Vimeo Is Yet Again Changing Its Offering (C) If You Are A Current "Plus" Subscriber

 If you are a current Vimeo "Plus" subscriber, your upgrade plans look like this: Pro, Business, Premium.

Pro gets you the grandfathered Pro plan (not available to new subscribers.) Business and Premium are the same upgrade offers as for Pro subscribers. At least that's consistent.

Again no mention of VOD or video subscription services, just a vague "Sell your videos to fans worldwide". For info, the grandfathered current Pro plan allows for VOD.

Vimeo Is Yet Again Changing Its Offering (B) If You Are A Current "Pro" Subscriber

 Vimeo has new plans with new names and new rules. Depending on your status, new or current subscriber, the offer differs, as does the nomenclature...

For you, current "Pro" subs, this is the current offer to upgrade: Business or Premium plans.

Business and Premium have no upload limits vs. 20GB with the grandfathered "Pro".

Total storage is 5TB for Business, 7TB for Premium, 1TB for Pro.

Premium gets live streaming / events goodies.

Pro, Business, Premium get unlimited stock photos, videos, and licensed music.

Notably, there is no mention of VOD or video subscription, just a vague "Sell your video directly to your fans". What form does this take? No idea.

Vimeo Is Yet Again Changing Its Offering (A) New Subscribers

 Vimeo keeps changing its offerings, now with new plans, and new denominations: Starter (The old "Plus", only different), Standard (Old "Pro", although not quite), and Advanced for live streaming and events. Plus the usual Enterprise, custom, talk to us service.

THAT IS, IF YOU ARE A NEW SUBSCRIBER.

If you are already a "Plus" or "Pro" subscriber, you will get DIFFERENT UPGRADE OFFERS with DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. See my other posts. Vimeo is so confusingly bad at this.

(A) NEW SUBS

Biggest change: these new plans are all SINGLE TEAM MEMBER. Previous plans had 3 "Pro", or 10 "Business" & "Premium" INCLUDED team members. Not anymore. You have to pay more for additional seats.

Notable change from previous plans: there is now a QUOTA OF VIDEOS ("total number of videos you can have in your account at any given point in time"): 60 for Starter, 120 for Standard, 500 for Advanced. All plans have a 2TB bandwidth per month, no change there.

Prior plans had a total storage limit of 250GB "Plus", 1TB "Pro". And also a limit of 5GB/week upload "Plus" and 20GB/week upload "Pro", without any limits in the total number of videos. These plans are grandfathered at this point for what I can tell.

Standard now has video editing tools, including text based editing, stock photos, videos, and music, and an AI script generator. Starter gains Collaboration tools.

All plans get subscription services (bye, bye OTT), only Standard and Advanced have single video VOD. Sorta like before when you needed at least a "Pro" plan for VOD. 

Blip App From Blip.net May Crash At Sign-Up On Your iPhone - Workaround

 You may want to use the Blip app from Blip.net on your iPhone.

But if it crashes on Sign-up like it did for me, here is a workaround:

1) Sign-up on your computer first.

2) Sign-in with the same email on your phone.

Blip app will not crash, it will use the same credentials you use on the computer and will recognize both devices, so that you can transfer from one device to the other.

Again in my case, the Blip app will crash systematically if you try to Sign-up on your phone first. I guess that's a bug that needs addressing by the Blip folks. In the meantime, use this workaround.

Final Cut Pro: Incompatible Audio Units Found - Force Validate Audio Units / Plug-Ins

 Mac M1, macOS Sonoma 14.3

Got an Incompatible "Audio Units Found" each time I launch FCP. In my case because of TC Electronic LM2n audio plug-in V1.1.4 which according to MusicTribe / TC Electronic is not compatible with M1.

 According to MusicTribe / TC Electronic V1.2.0 is compatible with M1s.  OK fine, I downloaded the correct version from this page. Search for LM2 and download V1.2.0, or the newest version.

I ran the Uninstall LM2n.command to get rid of the old version, and installed the new version. And I got... the SAME "Incompatible Audio Units Found" message on FCP launch! 😠

 Next I deleted Final Cut Pro Preferences (Launch FCP while holding Command + Option.) Clicked the Delete preferences button. And... SAME message. 😡 I guess this step is not useful.

Sticky, pesky message, even though I upgraded to the M1 compatible V1.2.0 of the Plug-In.

OK, so the way to do this is to force Final Cut Pro to rescan all Audio Units by clicking the "Validate on Next Launch" button in Preferences / General:

Click on Audio Units: Validate on Next Launch.

 Bizarrely when you click on this button, nothing happens or shows that it's being selected. But, on restarting Final Cut Pro, it DOES go through all the AUs and validates then. In essence it's instructing FCP to perform a force validation of AU audio plug-ins.

 And this time, lo and behold... They PASSED! And now I can use them in FCP, no problem.

 So if you believe you have the correct version of an audio plug-in, but FCP is flashing the message, do try the force validation as it might fix the problem as it did for me.

Blackmagic Design Desktop video 12.8 Is Broken On Sonoma 14.3 - Fix For Now Is: Downgrade To 12.7.1

 So the saga continues with Blackmagic Design Desktop Video misbehavior on Mac M1s. BMD tech support confirmed that there is an issue with DV 12.8.

The device shows up in system Preferences, but is not outputting video with Final Cut Pro, nor Premiere, only with Resolve.

