[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

“you are not reading what Jonathan Smiles has written to you. The Blackmagic card has an 9 pin RS422 port on it. ”

I have read and understood what Jonathan has written. I do not use the Rosetta Stone interface but instead I have directly plugged the RS422 cable provided by BlackMaginc Design with their card, not by Sony.

“When you state “it worked yesterday, and not it doesn’t work” -unfortunately, you can’t live like this in the computer world. You must UNDERSTAND what is happening, and understand where all the setup menu’s are. ”

I do know that particular aspect of the computer world as you name it. However, it happens that in this particular instance I really have no ideea as to what is wrong with the setup, although I did try to understand it. Before the deck arrived, I used the Sony F900 Cinealta camera to perform some test captures. Basically I plugged the HD out of the Miranda Downconverter to the HD SDI IN on the decklink card, and things worked perfectly. As I said previously. The lack of signal through the SDI connection is almost sure NOT computer related. In my view it might 1: Be a case o damaged cable. (Didn’t have time to check that yet). 2: Some internal settings on the deck although I do not remember tampering with any settings that might affect the HD SDI output.
I am trying to hire some engineer with special qualifications but, I do not own the company so I have to convince the big guys to spend some more bucks on this matter. As I said, I would gladly avoid this technical nonsense If I could. Right now though I’m trying to investigate and solve this by myself.

Thanks
CB

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

@Bob Zelin

Thanks for the reply. Yes, if things become overly technical I sometimes find myself in trouble, as I come from a graphics backround and for the last years I dedicated myself to editing and (while I did not neglect the technical side of the issue I was really more concerned with the editing / graphics aspects. Additionally I’ma an Avid editor and Premiere seems quite awkward to me and I still have problems mastering it. However I have spent my fair share of time connecting and disconnecting stuff (mostly disconnecting asa that is easier :D).
Anyway, as I said, I have connected the decklink directly to the Remote IN of the deck instead of connecting it to the RS232 port. As I said I did have some sort of deck control, meaning that I could send basic play, stop, ffd and rew command to the deck from within Premiere but, the timecode information received / read / whatever by Premiere was all wrong. I am almost sure the TC Premiere displayed in the capture window was not internally generated (as it didn’t start with 00:00:00:00) but was actually an input from the deck (perhaps wrongly translated by the deck control connection).

As for the SDI out connection of the deck to the Decklink In all I can say is that the very first day the deck arrived I was able to get a signal from the deck into Premiere and succesfully make a capture. After that, I didn’t get any input from the deck. As I said, the output from Premiere works just fine.
Mode is fine on the Decklink and as far as I remember I didn’t mess up with any setting in the HDW-500 control pannel that could cause the deck not to send a signal on the SDI out.

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

I tried recapturing some of the material, this time using Premiere’s *abort capture on frame drop* option. As soon as I started playing / capturing the footagea after a fews seconds, Premiere aborted capture indicated a dropframe, although I could see nothing wrong in the camera viewfinder or on the 24″ HD monitor.

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

Ok. Many thanks for the feedback.

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

Er… I didn’t post the link? :S

Here it is again.

https://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

About the freakin’ typos. Well… I speak fast and I type fast… perhaps I would be best suited for a secreatary job rather than an editing one. 😀 But, typos are not my fault, it’s this damn Logitech keyboard which, as I stated on another forum seems to have all the keys shifted half an inch to the left… or perhaps it was supposed to be sold in Korea. 😀

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

Well, AFAIK, as far as you don’t experience serious calibration problems with your monitor you really don’t need a technician, and as far as you know some basic rules (which I myself often forget by the way) you should have no trouble eyeballing your monitor. And you also happen to own a PRO monitor which is far better. Here’s a link I recently discovered to what I think is a pretty comprehensive explanation of the calibration process. Hope this helps.

Holly crap… I just noticed how many (as far as’s) I used in this post. I should really brush up on my communication skills. Damn… 😀

[Andrei-cristian Murgescu]

Thanks guys. You know… I was thinking of a solution as a sort of workaround. I would take a set of hidef bars, bring them to Photoshop reset the saturation to 0 or transforming them to plain black & white. Then, I would add the bars in After Effects for instance and on top of that add a pure 255 blue layer.
What do you think?