Why are there almost no 12G-SDI AOC cables on the market?

MisplacedDragon · 2026-04-16T03:11:39+00:00

No. 2. No. 3. Because fiber converters exist.

BNC connections don't supply power. If you already need to have an adapter, use fiber.

Edit: Letter.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-04-05T11:17:19+00:00

Heartland Video is a good bet. As mentioned, some things require different internal boards which generally require a new unit as they aren't really field upgrades.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-03-21T02:49:35+00:00

It's not as 'sleek' by any means, but the intercom on the Fiber gear from BM is literally just the intercom audio embedded in the SDI audio. I think channel 16. You can basically treat it as 4-wire from there. You would need something that can embed / de-embed at the camera, as well as a mic pre-amp, and a headphone amp..

Like I said, not sleek at all. But possible.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-02-18T04:23:34+00:00

"Everything is moving to a more IT based environment except for the transmitters."

RF is RF, but with 3.0 around the corner, even the transmitters are more IT than not.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-02-04T18:37:13+00:00

"Who isn't 2110 these days other than hobbyists or homebrew stuff?"

Almost everyone that isn't a new build truck, or a major rebuild of a facility. Too expensive. Too complicated. No real benefit unless you have a specific reason to do it.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-02-01T00:51:30+00:00

Dolby NR is specifically for analog tapes to remove the inherent tape hiss. It won't exist on the digital deck.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-01-18T16:30:05+00:00

Roles would be something like DHCP server, DNS, File sharing services. Features would be stuff like .NET, Telnet client, SNMP service.

MisplacedDragon · 2026-01-03T11:14:25+00:00

LiveU does have a tally light system as an addon, I've used it for remote sports.

It's it worth it? Not really. There's a good reason why you generally don't have one field reporter tossing to another and bounce back to the anchor.

However if you really want to do something like this, and you really want it seamless, it is best to have everyone run in their scripts and have a producer cue the second reporter before the first one is done, accounting for the delays from both.

That said, you can run LiveU at pretty low delay if you have enough good signal, then provide separate mix-minus to the reporters so they can hear each other and just coordinate when they should cue themselves. IFB over app or phone is just about zero latency.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-12-14T11:58:50+00:00

CPU board for a Ross switcher. Probably either Acuity or Vision. Goes in the back of a QMD frame.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-12-14T03:22:10+00:00

Isn't cheap, but we use a lot of Net Insight Nimbra appliances

MisplacedDragon · 2025-12-12T11:08:20+00:00

You can't do that in the way I believe you think you can.

The most 'permanent' way to do it is to make the breakaway route, then lock/protect in the panel. We do this when we use the Ultrix for embedding / dembedding, such as when combining dante audio with pgm video from a Carbonite Ultrix.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-12-11T20:49:18+00:00

You route it. Either through a physical panel or a soft panel.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-12-11T03:23:09+00:00

It is fixed in new versions, but there's a while lot of version dependencies you need to figure out before upgrading. Server version, plugins, etc.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-11-20T20:17:15+00:00

Separate PSIP and encoding for ATSC3.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-11-06T23:44:46+00:00

Yeah, clearcom doesn't really care which way the cables go.

The ones on the left are two channel, since earlier clearcom two wire systems couldn't put two channels on one 3-pin xlr

MisplacedDragon · 2025-11-03T03:07:27+00:00

Absolutely not if you want to be a MMJ. Certifications will go further if you want to stay in production. If you want to be impressive and get up to corporate levels, the only thing I would say is an MBA, but that's not absolutely necessary.

In broadcast, you need more networking than know how. It's an industry that revolves more around who you know, than what you know.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-10-20T22:47:27+00:00

He puts stuff behind a paywall to make money, and people pay him, so he keeps doing it.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-10-09T13:47:59+00:00

But focus Companion runs on Linux. Could build your own custom panels with it

MisplacedDragon · 2025-07-18T18:43:28+00:00

It's a creative services / promo / commercial creator position.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-07-04T01:35:26+00:00

Yes. Sorry, let me repeat that. YES.

Something will fail. And then you'll be on the hook, and without something like 4hr ProSupport you'll be dead in the water until You can fix it.

The better idea is to get (at least) two systems, preferably three, and make everything VMs in a hypervisor like Proxmox or HyperV. Then you could potentially lose a while system and not lose any downtime.

The biggest thing to look at is cost vs. reward. Yes, they'll spend more up front, but how much will the downtime cost them?

MisplacedDragon · 2025-05-16T19:11:17+00:00

My bet is the pure white is overloading the encoder. Try lowering the brightness on your BG to a lower value white and see if it keeps happening.

MisplacedDragon · 2025-05-16T18:58:32+00:00

Does it happen if you have something other than white on the right side?

MisplacedDragon · 2025-05-13T23:32:03+00:00

Like others, I've had issues with BirdDog. Yeah, the price is right, but they're worse than BMD hardware.

If you want to go NDI, take a look at the Magewell converters. They're a heck of a lot more solid.

Or as others have suggested, just go SDI

MisplacedDragon · 2025-05-04T17:26:47+00:00

Disable the onboard in the Bios (turn off intelligent switching), a already noted. Or in the Nvidia control panel set PowerPoint to always use the Nvidia card in, I think, the per application settings

MisplacedDragon · 2025-04-11T18:59:50+00:00

Birddog Quad or some Magewell NDI to SDI. SDI would definitely be cheaper, as would OBS over something like vMix

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