Tuesday, May 22, 2012

[Avid-L2] Bizarre video card identity crisis

 

I posted a while back that my Media Composer (on Mac) was displaying black as VIVID GREEN. But when I launched Resolve, it actually solved the problem.

The bizarre thing is that I have an AJA Kona 3 card in my Mac. At one point (because I had Resolve) I HAD a Blackmagic card in there, but I took it out.

My Avid is still working fine with it, as is my FCP system, but the crazy thing is that my AJA TV and AJA Settings claims that there's no AJA card in the system. BUT my Blackmagic Media Player sees it and uses it perfectly. To cap it all off, Resolve (a BlackMagic product now, that's only supposed to work with BMD cards) also works flawlessly with the AJA card.

SO, the AJA software thinks the card is a Blackmagic card and the Blackmagic software thinks the AJA card is a Blackmagic card. If I could figure out how I did this, I could probably make a nice buck on the recipe for jailbreaking an AJA card for use with Resolve.

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
co-author: "Color Correction for Video: revised edition," "Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop" and "Avid XpressDV On the Spot"
presenter: Class On Demand's "Complete Training for Avid Media Composer" AND "Complete Training for Apple Color"
www.classondemand.net/media/final-cut-training/color01.aspx

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