Chad Pearson
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In order to connect to anything over a network each device needs a unique IP address, normally provided by a DHCP server (typically found on a router). When you plug your laptop directly into the Teranex Mini, your laptop first tries to send a request to get an IP address for itself, however the only other device on that cable is the Teranex, so your laptop does not get one. Similary when you plug the Teranex mini into the network it requests an IP address for itself, but the only other device on the network is your laptop, which is (normally) not running a DHCP server program and the Teranex does not get one.
On top of that, because your laptop is connected to WiFi, its wireless interface DOES have an IP address, and because the wired interface does not, will only try to communicate over the wireless interface, which is not connected to the Teranex. However, if you turn your wireless interface off, then the laptop will fall back to only using the wired interface where it will eventually see the Teranex.
You need to plug the Teranex into your router, (or a network switch connected to a router), let it get an IP address, and then you should be able to communicate with it over wireless. Or if you ALSO plug a wire from your laptop into the same router (or network switch connected to your router) it will get an IP address and be able to communicate with the Teranex.
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Any of the capture cards you mentioned will work fine once you have a Time Base Corrector in between the camera and the capture card (or hyperdeck, etc). A time base corrector is needed because tape based recording mediums do not produce a “stable” video signal when playing back video, especially when converting / capturing to a digital or file based format that needs each frame of video to start and end at the exact frame rate the video is captured at (This is a bit of an oversimplification).
You will notice that if you plug the camera straight into the capture card, but use the camera’s live signal it will work just fine because it is not coming off the tape and is therefore a stable signal
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A sync signal is just an analog composite video signal, typically with the video all black. You would have to plug it into the analog composite input of the card, but it should work.
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No. The Decklink (nor any other Blackmagic card) will not capture audio-only. There must always be a video signal present to work.
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The Intensity Shuttle is not a graphics card. It only works with specialty video software that can capture and/or playout to those types of special cards, such as Final Cut, Adobe Premier, AVID, or the included Blackmagic Media Express software.
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Only Blackmagic would have those details and they are never (NEVER) accurate. Do not listen to anything their marketing department says, including (but not limited to) what features will or will not be in the product (or are half working) and when / if it will ever ship.
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That is all marketing BS. Decklink cards are not graphics cards and have no GPU, and therefore do not do ANY processing themselves. The blurb about “support” for the Mercury Playback engine is just fluff meaning that whatever graphics card/GPU you use to process your project will pass straight through to the “dumb” output of your Decklink card.
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If you are looking for an official answer from Blackmagic, you will need to contact Blackmagic. Their support number is on their website. This is a user forum full of users just like you, who generally have no better chance of fixing the problem than you.
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Yes, in both cases the input audio will always be embedded in every (digital) output. The Teranex lets you choose whether you want to use the incoming HDMI/SDI embedded audio, or the XLR/RCA audio inputs.
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Blackmagic makes a couple of rack-mount SDI monitors. Or you could get an SDI based “camera mount” monitor like a SmallHD or even a Marshall. They come in sizes anywhere from 4 to 10 inches