Bluefish444 SD Fidelity, User Manual

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Driver Installation
Driver installation is very much straight forward.
At this point you should have a Bluefish444 card installed in the relevant slot, in a system that meets the requirements as
outline in the previous sections.
You should also have QuickTime and relevant 3
rd
party application pre installed.
Installations can be categorized in the following;
•
New Installations.
•
U
pdating Previous Installations.
New Installations
1. Insert the ’Bluefish444 Installer CD-ROM’ into your Macintosh.
2. Navigate to the drivers folder and Mac OS X section.
3. Open the DMG file to mount the installer disk image.
4. Run the installer application from the disk image.
It’s recommended that you refer to the downloads section on the Bluefish444 website for more recent updates and
drivers.
http://www.bluefish444.com/support/downloads/default.asp
5. Ensure you download the correct driver installer for your card type,
NOTE: If you are using Final Cut Pro™ or Adobe After Effects you need to run this installer after you have installed
these applications on your system.
It is advisable to have only a single copy of Final Cut Pro™ on your system.
6. Select ‘Standard Install’
This will install the Bluefish444 drivers, update the firmware for the video card and add the Bluefish Feature Control
application for operating the cards ancillary features such as analog signal routing, analog signal levels, key modes,
letter box generator and genlock etc
Updating Previous Installations
The latest Bluefish444 MAX OSX installer will detect any older Digital voodoo or Bluefish444 installers and provide and
option to uninstall them.