Instruction manual

Getting Started

Installing Blackmagic Desktop Video Drivers on Windows 7

Step 1. Ensure you have the very latest driver. Visit www.blackmagic-design.com/support

Step 2. Open the “Desktop Video” folder and launch the “Desktop Video” installer.

Step 3. The drivers will now be installed on your system. An alert will appear: “Do you want to allow the

following program to install software on this computer?” Click Yes to continue.

Step 4. You will see a dialog bubble saying “found new hardware” and the hardware wizard will appear.

Select “install automatically” and the system will ﬁnd the required Desktop Video drivers. You will

then receive another dialog bubble saying “your new hardware is ready for use.”

Step 5. Now restart your computer to enable the new software drivers.

Plugins and applications that are installed

The Desktop Video software installer installs the following components:

 Blackmagic Desktop Video drivers

 Blackmagic Design Control Panel

 Blackmagic Design LiveKey

 Blackmagic Media Express

 Blackmagic Multibridge Utility

 Blackmagic AVI and QuickTime

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codecs

 Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

 Adobe® Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop presets and plug-ins

 Avid Media Composer 6 plug-ins

Automatic updates

After your computer has restarted, the software will check the Blackmagic video hardware to see what

internal software the hardware contains. If the internal software version does not match the driver version,

Desktop Video will offer to update the internal software. This is automatic and all you need to do is click OK

to start the update. After the internal software has updated, restart your computer to complete the process.

Restart your PC!

Click “Yes”.

Desktop Video Setup Wizard