Why doesn’t the stable black work on the ref video in?

[Yves De muyter]

You have to put analog video into the ref-in of an 1800. You can try the loop-trough to loop the Y output of your DeckLink Extreme to the ref-in, and then to the Y-in.

-Yves

[Bob Zelin]

The Beta UVW 1800 is an analog Beta VTR. The External Reference jack on the back is expecting to see NTSC (or PAL) color black, from a color black or sync generator, like a Horita BSG-50. You can try all kinds of silly tricks and loops, but the CORRECT thing to do is to put color black into the Ref Video In of the Beta 1800. If you don’t do this, you get
“Error -093 NON STD REF”.

SDI is SERIAL DIGITAL INTERFACE – this is a digital video signal that is designed to go into the input of a Digital VTR, like a Sony DVW-A500 Digi Beta machine.

You may get lots of people responding to your question, saying “loop this, try this”, etc, but the CORRECT THING to do is to simply buy a $289 color black generator, and your problems will be over.

PS – this applies to EVERY CAPTURE CARD, and editing system ever manufacturered, including AVID and Sony. This is NOT a Blackmagic problem – the only problem is weather you are willing to get a black generator.

Bob Zelin

[Jeremiah Black]

Thanks, Yves, that worked just fine. Perfect!

[Jeremiah Black]

bob,

great advice, but I had to lay something off right then and there that night for a screening that was going up in 4 hours on a sunday night- no time to run out and buy a quicke blackburst gen! Thanks for the tip, though, and in the future, I’ll pick up a generator. As I said, because of time constraints, I did do the loop trick, and (for what it’s worth) it did work fine (on both assemble edits and insert edits). So, could you explain the added value of buying a true blackburst gen?

thanks for the help,

-JB

[Tad Newberry]

JB,

i’m getting the same error today! i’ve had the loop-through workaround working fine since i got my Mac system almost a year ago, then yesterday all i got on the 1800 window upon FCP startup was “Error93-000.”!!!!

i’m stuck, got a deadline (of course, this is always when technical problems occur!). i’ve played around with my cables, and it is only when i plug the “Y Out (to deck)” cable back into the ref in (upper left) that i get the error message again. not sure why it started to yell at me this way after months of faithful service. i thought maybe my loop-through BNC cable had gone bad. tried another, and the same problem…so maybe my decklink cable is bad? i dunno…

i understand about the blackburst generator solution, but like you are doing, my slightly cheaper option was working fine. any ideas on how to fix this without ordering a bb generator before next week??

thanks for helping out a bonehead!

[Tad Newberry]

uh…i hate to admit this, but it looks like when i had reset my FCP prefs, it went to a PAL preset instead of an NTSC one. (“it” meaning “me” somewhere along the lines…)

anyway, now my only problem is that i don’t get any video feed to my video monitor from the FCP timeline. i’ve tried all the output settings that i know about, but still nothing. i know i’m capturing because i have video in my Canvas and Viewer windows, and during capture, my 1800 plays the video to the monitor as well…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!