• Blackmagic Design

  monitoring 23″ Cinema Display woes

  Posted by Simon Webb on November 13, 2007 at 7:09 pm

  Hi there.

  I\m not sure if this is the correct forum but I’ll post here anyway.

  I’m currently working on a feature in a post facility that can best be described as “the worst place I’ve ever worked in my life!” Anyway, here’s the problem:

  I’m working in FCP v6.0.1. The material was shot on HDCam at 24p, digitized at 24p into the photo jpeg codec with a Blackmagic Decklink. So far so good. I’m using the Blackmagic HDLink box connected to an Apple 23″ HD Cinema Display for full screen monitoring, and THIS is where I’m having terrible trouble.

  Sometimes the image and the cuts seem as smooth as they can be, and then other times, those same images and cuts look as though they were digitized with the wrong field dominance. But it’s been digitized at 24p!

  The tech guy here says: “Oh, that’s normal,” but since I’ve been combing forums for any mentions of this strange phenomenon and have found nothing, my guess is that it’s not normal.

  Any ideas as to what’s going on here?

  Matt Devino replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matt Devino

  November 16, 2007 at 12:08 am

  We have the same problem with our sony 23″ monitor. (it’s actually the same screen as what’s in the Apple cinema displays, just a different case around it). I RMA’d an HDlink that was doing this, and the new one they sent me still has the same problem, just not as often. You can stop it from doing this by pulling the power from the HDlink and pluging it back in. Although this is just a temporary fix as it will start doing it again after a while. We actually spliced in a switch to our power supply as to not wear out the power jack on the box from pulling it out so often.

  I’ve always assumed those HDlinks are just a little bit buggy, but now that I hear someone else with the same screen is having the same problem, maybe it’s a compatibility issue between the screen and the HDlink. We have an HDlink hooked up to a 42″ aquos and it works fine.

  You can try calling BlackMagic and getting it RMA’d, although when I did that they seemed like they had never heard of the problem before, although it’s obvious now that it may be a common problem.

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