Setting Up a Blackmagic Design Project
1
Open Premiere Pro and click on 'new project'. Type in a name for the project and select
a storage location for it.
2
If your graphics card is supported by Premiere Pro CC's Mercury Playback Engine,
the renderer option will be available and you should switch it to Mercury Playback
Engine GPU acceleration.
3
In the 'capture format' drop down menu, select 'Blackmagic capture'. Click the
'settings' [mac] or 'properties' [windows] button to set the video and audio capture
settings. Select the video standard and video format. Click 'ok' to return to
the 'new project' window.
4
Click on the 'scratch disks' tab to set the locations for your captured video, captured
audio, video and audio previews. Click 'ok' and your new project will open.
5
Now check your default system audio is not set to Blackmagic Desktop Video.
On Mac OS, open 'system preferences', click on the 'sound' option and in the output
tab, make sure your Blackmagic device is not selected. In the input tab, select your
microphone input, making sure your Blackmagic product is not selected.
On Windows, go to the task bar and right click on the audio 'speaker' icon to open
the sound settings. Click on the 'playback' tab and set your PC to use the on board
sound hardware or a sound output device other than your Blackmagic Design
hardware. Click on the 'recording' tab and set the computer to use a recording device
other than your Blackmagic Design hardware.
6
Back in Adobe Premiere Pro, click on the 'preferences' menu and select 'audio
hardware'. Set your 'default output' to 'built-in output' using the dropdown menu. Under
'output mapping', map output for 'Adobe desktop audio'.
When setting up Adobe Premiere Pro's audio hardware
preferences, make sure the default audio output and
output mapping settings are set to 'built-in output'.
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