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AJA TTap
Just got one for my iMac.
It is working,but I have lost my audio output from iMac, it now follows the HDMI signal to the monitor.This is a consumer Samsung and consequently not the best sound.
I need to restore previous routing, which was taking audio from headphone output on the Mac, and sending to an amp and superior speakers.Has anyone figured how to do this?
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Sorry…can’t. Once you hook up IO to the computer, Avid sends audio to it…period. You cannot tell Avid to send audio to the computer headphones. You’ll have to get a mini converter box, Blackmagic has an SDI to audio one for $200.
Shane
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If the Samsung doesn’t have an audio pass through, you could try something like this.
HDMI audio deembbedder. Has a headphone jack and video pass through to your Samsung
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Thanks guys.
The audio deembedder could work, otherwise I return the AJA
and cough up for a Matrox box, I guess. I believe it allows
audio monitoring, although don’t have it right in front of me.The monitor does not have pass through unfortunately.
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Note that Matrox will stop supporting MC for its products. May not be the best investment.
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Yikes, good to know!
Any strong recommendations from anyone, as to alternatives?
I know there is AJA and Black Magic, and would like to stay
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Matrox support for Avid lately is spotty. I’d look at Decklink options.
Shane
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Shane,
This is for my iMac, so cards are not an option. I was thinking Intensity box for Thunderbolt from BM Design.
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So, I just heard back from BM support.
They tell me separating audio and video via HDMI will cause sync issues. Which sort of defeats the purpose of their Avid approved Intensity I/O solution, doesn’t it? The signal travels from the Mac to the box via Thunderbolt, I thought to monitor video from the HDMI, audio from the RCA audio outs.If indeed that is true, I imagine the de-embedder suggested earlier with the AJA TTap would also be a problem.
How do you guys deal with this?
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I have the AJA IoXT, and now the Decklink UltraStudio Extreme 4K. I send picture to the monitor via SDI, and monitor audio from the phono outs on the AJA box…and the RCA outs on the BMD unit. Interestingly there is a one-frame difference between my PROGRAM monitor in Avid, and the external monitor. On both units. I hear this mainly when I monitor both the audio from the box directly, and from the monitor that has audio outs. I tend to monitor audio from my broadcast monitor…loop through. Although it isn’t too bad the other way…I mainly do that for client review.
So I guess my solution is that I have a broadcast monitor with loop through. An FSI monitor. But there is a console command you can type in to offset the sync difference.
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You’ll have to type that in every time you open your project
Shane
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Thanks Shane.
I don’t have the budget or gear options
working with an iMac.The search continues.
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