Justin Strauber
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I had thought about doing this, actually. Shuttle makes a 15″ touchscreen that’s around $400 that would work with the 1M/E software panel. The only reservation I have against it is that it nearly kills the ability to ‘touch switch’, as you can’t really leave your fingers ‘on’ the buttons without accidentally activating them. You’d have to have your hands hovering over the screen.
It would work if you’re using it for sporadic use, but for actually switching something live I’d be worried it would be more difficult than a keyboard / mouse combination.
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These are the instructions from the Adobe site for CS5 / CS5.5, have you checked this setting?
– Premiere Pro > Preferences > Audio Output Mapping (Mac OS).
– In the Preferences dialog box, from the Map Output For menu, choose the driver for the device desired. By default, Premiere Pro selects Built-In (Mac OS).You want to make sure that’s set on Built-In. If it is, then you got me puzzled. I don’t have a Mac with BMD hardware in it, so I can’t see if I can reproduce it, but on my PC, all my audio in Premiere goes through my Decklink SDI card, regardless of timeline preset. I can change it via the windows version of the settings above.
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Do you have your speakers connected to the BMD board or just the computer? With the BMD board installed, playback audio will default to the board rather than your PC sound card.
If your speakers aren’t hooked to the BMD, you can remap premieres output to use your PC speakers in the preferences.
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From the specs, there’s a frame or two delay on non-referenced sources. I’ve never seen enough of a delay caused by the 1M/E to cause a problem. I do run analog audio from a separate mixer into the ATEM and then use it’s analog outputs or embedded audio, which may (or may not) be doing the appropriate audio delay.
I have used HDMI for a cable. At 1080i, however, I can only reliably use a 25′ HDMI cable. Any longer and it starts losing sync. Some cameras have a ‘stronger’ HDMI cable than others and can go longer.
As an alternative, I use a pair of Monoprice HDMI over Cat6 extenders (about $40), and 190′ of Cat6 cable (requires two cables) to extend about 200′ total from the ATEM.
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I don’t think the Decklinks will do up-convert. Down-convert, yes, but not Up.
Yes, your screen is ‘scaling’ the image to make it fit the full screen. I know on one of the screens at my office we can turn ‘off’ the scaler, via the display button, so it will show ‘actual’ size, pixel for pixel. The problem is, that makes it a fairly small postage stamp on the screen. And, to be honest, doesn’t really represent what you’ll see on a larger screen like you have there.
You can get an upconverter that may do better, like an UpDownCross or AJA FS1, but you’re still going from SD to HD, and what you’re seeing is one of the horrible side-effects of starting in a lower resolution to view on a higher resolution screen.
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There is no on/off switch. If you want to turn it off, then as you’ve found, just cut the power.
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Well, firstly, the OpenGear Converter software applies to all of the converters. When they update the code for one, it automagically updates the download for all of them. Did they do something for the UpDownCross? No, probably not.
The readme states “General performance and stability improvements”, which is vague at best. Improvement to the converter software or for one of the converters?
Now, exactly what problem are you referring to with the metadata?
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You would need a real audio mixer to do what you’re trying to do, though I must admit i’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do.
Anyway, in regards to 16 sources mixed down to four channels of output, you would need an audio mixer with at least 4 ‘busses’, so that you can assign input faders to the different busses. That way you could take four inputs and route them to one output (if you’re doing say, four mics down to one output)
To get the audio to the board you would either need to run the audio separately from the cameras, or purchase audio de-embedders to go from SDI-embedded to analog. Alternatively you can try and find a mixing console with SDI inputs, but that may not be cost effective.
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Agreed. Bit of an oversight in my opinion. We’re an SD shop but need to shoot in HD just to view our shots in the correct aspect ratio.
Would be nice if you could choose the view in SD, square or widescreen
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Not entirely sure in your case, but you would probably need an UpDownCross after the analog->SDI converter in order to get things to the right format. I don’t have an HDV camera, all of mine are straight 1080i, so I can’t tell you with certainty.