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 Audio will play through the speakers out of ProTools but must follow these steps

 



Unplug the thunderbolt cable to Black Magic Design Thunderbolt Shuttle

 


RESTART THE COMPUTER

 Plug in the thunderbolt cable

Blackmagic Shuttle is connected via the Thunderbolt cable to the computer.

Make sure the Headphones are plugged into headphone jack on

IMac

Mac Pro

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Use the TV Remote>

 


Turn on the Monitor and make sure you select the HDMI input

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Or the suites that have the Sonys' use the power button and make sure it's set to A-1 Input.

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Make sure the Green cable is plugged

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Go to the >

System Prefs>Sound>Output tab

Choose the LIne Out

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the Aux input on the PreSonus.

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Select the Aux Input and

Turn up the volume.


Make sure Speaker A is also lit up

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This Aux Input will also boost audio

Make sure that the Aux button is not pushed in CUZ that'll make the audio not work

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Go to >Apple>System Prefs
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System Prefs>Blackmagic Desktop Video and click on it
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Make sure you see the Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt
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or the AVID Artist DNxIO or the Ultrastudio 4K Extreme

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Launch ProTools

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Click OK Here

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Click OK Here

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When ProTools opens click "Cancel" on the Quick Start Dialog. We do not want to open a session yet.


Need to set up the routing and Playback Engine first.

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Go To Setup > Playback Engine

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On the Playback Engine Drop Down choose

Built-in Output

Blackmagic UltraStudio or Thunderbolt. . .

Change the HW Buffer to 1024 Samples



Click OK

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Now go to Input and Output setup

Go to >Setup>I/O

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Click "Defautl" on the I/O setup



Then Click OK

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Now that the routing and hardware is set up open the ProTools session if you have one created already or make a new session.

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Navigate to the session and open it or create a new session

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To create a new Protools session

Type - Session

Name - (session name)

File Type - .WAV

Bit Depth: - 24 bit

Sample Rate: - 48kHz

I/O last used

 


Location - set to your hard drive NOT THE DESKTOP!!!!

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Next Import the video into the project

Choose Import Video

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Navigate to the video file that you want to view in the ProTools session

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Choose to import at Session Start

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Choose to enable the Video Engine

Click Yes here

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If you would like to use the audio off the video file choose to save it to the default Audio Drive folder

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Last step is to open up the Input and Output view in ProTools

Go to > View>Edit Window Views> I/O >

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Choose the format 1080 or 720 23.98fps

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Choose the Playback Quality - Note if there is stuttering choose Draft but Full should work

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Choose the video resolution of the file from the choices.  Probably best to choose a 1920x1080 that is the most common

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Make sure all the audio outputs are routed to the Built In Line Output 1-2 Stereo Mac Pros or Out 1-2 Stereo Built In Output 1-2 IMacs

Then you should see image on the TV and hear audio the speakers

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If you do not see image on the

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Externa Monitors redo the entire rebooting process again and make sure you unplug the thunderbolt cable and power cycle the Black Magic Intensity.  It should fix it.