[Steven Schoonover]

Is you reference signal only NTSC? Black magic mentioned that for HD, your reference had to match resolution and frame rate. Since my last post, I did more testing of the video hub with my DVM A500. Of course BM tested the video hub with their DVM and sent the unit back with “no problems.” I sent signals from a friend’s DVM A500 and the same issues occurred. Looking at the signal through a HDSDI scope (not ultrascope), I did notice some noise in the signal path but not the same as through the video hub. Sony did make at least two different SDI output cards for the DVM, so the conclusion that I made is that the problem is in the SDI output of my deck. Since this issue is only on the output of the DVM, I manually patch that cable.

As for the problem of one input or output not working on the video hub. This issue seems to be random and temporary at least in my case. Just try a new port on the video hub.

The Black Magic Video Hub is a convenient headache.

[Steven Schoonover]

Eric I am having the same problem. I was sending a DVW A500 signal through a new videohub and received a similar signal to the one that you describe. I took the videohub out of the path and everything works. So I patched the signal to different inputs of the videohub and seems to work. The problem is not consistent and BMD insist that it is my deck. So I connected my ultrascope to the deck and I get the problem which I never had a problem with the deck’s signal through the ultrascope before.
If I run a cable from the deck to any of the three FCP suites everything looks great. My sony deck seems to hate Blackmagic and I am stuck