Viruses
Viruses are an ever-increasing problem on computers. Computers will often
slow down if they become infected. This can cause various problems in video,
especially dropped frames and stuttering audio. For this reason, we recommend
you dedicate your Mac to video work and avoid using it for other tasks which
may introduce viruses, e.g. email, web browsing and sharing of ejectable disks
such as USB disks and non-commercial CD’s & DVD’s.
It is good practice to run antivirus software and keep it up to date. However,
the memory-resident component of many antivirus products is likely to cause
your video to drop frames. Accordingly, we recommend disabling the memory
resident component of your antivirus software while performing any video or
audio work.
Most antivirus programs show an icon in the System Preferences of Mac OS X™
and clicking on this icon will usually reveal an option to disable automatic virus
protection. Disable the automatic protection (“memory resident protection”) while
working on video or audio.
If you are also going to use your Mac for purposes other than video or audio
work, it would be wise to re-enable the automatic virus protection whenever you
have nished your video and audio work. At the time of writing this manual, there
were no known viruses which could infect Mac OS X™ and cause system slow
downs.
Given that memory resident antivirus software on Mac OS X™ will cause
performance degradation during video and audio editing, many DeckLink users
have chosen to permanently disable automatic virus protection for maximum
performance. Anyone choosing to take the same approach should re-evaluate
this decision on a regular basis, especially if new viruses become a problem on
the Mac OS X™ platform.
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