Re: [Avid-L2] Deck Control with Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini

Actually, let me answer my own question for posterity.

Roger, the Ultrastudio /does/ handle deck control -- which I needed
since Keyspan no longer works with M1 macs.

Our working seats are still old v8.6, running on 2009 Mac Pros. But
since we are planning to upgrade, I went ahead and got a new
subscription so I could get Avid support now. It took a few days of back
and forth, but the upshot, as of Jan 19, 2023, Blackmagic's Ultrastudio
software 12.4 seems to have a bug/issue preventing it from handling deck
control with Avid. We rolled back to 12.3, 12.2, 12.1 and, finally, 12.0
-- which works.

If anyone else has this problem, I hope Google search somehow leads them
to this thread -- but, again as of January 19, 2023, you need
Blackmagic' Desktop Video v12.0 to get deck control with an M1 Mac
running Monterey 12.6.1 with Avid MC 2022.12 and/or 2022.10.

Avid support for the win.

Thanks!

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


On 2023/01/19 0:52, Roger wrote:
> Surely the Ultrastudio only deals with video and audio I/O? Deck control
> is direct independent. I use a Keyspan USB to serial adapter and some
> old serial cables.
>
> On 10/01/2023 06:14, Tim Selander wrote:
>> Upgrading to Mac M1, MC 2022.10 and a Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini
>> for I/O. Using a PDW-F1600 XDCAM deck.
>>
>> Of course video, audio and deck control are flawless with BMD's
>> software (Media Express).
>>
>> Avid sees audio and video -- but sees nothing for the deck. Deck
>> Configuration shows no ports on Direct.
>>
>> Anyone know the secret sauce for getting Avid to play nice with the
>> UltraStudio??
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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