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HD-SDI Timecode De-embedder/reader
Does anyone know of an HD-SDI de-embedder/extractor/demuxer/reader that can pull the embedded SMPTE timecode from an HD-SDI signal and spit out LTC timecode? It would be a simple little black box… SDI input (maybe with an SDI loop out) and an LTC output by means of a 1/4″ plug or BNC spigot or similarly common TC output connector.
I’m surprised AJA doesn’t have a little “gray” box that does this… seems pretty straight forward and they’d be the company to make such a quality device.
Searching the net for days has yielded very little results. The closest I found was this…
https://www.evertz.com/products/8010TM-IRIG
but at a cost of about $3350, I don’t think I’ll be going that route.
Anyone have any idears?
Marco Solorio | CreativeCow Host | OneRiver Media | Codec Resource Site | Cinesoft | Media Batch
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[Marco Solorio] “I’m surprised AJA doesn’t have a little “gray” box that does this… seems pretty straight forward and they’d be the company to make such a quality device. “
Oh, but they do:
https://www.aja.com/html_pop/Io_HD_bp.html
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LOL, a little overkill for a TC reader, wouldn’t you say? Key word *little* gray box! 😉
Marco Solorio | CreativeCow Host | OneRiver Media | Codec Resource Site | Cinesoft | Media Batch
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What about the Horita box….this takes the RS422 output of the Kona card or deck and spits out an LTC audio channel. This is how I make timecode matching dubs from HDV to DVCProHD via the Convergent designs M1 box.
I think it is the TG-50. Horita is the timecode conversion/extraction company. Oh, and blackburst generators.
Rich Rubasch
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Thanks, Rich. Yeah I’ve seen that unit from Horita. Unfortunately it strictly needs to be from an embedded HD-SDI source.
Marco Solorio | CreativeCow Host | OneRiver Media | Codec Resource Site | Cinesoft | Media Batch
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[Marco Solorio] “Key word *little* gray box!”
Yeah, it’s a bit bigger than little. But for around the same price as the other one you mentioned, it does so much more! 😀
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Marco,
We do this in RaveHD but it’s much bigger than a bread box 🙂 Best of luck in your quest.
Cheers,
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Thanks Jon… I actually emailed them over the weekend! They said they might come up with such a device later this year. No luck for now though. =(
I also emailed a couple of other manufacturers, including Markertek to see if they knew of anything… so far no response. :-/
Marco Solorio | CreativeCow Host | OneRiver Media | Codec Resource Site | Cinesoft | Media Batch
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Thank you Jon!! this is just what i need.
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This is an old thread, but I was looking into this topic and found this:
https://www.markertek.com/product/ese-hd-491-sd/ese-hd-491-sd-hd-sd-sdi-timecode-decoder-generatorI think it is an SDI loop that will also read the embedded time code and then convert it to LTC.
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