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Multibridge Eclipse – SDI Output Problem
Hi everyone,
Has anyone else experienced this problem with the Eclipse?
When I leave our MB powered for a few days continuously (say, over a weekend), I often find the SD-SDI output stops working. The other outputs continue to work fine – and since most of our monitoring is done via HDMI or component, this problem usually goes unnoticed until we output to tape. I’ve also had instances of this glitch affecting the SDI input – but not as frequently.
I’ve tried all the obvious stuff:
– Toggling the video output in FCP
– Toggling input and output modes in the Decklink Preferences
– Switching between HD and SD (Most of our projects are SD)I’ve also found that rebooting the Mac doesn’t always fix the problem. I usually have to power down both the Mac and the MB. (Is there a way to restart the MB without restarting the Mac?)
I know the obvious fix for this is to powerdown at the end of each day – but it isn’t always practical to do this (Overnight encoding, out of hours use, etc)
Has anyone else experienced this?
Kind regards,
Oli Trenouth.
Our setup:
Quad G5 PowerPC / 2.5GHz / 4Gb
XServe RAID / 6Tb
FCS v2
MB Eclipse
SD-SDI Output to/Input from Digibeta & DVCPro/DVCAM
Monitoring via HDMI & ComponentOliver Trenouth
Media Developer / Editor
National Media Museum, UK -
3 Replies
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Hi Oli,
Which version of drivers do you have on?
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
I’ve experienced this problem with 6.6.1 and 6.6.2. (More so with 6.6.2)
Just updated to 6.6.4, so will see what happens on Monday.
Oli.
Oliver Trenouth
Media Developer / Editor
National Media Museum, UK -
Hi.
Where do you keep your unit.
Maybe it heats up too much etc. conditions change over weekend.
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Margus
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