Decklink HD Pro to scart?

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Dermot,

We don’t supply the BNC cables with HDLink. You will be able to pick these up fairly easily.

Regarding the Television – you will need to get a scart to component adaptor or a scart cable that has RCA/BNC component connectors at one end of the cable. A home theater specialist will have these. I have a German TV at home so i needed to do the same thing. Ixos are a good quality cable for this. Here is the link to their site. https://www.ixos.co.uk/interconnects/index2.html.

You can then run the analog component straight out of HD Pro into your television set.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Dermot,

The URL in Matt’s post works if the period is removed from the end of the URL as follows:
https://www.ixos.co.uk/interconnects/index2.html.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Dermot Faloon]

All sorted. This is great, everything is now working as it should. Very impressive.
One question tho, I regularly use progressive footage at DV quality and it looks interlaced on the hd link 23″lcd.
Looks like the hd link box is doing some sort of conversion.
Is this normal?

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Dermot,

That’s great to hear and thanks for letting us know.

In regards to your DV progressive material, what is the source that you are using to send this signal to HDLink? I presume it isn’t a DeckLink card as I don’t recall as setting for progressive DV.

The quality of standard definition interlaced material won’t always look great on a progressive LCD display even though it might look fine on an old interlaced CRT display. HDLink includes an interlaced simulation mode which can help provide a nicer display of interlaced material on a progressive LCD display but this is more effective with HD than SD material and hence the name HDLink.

Your problem puzzles me as you say your material is already progressive so I am keen to learn how you are outputting progressive DV via SDI to the HDLink.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Dermot Faloon]

I do not think the problem is with dv etc. I get motion artifacts on ANY movement SD/HD, even my cursor when it acts as a 2nd screen, it looks like interlacing but it isnt. When the movement stops the image is perfect. I have not fiddled with the HDLINK utility yet. I am connected from the decklink card to the HDLINK with 1 SDI cable and out of the the HDLINK to a new 23″ apple display (which is working fine). I try not to work with interlaced footage at all wherever possible.