Digital Voodoo release new beta installers for

FCP4 running on G5's or under Panther

Digital Voodoo have announced the availability of a new beta installer for Digital Voodoo standard definition (SD) cards that enables the cards to be used with FCP4 running on G5's or under Panther (OSX.3.2).

Following the announcement at IBC that Digital Voodoo were suspending development, they have continued to work on their drivers in order to meet the needs of their OEM customers.  The good news is that as a result of this work they are now able to offer end users more than originally promised at IBC, i.e. support for Panther and G5's.

Two versions of the new 7.1b1 installer are available, one supporting just the D1 64 RT card which will update the cards firmware as part of the installation.  The other being for all other SD cards which cannot have their firmware updated by software.

Those customers who do not have Final Cut Pro 4, i.e. customers with Combustion, After Effects or Premier, will also need to download and install the Digital Voodoo 7.1b1 Codec Installer which contains the Apple 4:2:2 Uncompressed Codec Installer that is usually installed by Final Cut Pro 4.

These new installers feature;

  • Support for Panther running on G4 and G5 machines

  • Support for G5 Dual 2GHz machines running Panther

  • Non-RealTime preview during capture

  • Support for NTSC and PAL.

  • Support for 8 bit video.

  • Support for 10 bit video.

  • Support for video and audio capture (8 bit and 10 bit NTSC and PAL)

  • Support for Apple Uncompressed 4:2:2 8 and 10 bit QuickTime formats

  • Support for 6 channel playback of AES/EBU digital audio (6 channel cable required.)

  • 64 bit RGB support for Adobe After Effects 6.0

  • QuickTime video output support for Adobe After Effects

  • User presets for Final Cut Pro 4.1

  • Mirroring on desktop for Final Cut Pro 4.1

  • Voodoo feature control application for safe picture, safe title (letterbox on supported cards)

  • Driver support for key channel available on supported hardware

  • Adobe After Effects RAM RealTime RAM preview

  • RealTime playback within Apple Movie Player

Full release notes and downloads are available from www.digitalvoodoo.net/support/downloads/.

For details of supported hardware configurations refer to www.digitalvoodoo.net/support/systemconfiguration/. 

Please send beta installer feedback to beta@digitalvoodoo.net

FAQ's

1. Do we support Panther (OS 10.3.2) with these releases? Yes

2. Do we support G5 hardware with these releases? Yes only G5 Dual 2GHz running Panther have been qualified. (Our installers still also support G4 hardware.)

Please refer to the following URL for details of supported hardware, http://www.digitalvoodoo.net/support/systemconfiguration/

3. Do we support QuickTime 6.5? Yes, the 7.1b1 installers only support QuickTime 6.5.

4. Do these installers support offline? No

5. Do these installers support real time effects? No

6. I have FCP3 which installer should I use?

FCP3 owners with a D1 64 RT card should use installer 6.1b4 FCP3 owners with a D1 64 AV card fitted with V107 firmware should use installer 6.1b3 (non D1 64 RT) if they wish to make use of real time effects.

FCP3 owners with other standard def cards or D1 64 AV owners not wishing to use real time effects or not having V107 firmware should use installer 6.0.1FC6.

7. I have FCP4 which installer should I use?

FCP4 owners with D1 64 RT running OSX.3.2 should use installer 7.1b1.

FCP4 owners with other standard def cards should use 7.1b1, but this is an unsupported installer.

FCP4 owners with D1 64 RT running OSX.2.8 should use installer 7.0.1.

FCP4 owners with other standard def cards running OSX.2.8 should use 7.0.1b1, but this is an unsupported installer.

8. Do these installers support HD cards? No, you should still use HD Fury installer 2.0.2.

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