[Martin Smith]

Tested with Final Cut Pro and same result.

Ultrastudio 3D with driver 8.5 on Lion 10.7.1 HDMI OUT doesn’t do below black / above white. Stuck in 0-255

Anybody got this working?

[Martin Smith]

[Alan Stonebridge] “From your description, it sounds like UltraStudio 3D is dumbly just accepting whatever default signal comes out of a device and expecting the user to know and match that in software.”

The calibration tech that was at my house yesterday thinks that it has to do with edid as well.

The iPad 2 clearly mirrors the “desktop” at 1080p. NOT 720p. Black magic doesn’t have an iPad 2 to test with (that’s what I was told) so they are only assuming.

I will try to have the iPad 2 output tested through an QuantumData 780 to see what’s going on here.

[Martin Smith]

I contacted support yesterday and they told me they were going to test their XBOX 360 to see if there was something wrong with Media Express but I have not heard back from them yet about their test.

Called back today and spoke to another person that told me that the iPad was outputting 720 at 60p only which in my opinion is wrong since when connected to a TV the signal shows 1080p. The resolution is also very sharp and detailed at 1080p on Plasma and LCD televisions. The captured 720p (via media express) feed is very soft and clearly lower resolution than what is seen when connecting the iPad directly to the TVs which tells me that it is not a 720p feed upscaled to 1080p.

I offered to send them (Blackmagic Design support) an iPad 2 with HDMI adapter to test on their own and was told that they can’t do that.

A tech is coming to calibrate my monitors tonight and I will have him look at the iPad feed to get some specs out. He has very good testing equipment.

My only guess is that the 1080p feed out of the iPad is non- standard… But then why is my pioneer KURO and Panasonic LCD recognize the feed @1080p?? Something is not right.

[Martin Smith]

We know it’s not because of copy-protection because it does work at 720p and the US3D hardware is clearly capable of capturing this feed. It has to be the driver or something.

I also tried to capture HDMI out of my Canon 5D to test 1080 capture presets and there was nothing detected. (I know the feed is useless but I did this for TESTING only)

My Matrox 02mini detects the 5D feed at 1080Psf. (I tried with the “Use 1080p not 10PsF” setting on and off and couldn’t get anything going. I really hope it’s the software.

I’m a little disappointed but I keep my hopes up that Blackmagic can figure this out. I did contact support this Friday but i haven’t got a response yet. I’m in the US.