[Maurice Jansen]

grin

In all newer OB’s the OB’s chief vision engineer has it’s own place with control of everything on just one PC (and of coarse a backup).
if it’s a SPG all the GLUE the mixer or the router, it’s controlled on 1 workstation.
Even our smallest mickey mouse OBvan (just 6camerea and 4 VTR’s) has a central PC controlling everything. mostly all FS’s are racked on top of each other or at least in each other neighbourhood. what better overview can you get.(never forget your white tape and sharpie) and for fast panic action you will always change the wrong FS on a remote because your colleague had just checked something on a other one which you screw up right away. 😉

by the way in a OB i would never use a bulky unit like this for ALL framesynchronising or format conversion. you can press 36 framesynchronizer’s/standard convertors in 4RU these day’s.
although a few for the more exotic’s feed’s are alway’s nice.

a better thing in OB design is administration tools or integration tools that make you organize a OB. controlling thing’s is one but knowing where signals are flowing is two. hardware remote’s will not help IMO.

this sound’s like i don’t like these kind of product’s but that’s not true i love them but you have to use them for the right propose. which is interfacing the unforeseen

greet
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

i tried your settings

and they give me a alpha channel.
you have to do what tim says
use render to pictureviewer

greet
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

welcome in the minefield of the render setting’s of C4D 😉
one little unconvenience is that you can check the alpha button
for format’s that do not support this.
you check you think you are good but it won’t work.
please tel us more about your workflow and your output format.

grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

well first

you find the manual here
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/manuals/eng/MiniConverterManual.pdf

and yes this does not help you. because the manual is well actually bad.

leave proccessing of put SMPTE/betacam to SMPTE.
and if your in PAL land switch setup to 0.0IRE

install the utility software andplay with that. all sider should be on unity in a good situation.

grt
maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

wow

that’s bin a while.
i have looked on my.barco.com for it.
and if you take your time you will find it.
latest version
Viewscape Toolset (01.02.00.00)
of coarse you have to make a account.

grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

well

if you find something that works on good old RS232 and match your spec’s you could use a Nport from MOXA for the IPpart. i guess this make your surge more easy

grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

i guess to simple from me!
try to precompose the layer you want to mask
grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

always nice to find boxes that fix the hole’s between product’s
never heard of them but looks OK

other option is to look at software that use a audiochannel for TC
something like virtualVTR or some tools made by
videotoolshed. (they have a lot of tiny timecode softwaretools)

great
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

we need more info

we don’t know if your doing off-line
on-line with seperate colorgrading
full on-line
and what your audience is.

grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

hi Doug

you already found the problem by your self.
the mixer can only handle genlocked/timed signals.
indeed DVD and other consumersource’s need a extra treatment.
what you need are or DVD players that can genlock (but these are hard to find and often not completly timeable) or you have to found some framesynchronizers.(often wrongly called TBC’s). you can find these in all kind’s of pricetag’s.

by the way find your manual at

https://www.echolab.com/pages/manuals.html

grt
Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!