept-up with other NLE updates, like CS6, but no mention of Vegas 10, 11, or 12 compatibility... What gives?

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/21/2013, 9:53 AM

You might want to ask that question from Black Magic..
I have had zero problems for what I use BMD for with all the Vegas Pro releases since V9 - until this last issue.
Tom

videoITguy wrote on 2/21/2013, 10:01 AM

You may not agree with it, or particularly like it, but the unstated policy of BlackMagic design and development - if the parties do not get together (i.e., in this case SCS and Blackmagic,) to discuss and work on continued development plans - then the offending party (?SCS) is left off of further recommendations. This is one reason why you see a very totally restricted recommendation hdwre list from BlackMagic.

Vegas 9 was the last true co-mingled development and test cycle for these two players and BlackMagic has no further responsibility to support SCS beyond that era.