Decklink HD Pro 25hz monitor ouput not working

[Nico Sandhof]

ntsc only monitor? or (not auto) switchable to pal?

[Jean-luc Gason]

Nah, full multistandard monitor, used on an Avid DS to try and PAL is working perfectly on this monitor.

Jean-Luc Gason

https://www.10bitlog.com

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Jean-Luc,

I was going to ask the same question as Nico but you’ve answered that one. We do plenty of PAL frame rate testing in SD and HD so we know it works.

If your monitor has both SDI and component analog inputs, then I would guess you are using the SDI ouput of DeckLink HD Pro for your testing. Switch to component analog output from the DeckLink HD Pro and see if that helps. Many broadcast monitors fail to detect a change in video format when you connect via SDI but they will happily switch when using analog connections. The DeckLink HD Pro can perform the SDI to analog conversion for you rather than using the SDI to analog board in the broadcast monitor. The quality will be just as good so it is worth trying to see if this makes a difference.

Please let me know what you find.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Jean-luc Gason]

Hop, found out what it was, I was indeed using HD-SDI ouput and INPUT on the monitor, but somewhere in the blackmagic panel, downconverting was enabled. And the HD-SDI input from the BVM monitor doesn’t recognize SD-SDI.

Turned downconversion off and it fired up.

Thanks for your help,

Jean-Luc

Jean-Luc Gason

https://www.10bitlog.com

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Jean-Luc,

That’s pretty funny 🙂 Thank you for posting the solution to your problem as I bet you won’t be the last person to encounter that problem.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design