Solution: downgrade to DV 12.7.1, which works just fine.

I had to Restore legacy video device prior to installation as explained in the Apple support page.

Always uninstall before installing new software.

BMD installer / uninstaller makes downgrading easy.

FCP Video standard is populated, unlike DV 12.8

Working correctly with macOS Sonoma 14.3

BlackMagic Design Desktop Video Updated To 12.8, Now Works On macOS Sonoma 14.2.1... But Only With Resolve...

 DV version 12.7.1 was broken with Apple update to Sonoma, not even launching.

BMD just updated their DV app to version 12.8. It is now recognized by Macs M1s with macOS Sonoma 14.2.1.

Shows up in system report, good.

Launching fine, great.

Version 12.8

It works fine with Resolve, I can output to my external monitor without problems, so that's progress.

It shows in Resolve settings, and it outputs playback just fine from Resolve!

--- Now it still does not work with Final Cut Pro... 😩 Weirdly the Video Standard for Final Cut Pro is empty. Nothing under the drop down menu, it's empty. 😕

No way to select anything in FCP Video standard. That's not normal.

In FCP Playback settings, no way to select BMD output, it's not there.

--- It doesn't work with Premiere Pro either... Even though in Premiere case, it shows in the Playback settings.

Blackmagic Playback available from Premiere's preferences.

It shows in Premiere, but no output...

So, some progress, but it looks to me that Sonoma 14.2.1 is still blocking the output to Blackmagic devices.

I feel BMD has figured it out for Resolve, since it's outputting on playback no problem, but Final Cut Pro nor Premiere is able to output.

In the Read Me document, BMD state that Sonoma, listed devices and listed softwares are supported, but that's not entirely the case in my experience. 😞

About Blackmagic Desktop Video Software

Welcome to the Desktop Video software for macOS!

This software includes everything you need to set up your DeckLink, UltraStudio and Intensity for video capture and playback with your macOS computer.  

What's new in Desktop Video 12.8

New features and bug fixes for DeckLink IP models:

• Fix an issue where Rec.2020 video was incorrectly tagged.

• Ensure audio is passed through during keying.

• Add support for PTP follower only mode.

• Fix an issue where audio is captured on the wrong channels.

• Fix an issue where corrupted video is sometimes received during loopback capture.

• Ensure all flows are stopped after a video format change on the source.

• Fix intermittent issue where black video is captured after changing video input format.

• Fix issue where network settings would sometimes disappear in Setup utility.

• General performance and stability improvements for all models.

Minimum System Requirements

• macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later.

• macOS 13.0 Ventura.

• macOS computer with either Thunderbolt or PCIe slot.

• 8 GB of system memory.

Note: The following products are supported on macOS Ventura and Sonoma:

Apple silicon and Intel Macs:

- DeckLink Duo 2

- DeckLink Quad 2

- DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder

- DeckLink 8K Pro

- DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G

- DeckLink IP HD

- DeckLink IP HD Optical

- DeckLink IP/SDI HD

- DeckLink Micro Recorder

- DeckLink SDI Micro

- DeckLink Mini Monitor HD

- DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K

- DeckLink Mini Recorder

- DeckLink Mini Recorder HD

- DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K

- DeckLink SDI 4K

- DeckLink Studio 4K

- UltraStudio Recorder 3G

- UltraStudio Monitor 3G

- UltraStudio HD Mini

- UltraStudio 4K Mini

- UltraStudio 4K Extreme 3

- Intensity Pro 4K

- DeckLink 4K Pro

- DeckLink 4K Extreme

- UltraStudio 4K

- UltraStudio 4K Extreme

Intel Macs only:

- DeckLink Mini Monitor

- DeckLink HD Extreme 3

- DeckLink HD Extreme 3D

- DeckLink SDI

- DeckLink Duo

- DeckLink Quad

- DeckLink Studio

- UltraStudio Express

- UltraStudio Mini Monitor

- UltraStudio Mini Recorder

- Intensity Pro

- Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt

Third Party Software Support

• DaVinci Resolve 17 and 18.

• Fusion Studio 17 and 18.

• Apple Final Cut Pro.

• Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2022 and 2023.

• Adobe After Effects CC 2022 and 2023.

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 and 2023.

• Adobe Character Animator CC 2022 and 2023.

• Autodesk Flame 2024.

• Avid Media Composer 2023.

• Avid Pro Tools 2023.

• The Foundry Nuke (Intel Macs only).

If you have installed the drivers prior to installing any of these applications, we recommend that you uninstall and reinstall the drivers. This will ensure that all relevant components are installed in their required locations.

Additional Information

Please check www.blackmagicdesign.com for additional information on third party software compatibility and minimum system requirements.

Some applications may use third party code under license. For details please refer to the included "Third Party Licenses.rtf" document.

Copyright 2024 Blackmagic Design. All rights reserved. 'Blackmagic Design', 'Blackmagic', 'Blackmagic Cloud', 'DaVinci Resolve', 'Fusion', 'Fairlight', 'Ultimatte', 'HyperDeck', 'DeckLink', 'HDLink', 'Videohub', 'Intensity' and 'Leading the creative video revolution' are registered trademarks in the US and other countries. All other company and product names may be trade marks of their respective companies with which they are associated.

Updated January 24, 2024.