Monitoring on Apple Cinema Display 23???

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

Is this working anywhere? I´m failing on all my monitoring options except the RED lcd here:

RED HDMI -> DVI adaptor to Cinemadisplay 23: no signal, LED on the display blinks a few times.

RED preview out to HDSDI Black Magic Decklink HD Extreme (setting:HDTV 720p 50): no signal, some flicker, (Black Magic sw version 6.6.2)

RED HDMI -> Consumer HDMI 720 tv: no signal

(I know how to switch outputs on the RED.;-) (And I know that the consumer tv thing is not really working) (yet?)

All the best,

Jochen

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

It's workis , all situations that you put is wotking ,

 

[Keith Neff]

Try this

Try this

We had the same problem with consumer TV plasmas. It is an odd rate on the output and our HD/IO box wouldn't lock either. Ended up on a SXGA computer monitor that would lock to it.

 

[nick allsop]

have you managed yet to get a signal to your apple display?

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I'm running fine from SDI>BM HD Link>Dell 24" DVI

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

No, its not working here: HDMI -> DVI -> Apple Cinema 23 :
Blinking LED on the Cinema display, black screen.

Jochen

 

[Uli Plank]

You know that the ACD is doing 60 Hz only, do you?

Regards,

Uli

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

Try with another monitor , not apple , but apple is working , not full siye picter but is is ok.

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

Aslo i am in Munich Aerport now , waiting for plain , we can check it here ,,, and where is on german keybourd email simbol can not found it

 

[Shawn Nelson]

Yesterday I tried this and got HD-SDI to BM to Apple 23" CD and it worked. But, could not get HDMI to DVI to Apple, it just blinked and wouldn't turn on. Has anyone gotten the HDMI out into the 23" Apple CD?

 

[Shawn Nelson]

Oh, and when I did get the 23" Apple to show my the output from the Blackmagic, it was only a cropped 720p in the center of the display. Any idea how to get the image scaled up to the full display?

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I believe it wants to do a 1 to 1 pixel, for pixel display, so that means that if the maximum resolution of the monitor is say 1920x1200, it will fill the true pixels of the image, rather than blowing it up to fit the screen. It's the same when I send it to my Dell 24" from the HDLink. Or are you referring to the BM capture cards?

 

[wshultz]

I'm going directly to the Dell 24" with HDMI to DVI. I don't need the BM HDlink. The Dell blows up full screen. Haven't tried the Apple yet.

 

[Steve Sherrick]

This is from Graeme

"720p footage is left sitting in the middle of the display with a large black area surrounding it. From an accuracy point of view, this is totally correct as the HD is mapped pixel for pixel, but it would be nice to be able to ask the HDLink to "fit-to-frame" for presentation purposes. If you only need 720p HD, it therefore might make more sense to buy the 20" Cinema Display instead for an even more cost effective approach to HD monitoring"

So if you are getting 720 preview to fill the screen there is a blowup of some kind happening to fit the larger, high pixel screens.

In Black Magic Prefs you can tell it to fill the screen, but it won't be 1:1

 

[Joel Kaye]

In Black Magic Prefs you can tell it to fill the screen, but it won't be 1:1

Right, and the Dell will do it's own blowup unless you override that and tell it to display 1:1. That's what I've always done because I really didn't like the blowup that the monitor does. Which is why I'm going to grab one of those 1708s for on set monitoring.

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Yeah, the Dell 1708 would work out fine. The image will fill up the screen nicely. I don't like the blowups either, that's why I recommend keeping at 1:1.

 

[Stuart English]

Monitors

Monitors

I've had good luck with the LG Flatron f-Engine series....such as L206WTQ-BF etc... they do expand to fill the 1680 x 1050 pixel screen, but it is a 16:9 aspect panel.

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

I will test it tomorow , We get HDMI to DVI and i will get it tomorow , i will post about it.

 

[Jeff Brown]

Hi chaps,

Can I just confirm that the SDI/HDMI outputs are only live in build 14? I'm on 13 and going SDI - HDLINK - DELL24" gives me nothing. I'm in PAL land so have tried switching between 50hz and 59hz in camera.

So do I need build 14 or is it something else?

Cheers

Jeff Brown

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[Uli Plank]

…they do expand to fill the 1680 x 1050 pixel screen, but it is a 16:9 aspect panel.

Sorry, Stuart, that's 16:10 like any other computer screen. If it fills, there must be some non-square scaling going on.

Regards,

Uli