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CS4 to Sony Beta deck output is funky.
When I monitor my Sony BetaCam deck for the video input, it responds by shifting down a smidgen every few minutes, leaving a black bar across the top and eventually putting the bottom half of the video on the top half of the monitor…help! We can’t broadcast that!
I’m using a BlackMagic design DeckLink Studio to interface with all my external decks.
Be specific, I’m new to most of the video industry terminology.
Thank you.
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5 Replies
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It’s probably a UVW1800…or possibly a PVW machine?
This is a lack of a reference signal…you need to feed the deck some stable black in the “REF” input on the back.
Frankly, I’ve gone to simply recording it and watching it after as with the old UVW 1800 deck I’m using, even though the picture looks like this when recording, the recorded video is always fine.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Pretty much what Tim said. You could probably look on eBay and get a black burst generator, pass through the deck and and the Decklink card, that should fix your issue.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Feed your Y output from your BM Studio into the REF input on the back of your Betacam deck, then loop the REF output to the Y input on the Betacam.
The Y output on all BM cards carry a stable ref signal.
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[nicky van der walt] ”
The Y output on all BM cards carry a stable ref signal.”So there is a BB signal being generated internally in BM cards? You don’t need to feed the board a reference signal?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
It’s the luminance (Y) signal. It works just fine.
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