• Blackmagic Design

  Newbie “HD Reference” Question

  Posted by Joel Ferland on September 15, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  Hi,

  I plan on renting a DVCPRO-HD deck (Panasonic AJ-HD1400) to digitize tapes with a Blackmagic Extreme HD card.

  So here is my newbie question: do I have to plug a “reference signal” in the deck (and/or the capture card) or just the HD-SDI cable is OK?

  Thank you

  Bob Zelin replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bob Zelin

  September 17, 2008 at 1:56 am

  If you would like to have the blue “stop” light not flash on your AJ-HD1400, and have no issues when you output from your Blackmagic back to your AJ-HD1400, why don’t you get the nice, new Blackmagic Mini Converter sync generator – it’s only $295, and it even cheaper on “the street”. And you can use it with other non HD products like Beta machines. Is it worth the money – ABSOLUTELY. Should you order one tomorrow – ABSOLUTELY.

  Bob Zelin
  ps -the answer to your question is yes.

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