This software includes everything you need to set up your DeckLink card for any task in your facility. This software supports all models of DeckLink video capture cards.
If using a Mac Pro, it is recommended to use PCIe slot 4 for DeckLink capture cards.
The drivers install components in to applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. If you have installed the drivers prior to installing any of these applications, we recommend that you uninstall and reinstall the drivers. This will ensure that all relevant components are installed in their required locations.
To remove the Blackmagic software out of your system, simply run the "Uninstall Multibridge" utility which is included on the CD or disk image.
If you have a DeckLink card, plug your card in before running the installer. When you restart after plugging in your DeckLink card, Windows may show the Found New Hardware wizard for a Multimedia Device Controller, cancel this wizard. Running the installer without a DeckLink card plugged in installs the Blackmagic codecs so that you can share video files with DeckLink users.
If you had a previous version of the DeckLink software installed, use the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel for Windows XP or use Programs and Features control panel in Windows Vista and Windows 7 to remove it before installing this version, and restart.
Double click the DeckLink installer and follow the instructions that appear. See the DeckLink User Manual for more detailed instructions.
During the installation process, Windows might show three warning messages saying the driver has not been certified by Microsoft. In this case, select "Continue Anyway" so you complete installation of the software correctly.
For uncompressed capture and playback a RAID or other fast storage is needed. It is also recommended to use a filesystem that is optimized for large sequential I/O such as XFS.
Some applications use the QT UI framework (http://qt.digia.com, http://qt-project.org) under the terms of the LGPL version 2.1. The QT dynamic libraries, built from unmodified source are included in the application bundle. A copy of the LGPL is included in the Blackmagic application support directory. The support note at http://www.blackmagicdesign/support provides further details including how to obtain the QT source.
This release has been tested on:
Several different package formats are supplied:
The driver package requires some additional libraries and packages including:
All packages above are included in most modern distributions. Consult your distributions documentation for more information. If your distribution doesn't include DKMS you can download it from http://linux.dell.com/dkms/.
NOTE: Fedora users may have to add the "updates" repo to find DKMS (link).
NOTE: OpenSUSE users may have to add the isv:dell repo or download DKMS manually.
Installation from Graphical User Interface
Locate and double click the downloaded Debian (end with .deb) package. Once the Package Installer window appears click "Install Package".
You need to reboot your system in order to activate the driver.
Installation from Command Line
Locate the downloaded driver Package. At the command prompt type:
# dpkg -i <name_of_driver_package.deb>
If there are messages about missing dependencies ensure that install those first.
You can type:
# modprobe blackmagic
to load the driver once the package is installed.
Installation from Graphical User Interface
Locate and double click the downloaded RPM package (end with .rpm) package. In the "Install" dialog window, click Install. You may be required to enter your root password to continue. Since the package is not digitally signed you may get a warning about a "Missing Security Signature".
You need to reboot your system in order to activate the driver.
Installation from Command Line
Locate the downloaded driver Package. At the command prompt type:
# sudo yum install --nogpgcheck <name_of_driver_package>.rpm
Once finished you can type:
# modprobe blackmagic
to load the driver once the package is installed.
Installation from Graphical User Interface
Locate and double click the downloaded RPM package (end with .rpm) package. In the "Install" dialog window, click Install. You may be required to enter your root password to continue. Since the package is not digitally signed you may get a warning about a "Missing Security Signature".
You need to reboot your system in order to activate the driver.
Installation from Command Line
Locate the downloaded driver Package. At the command prompt type:
# sudo zypper in <name_of_driver_package>.rpm
Once finished you can type:
# modprobe blackmagic
to load the driver once the package is installed.
No native package exist to support these distributions at the time of writing. It's however possible to install the driver manually by downloading the tar.gz archive.
Before you begin, ensure that your system satisfies external dependencies listed in section 2.
Once the archive is extracted follow these steps:
# sudo cp -R <extract_dir>/usr/src/DeckLink-7.9.4/ /usr/src # sudo cp <extract_dir>/usr/bin/* /usr/bin # sudo cp <extract_dir>/etc/init.d/* /etc/init.d # sudo cp <extract_dir>/etc/udev/rules.d/* /etc/udev/rules.d/ # sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/blackmagic # sudo cp <extract_dir>/usr/lib/blackmagic* /usr/lib/blackmagic # sudo cp <extract_dir>/etc/xdg/autostart/* /etc/xdg/autostart/ # sudo ldconfig
There are two ways of installing the driver onto your system, manually or via DKMS. By using DKMS the driver will be automatically be updated for you when you upgrade to a new kernel. If your distribution doesn't include the 'dkms' package, you can obtain it free from the following website.
