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HD Link to Sharp Aqua HDTV
Sorry to bombard you with questions Luke…
The team wanted a BIG monitor to impress the director so we got the Sharp Aqua HDTV and it’s a 1080p LCD TV with HDMI inputs.
Going via SDI to the HD Link Box using the regular video out from the easy setup (HDTV 1080p 23.98) gives us no picture on the HDTV but changing the video under the View Menu Video Output – 1080p 23.98 -> 29.97 gives us a picture but the FCP slows down so much that the editor can’t work with it.
My guess is that the TV needs the 29.97 framerate to create a picture, but is it reasonable to expect the computer to slow down that much due to realtime TC converting via the SDI output?
We’re using a quad core Intel Mac Pro with 4GB RAM and FCP 5.1.4 and the latest BMD driver, 6.1 I guess it is.Thanks,
Erik -
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Hi Erik,
I don’t believe that 1080p23.98 is part of the HDMI standard and so that’s why you can’t use it directly with your HDMI TV. To solve the problem, switch your easy setup to Blackmagic HDTV 1080 23.98 -> 59.94 and then your TV should be able to play out the 1080i59.94 signal.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
[Luke Maslen] “switch your easy setup to Blackmagic HDTV 1080 23.98 -> 59.94 and then your TV should be able to play out the 1080i59.94 signal.”
OK, I’ll try that tomorrow.
But we did get a picture by changing the video out (1080p 23.98 -> 29.97) under the “View” menu. My guess was that this is essentially the same output as using the Easy Setup 1080p 23.98 -> 59.94.Thanks,
Erik
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