Cleiber Goulda
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Thanks.
It is still a mystery as to how I managed to output SD out of the computer the Eclipse is connected to. I haven’t figured out a way to do it yet…
Cleiber
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Chris,
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! That helps a lot.
I can now forget about that option and look elsewhere. That means that whatever I did to convert between HD to SD did NOT involve the hardware of the Eclipse. Since we do not have any other HD capture equipment, I must have used some software to “grab” the converted SD stream and output it via the Canopus ADVC700 or another firewire DV interface.
But since we are on the subject – would it theoretically be impossible for the converted SD stream to be sent to Eclipse’s output? If the inputs/outputs are locked in the hardware to each other, I guess not – but I wonder if that might be something that would be doable by a change in the firmware?
Thanks again!
Cleiber
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**PLEASE**
could someone from BM chime in here – or let me know that you won’t/can’t answer my questions?
When using HD to SD on the inputs, I can see SD on MediaExpress. However, the output is still HD, not SD.
When I input HD using MediaExpress (SDI or component), I get HD on the outputs. If I change the output downconvert menu to “HD to SD” letterbox or anamorphic, I still get HD on the MB Eclipse’s output.
Surely this isn’t correct behavior? Could there be a fault with the unit? I am using the latest version of the driver and software.
I know this is a basic question – but would appreciate it very much if someone from BM could confirm what is the expected behavior. I have spent over 30 hours trying to figure this out and our project starts today. I did do this before, but now I think there might be a fault with the system.
Thanks!
clibgold”at”h0tmail.com
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After my previous post I was get the Eclipse to down-convert while capturing. Now, I have a bit of an emergency…
While I was away, the booth where the equipment is located in our school was refurbished and everything was disconnected. I spent the whole day yesterday going through the manual and trying different choices on the BM control panel to try to remember what I did before that worked, to no avail.
If someone could help me out ASAP, I would really appreciate it as we have several projects starting tomorrow that need both HD and SD. My basic questions are:
1 – Can the Eclipse down-convert HD from SDI input to all the analogue outputs (component/composite) or only to SDI? If so, how do I need to set the control panel utility (downconvert on input, output or both)? ( I thought I had it setpu before with HD-SDI in but neither component nor composite have an output signal when ingesting HD SDI when I tried this no matter how the control panel utility was setup).
2 – Can the Eclipse down-convert HD from component input to all the analogue outputs, or maybe only to component out? How does the control panel choices (input/output) have to be set?
3 – Does realtime downconversion work with Media Express?
Again, many thanks for any input!
Cleiber
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Callum,
When using the Eclipse in standalone mode as a converter, can it downconvert from HD-SDI input to SD analogue output? Looking at the workflow chart, it appears that it can do this – but I haven’t been able to make it work with an analogue SD monitor (composite in) with a 1080i HD-SDI input.
Thanks,
Cleiber
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Neville,
Meanwhile, I would definitely suggest the purchase of a firewire card for your notebook, before they disappear. Don’t know what your ASUS uses, but it is probably PCI Express? HDV bandwidth (compressed on the tape) is <30 Mbps – you would be saving a tremendous amount of HD space (and headaches as well, I wager) by ingesting those tapes in HDV format instead of uncompressed.
Although I agree that these BD units should support <3Gbps chipsets, my experience has shown that ingesting full HD is a “major” even for fully-decked desktops. I doubt a notebook would be able to ingest at that bitrate in any case without a serious RAID 0 array on the eSATA port, and/or without real-time compression like MJPEG. Might as well deal with the HDV on the disk instead of that kind of workaround.
Just my $0.02…
Cleiber
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Difficult to get answers here from the BM folks. None of my posts have been answered by them. I have found answers to similar topics in other forums that came from BM even though they didn’t post here (the supposedly “official” forum) about it…
I gather they have been working to try to find out laptops that work with these USB 3.0 machines (Shuttle, Ultrastudio, etc…), but the only one that apparently worked well so far was the HP Envy 15″ (even though it is not a native USB3.0 machine) and it is now discontinued. Read elsewhere that the Envy 17 had not worked. The newer Envy 14 doesn’t yet go up to 1080 res, so it probably wouldn’t be a good choice.
I do hope that they find some laptop soon that will work with this product. If they could switch off the duplex, that would probably make it much easier for the current machines to handle. I am waiting for news on this to buy my (much needed) next laptop so hope that we have some news soon.
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The Envy 15 is discontinued. Anyone have any other suggestions as to which laptop might work with the UltraStudio?
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Yeah, I heard that. Can’t figure out how they got it to work with the Envy 15″ since according to HP’s specs, it doesn’t have USB 3.0 built-in and I thought the PCI cards wouldn’t work.
However, the Envy 15 has been discontinued and they now have the Envy 14 and 17 models. From what I can see, there is no 1080 screen version for the 14. I also read in another forum that they have not been able to make the Shuttle work with the Envy 17, which probably means that for now we are back to square 1…
If anyone knows if the shuttle works with the Envy 14 or any other laptop, would appreciate a head’s-up as I am about to go on the market for a new laptop and would like to get the Shuttle or the UltraStudio Pro.
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On that note – does anyone know if the Shuttle has worked well with a laptop? Have been searching about this and so far, nada…
Thanks,
C