Jon Felix
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Thanks for letting me know Keith. I will pass your message on to MY supplier!
On the whole I like the BM card and apart from what does not work at the moment, it seems to do an excellent job. Great quality down-conversion on the fly etc.
Will post here what transpires.
Jon
Jon Felix
DIGIT POST
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Now spent several days trying to make the BM Decklink HD Extreme 3 card capture SD PAL from a variety of sources (you need PAL gear in Northern California?? We got it!).
And today finally talked to BM technical support and they confirmed that this is a ‘known issue’. So I guess it’s bye bye Blackmagic.
So I have a question – what would be the nearest (non Blackmagic) equivalent to this card without having to spend twice as much?!
Jon Felix
DIGIT POST
Marin County, California -
You need an adapter. S-Video to two RCA’s (Phono plugs). Make sure that this adapter is the one that separates Chrominance and Luminance. The cables should actually have little labels attached to them to show which is which.
Then you plug the Luminance one into Y in (or out) and the Chrominance one into B-Y in (or out).
Jon Felix
DIGIT POST
Marin County, California -
Yes .. I found that out (about the two activations), but the old machine, and it’s CS2 installation was no more. And this would have been only my second activation – but they still told me it was too old to use.
HOWEVER … a very helpful chap from Adobe saw my posting and phoned me and said that customer services were absolutely wrong about this. He was very annoyed about what I had been told and fixed the problem. So my opinion about Adobe has shifted somewhat … now if only Apple was as helpful!
Thanks anyway Richard, I appreciate your input.
Jon Felix
DIGIT POST
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Hi Keith,
Aaah! The irony of reading you response as a banner ad for the Blackmagic card flashes away immediately above your posting! I’m dismayed to hear that you are experiencing the same problem with SDI input as I have with composite input. I’m just off to my edit suite to try HD-SDI input to see if THAT works.
Tried your workaround, but it made no difference. Here’s what else I tried. A similar problem was reported for the Intensity card and a solution posted here:
https://www.thedigilabs.com/news/Blackmagic-Intensity-Pro-VHS-flicker-problem-solved-1300.aspx
Basically this suggested using an RCA to S-Video adapter, and then a S-Video to two RCA’s; splitting Luma and Chroma, ie. converting the composite video signal to S-Video. Spent $40 on the adapters. Made no difference.
Have emailed BM – so far no response. Meanwhile I have to try and clean the egg of my face as a result of recommending the card to our post company.
Jon
Jon Felix
DIGIT POST
Marin County, California