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My epic-x let me down

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Paulo Emílio

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Hello everyone, today and yesterday in a very important job, my epic-x let me down. I'm having many problems with monitoring. I have two monitors, a panasonic 17 "sdi and a smaler tvlogic. Monitoring works at random, when the camera wants. I've tried all kinds of configuration. I've done firmware update, and nothing ..... By the way it was my old red one that saved the day.
 
Any more details? Which build were you on/updating too?
 
panasonic monitors generally have issues with taking in a TRUE P signal, they are rock solid with PSF. some have the problem some don't. but generally as far as I've seen panny's don't like TRUE P.

the TV logic however should be able to take in everything. have you tried both hdmi and hd sdi? I'd try to look for a smallhd and see if it does the same issue. if it does, something might be wrong with your hdsdi. since it's placed where it is, without the use of bnc elbows, you can end up putting a lot of torque on the connection damaging it. that might be a leading cause if you still have issues.
 
My TVlogic 5.6" works fine with HD-SDI but on HDMI it takes 20 seconds to get a signal from Scarlet and I assume Epic. Are you using HDMI?
 
Do you have "SYNC IN" into the camera, i.e a genlock signal going in via a lockit box or similar and the GPIO settings set to Genlock ? I would suggest you lose the sync in immediately. We had the same problem that we thought was monitoring and the camera was skipping frames without reporting such. Let me know how you go
 
Simon N said:
Do you have "SYNC IN" into the camera, i.e a genlock signal going in via a lockit box or similar and the GPIO settings set to Genlock ? I would suggest you lose the sync in immediately. We had the same problem that we thought was monitoring and the camera was skipping frames without reporting such. Let me know how you go
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Good first advice!
 
I have had problems with monitoring for years... with my 435's, alexas, canons, red's... The camera is usually the last thing to blame.

I'd be looking at the monitors and cables, joiners, bnc's well before I start saying my EPIC has let me down.
 
There is some merit to the "skip external sync/genlock" startingpoint. Nothing neccesarily wrong with the camera. Lockitboxes could be the culprit. But that's where I'd have started.

Remember Phillip Bloom and his oddities anyone?
 
Gunleik Groven said:
There is some merit to the "skip external sync/genlock" startingpoint. Nothing neccesarily wrong with the camera. Lockitboxes could be the culprit. But that's where I'd have started.

Remember Phillip Bloom and his oddities anyone?
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I have experienced first hand with 3 cameras the genlock issue, the 4th camera was OK so it's not across the board.
 
Actually, I would have liked to see this discussed a bit more freely...

We just stopped Genlock'ing ours, but that is not an advice for all occations...
 
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