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  • problems with HDLink and my monitor display

    Posted by Garret on November 16, 2007 at 12:33 am

    Is anyone else having/had problems with HDLink and their monitor?

    For the last five months, we we’ve been using the Decklink HD Extreme (ver. 6.1 maybe? can’t remember) with an HDLink (ver. 2.0) to send DVI to a 23″ Apple Cinema Display.

    This has worked great, with few issues. On Saturday, I upgraded the Decklink software and firmware to 6.6.1 and the HDLink to 2.4.

    Now I’m getting an intermittent horizontal line with a small ripple across the screen–only on the HDLink-fed monitor–not in the Canvas. If I let footage play, it gradually moves down, but always stays on the top half of the image. It can be especially bad on cuts. (I would call this “tearing,” but I’m not sure that’s the proper use of the term.)

    Editing with 720/24pn footage.

    Sequence settings:
    HD (960×720) Frame Size
    HD (960×720) Pixel Aspect Ratio
    23.98 Editing Timebase
    DVCPRO HD 720p60 Compressor Quicktime Settings.

    Thoughts?

    Is anyone else using this configuration without issues?

    Thanks,
    Garret

    2×2.66 GHz Dual-Core Mac Pro, 5 GB RAM, FCP 6.0.1, OS 10.4.10, QT 7.2, 1.8 TB RAID 5 Firewire drive, DVCPRO HD codec, Decklink HD Extreme 6.6.1 capture card, HDLink 2.4

    Garret replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Baz Leffler

    November 16, 2007 at 1:16 am

    Garret – I am using a HDLink with the latest firmware with no problems but not the same config as you.

    I am coming out of a Multibridge Extreme via HD-SDI into a HDW1800 deck and out of the deck HD-SDI into a HDLink and then from that into a HDMI HD plasma – but it is all 1080 50i stuff.

    Baz

  • Garret

    November 16, 2007 at 1:57 am

    Thanks, Baz.

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