• Blackmagic Design

  component output from HD decklink extreme to Sony DSR-45p

  Posted by Ben Sherriff on February 18, 2009 at 11:46 am

  I am having some difficulties in outputting to my deck via the BM HD link extreme card component breakout. Into the system is working fine but I would like to be able to downconvert HDV footage to the deck and a 4:3 SD monitor – not all the time but to downconvert those HDV projects at the end of an edit. I am getting a strobing of the signal when I first select in BM preferences downcovert to letterbox 16:9 the signal is there when I click FCP interface. Then after a few seconds the image from all outputs including SDI begins to strobe or is lost entirely.

  I am new to this deck – but I figure it should work. Is this relating to ref input of the Sony Deck? My Blackmagic breakout cable only has a ref in, but the deck has both in and out. I’ve tried a kramer blackburst generator (connected to ref in of deck) but this doesn’t seem to have done anything…

  Ben Sherriff replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kristian Lam

  February 25, 2009 at 12:01 am

  Hi Ben,

  What format is your HDV sequence? 1080? 720? What framerate is it?

  regards

  Kristian Lam
  Blackmagic Design
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  Ben Sherriff

  February 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm

  Hi Kristian,

  I have solved this issue now thank you. The seq was a 1080 50i one that I wanted to downcovert using the component outs of the breakout cable. This I have achieved – the image strobing was being caused by my attempting to connect a ref in signal from the deck.

  I have had a nightmare trying to connect the UVW-1800p Betacam deck in the same way a few weeks previous…. So I had assumed I would need ref with the DSR-45p as well…

  I do still have a question relating to downcoversion though – how do I achieve split down conversion where I can monitor in HD SDI on my cinema display (with HD LINK) and then in SD Letterboxed or 16:9 on my component outs? Does this require dual link SDI?

  Many thanks,

  Ben

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