[Oli Trenouth]

I’ve experienced this problem with 6.6.1 and 6.6.2. (More so with 6.6.2)

Just updated to 6.6.4, so will see what happens on Monday.

Oli.

Oliver Trenouth
Media Developer / Editor
National Media Museum, UK

[Oli Trenouth]

Hi,

Just thought you’d appreciate some confirmation from someone who doesn’t work for BM :o)

I upgraded to the BM Multibridge Eclipse when they first started shipping, and have been happily editing using ProRes since then. Works great with SD and HD content.

Oli Trenouth
Media Developer
National Media Museum UK

[Oli Trenouth]

Bob,

Yes – I have an Eclipse. I’ve posted a few comments in the forum on it too ;o)

I haven’t used it for any major projects yet – its mainly been used for mastering existing projects. Havent had any major problems with it (with the exception of the analogue video levels, which appears to have been fixed in Decklink 6.6).

Oli

Oliver Trenouth
Media Developer / Editor
National Media Museum, UK

[Oli Trenouth]

Just a quick note: Blackmagic have posted Decklink v6.6 today.

I’ve installed it, and it appears to have fixed the reversed/inactive level faders issue. I can now calibrate the input video and chroma levels correctly.

Set to their default levels, I’m still getting very high video and chroma levels, but at least I can correct this now. I’ll run some ramp tests to make sure no highlight details are being lost, but everything looks good so far.

Also – this is a minor issue – but has anyone had any success setting the LED meters to “Stereo Spectrum Analyzer”? Changing the setting doesn’t seem to make any difference on the Mac. In the default 16-channel meter mode, I don’t seem to get anything appearing on the lower set of input meters. They work fine when I run the Eclipse as a standalone converter, but not when I’m working with FCP. Just thought I’d ask here before mentioning it to BM.

Regards,

Oli.

Oliver Trenouth
Media Developer / Editor
National Media Museum, UK

[Oli Trenouth]

Got my eclipse last week, and I’ve spotted a problem. :o(

I’m still waiting to hear from Blackmagic support, but wondered if any of you guys had the same issue:

I noticed that the video levels on all analogue inputs were very high (levels 85%-100% were being crushed).

I tried to calibrate the inputs using our house bars, and noticed that the video and chroma level sliders (in the DeckLink preferences pane) were reversed. (i.e. the video slider controlled the chroma level, and chroma controlled the video level). On the YUV input I can’t control chroma level at all, as the video level fader has no effect.

SDI/HDMI inputs, and all outputs are fine. it’s just the analogue levels on input.

Anyone here having a similar problem?