Re: [Avid-L2] Decklink Mini Questions

Thank you for the detailed answer, and I guess that makes sense
-- Avid can't 'interface' to two cards at the same time.

Again, not sure why my guy decided to buy two cards for monitor
and record, but we can sell them and just buy the regular
DeckLink product!

Thanks,

Tim Selander

On 2020.07.02 17:24, editbruboy wrote:
> I don't have direct experience of installing two blackmagic cards
> into a workstation, but I suspect this is a limitation of Media
> Composer.
>
> I say this because I have a similar situation with the Mojo DX
> and a Decklink SDI 4K. (the Mojo is attached via a host PCI
> adaptor). If I don't have the Mojo switched on when I boot up,
> it's not recognised by the system (windows 7) and when MC starts,
> it sees the blackmagic card and works fine with that.
>
> If I do have the Mojo powered, then the system sees both it and
> the Decklink card, and if I start MC, it automatically connects
> with the Mojo. There seems to be no way to have MC select the
> Decklink over the Mojo in any of Avid's hardware settings. I
> don't know if MC is choosing the Mojo over the Decklink because
> it's an Avid product, or if there's some some preference due to
> slot position (the Mojo PCI adaptor is in a lower numbered PCI slot).
>
> You could certainly try swopping the slot positions of your cards
> and see if MC now sees the Mini Monitor over the Recorder. Of
> course, this doesn't solve your problem, so the only thing I can
> suggest is trying to make the Mini Recorder 'busy' when you start
> up MC. You could (maybe) do this by using Blackmagic's Media
> Express software in capture mode, and accept a video feed from
> the Mini Recorder, This may make it unavailable to MC, which
> might force it to use the Mini Monitor.
>
> Not a very elegant solution, but if it works, you could possibly
> investigate selectively disabling one of the cards via the device
> driver settings. I don't know how you would do this on a Mac, but
> in Windows 7 device manager, you can select a device and disable
> the driver for it, thus temporarily removing it as an available
> device.
>
> Other than that, maybe this is a feature request you could submit
> to Avid.
>

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