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  • Squashed Image on HyperDeck and Smartview Duo

    Posted by Scott Parker on April 14, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Hi All,

    Whenever I feed image into a Hyperdeck Studio and now also a Smartview Duo, the image is squashed in width, adding black to either side. Anyone know why?

    SP

    Shaun Roemich replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Aleksander Steffensen

    April 14, 2012 at 8:10 am

    Sounds like you are feeding an SD-signal into the units. Unfortunately, Blackmagic Design products does not like SD 16:9 signals, as there really is no way of knowing whether the signal is SD 4:3 or SD 16:9.

    Aleksander Steffensen
    Steffensen Multimedia

  • Scott Parker

    April 14, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    Thanks for that, I feared that was going to be the answer. Yes it is SD being fed into the units, which I would think would be something still reasonably common. It would be great if all systems had transitioned over to HD but various things will still limit that for sometime yet.

    It’s more than a bit of a design flaw I would argue…

  • Shaun Roemich

    April 15, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    Unfortunately, the design flaw is in widescreen SD. No intrinsic flag in the video signal for hardware to identify. The flag exists only in FILES, not video streams.

    Big Dog – Technical Director – Switcher
    Road Dog Media – Vancouver, BC Canada
    roaddogmedia@gmail.com

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