Rob Alexander
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The Dell has HDMI in doesn’t it? and I read somewhere that it even comes with a cable. So you should be able to hook it up directly HDMI from the multibridge to the monitor. Or component analogue.
I’d be interested to hear what you think about the picture quality – I’m considering getting one as a preview monitor.
Cheers
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Anders,
regarding the slowing down, does your system use blackmagic or aja hardware?
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pull out the front panel and on the row of switches that are revealed you’ll see a switch labelled “out ref”, set it “input video”
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Do the decklink pros use a different version of the driver?
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Perhaps you could check whether you’re using the same version of the decklink driver on all the systems or whether the ones that aren’t displaying slowdowns are a different (older) version?
I posted a question over on the blackmagic forum to see whether there are any updates from blackmagic but haven’t had a reply yet.
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Well not exactly. It appears that a lot of blackmagic users (including myself) are experiencing slow down issues on their Final Cut systems. There’s a thread over on the blackmagic forum and they say they’re looking at it. Are you using the latest drivers? One workaround I’ve found (which isn’t great but does make life a little more bearable) is to close down the sequence you’re working on and then reopen it when the machine slows down.
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Are you using a blackmagic card by any chance?
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Is the same true for multibridge pro?
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Hi Shirlyn,
sounds most like you’ve inadvertently turned off your video output from final cut. Check that view>external video>all frames is ticked (cmd-F12), and that view>video playback is set to the blackmagic output which matches your media.
Hope this helps,
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A small correction Stephen. PAL DV is indeed lower field first (which is an idiosyncracy as the PAL standard is upper field first), however all flavours of NTSC are also lower field first.
The advice is sound though – check the field order.
Rob