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

Good to know. Thanks.

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With Best Wishes
Roger Shufflebottom
rogershuff@fastmail.fm
+44 7973 543660

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, at 12:20 AM, Tim Selander wrote:
> 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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