Video engine in 22.5 and 22.6

[reichman]

Originally Posted by gives

How do you like the Aja stuff? I am thinking about upgrading to that.. It seems to be much less problematic than some of the Blackmagic stuff and have heard that the support for some people has not been that great either. Thanks for the T-Tap note. I'll probably at some point get the 4k version, but not urgent at the moment.

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I bought the T-Tap I'm using now for $250 in 2014. It's so tight when measured with a Syncheck, that I haven't upgraded to a model with genlock. What's confusing to me about all of this is that the Avid-approved video interfaces are the Artist series rebranded Blackmagic models. Entry level price for one of those is $1000 (and possibly a big headache with bugs?). I suppose if an AJA video interface performs well both in terms of stability and accuracy, I shouldn't worry about Avid approval.

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by npapaleo

This is precisely why I walked away from Blackmagic. The endless dance of what driver works with what OS and what pro tools version was a constant struggle, with regular crashes. As soon as I switched to AJA, my video has been rock solid using ProRes and DNxHD. I’ve used AJA ioXT, Kona, TTap, and TTap Pro, and they’ve all worked great on 2022.5, M1 Max MacBook Pro (Monterey), and Intel 7,1 Mac Pro Tower (Big Sur).

I'v had zero issues for years. No struggle at all. The problems started after moving to 22.5 and 22.6. I changed nothing else. Only PT version changed from 21.12 to 22.5 and then 22.6.

[gives]

Originally Posted by BScout

Always found the AJA stuff more reliable than Blackmagic. i was in a playback once with a room full of producers where video stopped outputting and we had to halt for hours. Couldn't figure out what happened.
Turned out to be the Blackmagic frame buffer was getting overfilled. Swapped the card to AJA and have, ever since, not gone down the Blackmagic route.

Yeah, Thanks, This confirms what I have been hearing. I was talking to several rooms and also a master instructor at avid and they all swear by the Aja stuff. The instructor seemed to think that there was something that the Blackmagic did not support when he was looking at it a while back and that was a problem for him. He was not sure if it had been updated, but I am totally leaning towards the Aja 4k plus when I do, but not needing it quite yet.

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[gives]

Originally Posted by Frank Kruse

I'v had zero issues for years. No struggle at all. The problems started after moving to 22.5 and 22.6. I changed nothing else. Only PT version changed from 21.12 to 22.5 and then 22.6.

Great Thanks for the feedback also-:)

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[Nico Berthold]

Hi Frank,

no problems here on 2022.6, at least not more problems than in any other version before. Also using a Blackmagic Genlocked to a Rosendahl. If you want me too, I can look up the driver version later.

[Frank Kruse]

Thank you Nico, that would be great!
So weird. All was working fine with 21.12. Almost never saw "unable to stop" errors with BM11.4.1

The **only** thing that changed is the PT version.

F.

[Nico Berthold]

Surprisingly it's pretty old: 11.5, dated Feb.2020

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by Nico Berthold

Surprisingly it's pretty old: 11.5, dated Feb.2020

hm, I stayed away from those as there was a warning from AVID that 11.5 and 11.6 have a drift problem

Support Note from AVID
Black Magic 11.5 & 11.6 had been previously supported, however a sync drift bug has been discovered. Please refer to the chart above for qualified versions.

[Nico Berthold]

Ha ... time to upgrade I guess,
even though never experienced any drift.

[npapaleo]

Originally Posted by Frank Kruse

I'v had zero issues for years. No struggle at all. The problems started after moving to 22.5 and 22.6. I changed nothing else. Only PT version changed from 21.12 to 22.5 and then 22.6.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You change one little thing and the whole system comes to a screeching halt. When I was using Blackmagic cards I would never upgrade my PT version until I knew for sure it was working on my backup system. PT upgrades would constantly break functionality with my BM cards. It was infuriating. Since switching to Aja I've had zero issues.