In either case ensure that you have the kernel header files installed for your current kernel. Check for the directory /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.
For installing the driver using DKMS do:
# dkms add -m DeckLink -v 7.9.4 # dkms build -m DeckLink -v 7.9.4 # dkms install -m DeckLink -v 7.9.4
To activate driver once installed:
# modprobe blackmagic
Or installing the driver manually:
# cd /usr/src/DeckLink-7.9.4 # make
If there are any compilation errors, please check that you are running a Linux 2.6 kernel with version 2.6.23 or higher. If you still have problems please contact us.
# sudo cp blackmagic.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers # sudo depmod -a
Reboot your system or:
# sudo modprobe blackmagic
To active the driver once installed.
You can check that your computer find your device by entering the following from a terminal:
# lspci | grep Blackmagic 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Blackmagic Design Device a11b
You should see entries like the above if the device was recognized by the system.
To test if the driver is loaded properly, type:
# lsmod | grep blackmagic blackmagic 2082944 1
If you get no output, that means that the driver is not loaded.
Also check that the device file: /dev/blackmagic/card0 is present. If it is not, and the driver appears to be loaded, the UDEV rule (/etc/udev/rules.d/20-blackmagic.rules) may not be installed properly.
Make sure the installed driver's firmware version matches that of your cards firmware. See section 3.3 for details.
Installation from Graphical User Interface
If the Driver package was installed correctly, the firmware update utility should popup automatically when a card needs its firmware updated.
If not see section 3.3.2 on how to update manually.
Installation from Command Line
First check if your card really needs updating by issuing the following command from the terminal:
# BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater status /dev/blackmagic/card0 [DeckLink HD Extreme 3] UPDATED /dev/blackmagic/card1 [DeckLink HD Extreme 3] NEEDS_UPDATE
Cards listed with NEEDS_UPDATE can be upgraded by typing:
# BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater update <card_id> (1 in this case)
Or if runnning under an X window enviroment simply type:
# BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater update_gui
Which will launch the GUI firmware update tool.
Look for kernel output messages in dmesg and /var/log/messages.
This is by design to demonstrate audio/video sync.
Try the following command:
# dkms build -m DeckLink -v 7.9.4
This should allow you to determine what the problem is. A common cause is a version mismatch between the installed kernel image, and the kernel source/headers. If they do not match, simply bring either the source/headers or the image update to date, and reboot your system.
Once the system is back up, the driver should be built for you at startup.
Multiple cards may not work very well on 32 bit platforms, due to limited amount of kernel space memory (from the vmalloc).
Possible solutions:
Reconfigure kernel to allow more vmalloc memory, or use 64 bit Linux if possible.
Some versions of the linux-rt patchset may be incompatible with the driver.
Some PCI-e cards (1x lane cards) does not function properly by default under Fedora Core 12, including DeckLink SDI and Intensity Pro. To work around this please add kernel boot paramter "pcie_aspm=off" to your bootloader (for GRUB in /boot/grub/menu.lst).
Due to licensing of some symbols in the 2.6.16 kernel, the DeckLink serial device is not available. The serial functionality of the DeckLink devices is accessible through the DeckLinkDeckControl interface in the API.
To start the driver at boot on SLES10 or later, the line "blacklist blackmagic" must be removed from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.unsupported
The 2.6.36 kernel has some interface changes that breaks the DeckLink driver, it will be supported in a later release.
Please check http://www.blackmagicdesign/support for additional information on third party software compatibility and minimum system requirements.
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Some applications use the QT UI framework (http://qt.digia.com, http://qt-project.org) under the terms of the LGPL version 2.1. The QT dynamic libraries, built from unmodified source are included in the application bundle. A copy of the LGPL is included in the Blackmagic application support directory. The support note at http://www.blackmagicdesign/support provides further details including how to obtain the QT source.
Updated December 21, 2010.