Denis Warburton
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Hi Mike,
There are a variety of points within a given system in which delay can be introduced.
In your case, yes, genlocking certainly may help. Indeed, as the HS410 manual details, there are points within the switcher itself in which path delays can be accrued – inclusive of using PIP. Depending upon other aspects of your configuration, there may be other points of delay. However, it’s hard to say more without knowing more specific detail about the show, and both your post and production needs.
Needless to say, while there will always be delays in a live system, the name of the game is managing and minimizing them to make both production and post easier.
-Denis
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Yes, I’ve used them without issue for many years.
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It looks like you’re importing directly from the SxS card – have you tried copying the card to your hard drive, and tried importing from there?
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Hi Todd,
For your application, it sounds like you may have better luck with the offerings from either AJA or Telecast Fiber.
AJA’s FiDO converters are closest in price point to the Blackmagic devices, and offer single strand transmission in an LC connector. At a higher price point are the Miranda (formerly Telecast) Rattlers, which can nominally go 20km, which feature ST connections. If you go the AJA route, I’d recommend contacting AJA to determine the receiver sensitivity, so you can properly calculate your optical budget.
Cheers,
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On the problematic system, did the disk spin up at all? If you have the AC adapter for the drive, does the same thing occur when the drive is powered from an AC adapter on the same system?
The only time I’ve had this occur – exactly once – the culprit was the host machine’s FireWire port / adapter. It might be worth looking into this further to determine if the fault is with the port on the Mac or the drive.
-Denis
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If you feel comfortable with using command-line tools, ffmpeg/ffmbc can readily do the conversion (and as a batch if you’re good with scripting). Both of these programs are free, but as fair warning, the latter needs to be compiled on your system before it can be used.
If you google a bit, you can find some example command line samples for each tool.
Cheers,
Denis