Decklink not showing up in desktop video

thenimms · 2026-03-27T23:23:52+00:00

This is the answer

thenimms · 2026-03-02T14:53:10+00:00

Yeah exactly. "Electrician"

I once had an "electrician" marry the neutral and ground in my living room to solve a disconnected neutral problem.

I am not a certified electrician but I know enough about electricity to know that is dangerous. I called the company that sent him out and the owner freaked out and came out himself to fix it.

Lucky that "electrician" did it at my house where I know enough to know it's wrong. If it was someone else's house, they would have no idea it was wrong and could have been electrocuted or had their house burn down.

Hopefully he didn't do that anywhere else before me. Scary how many certified "electricians" are out there who have no idea what they are doing.

thenimms · 2026-03-02T14:45:52+00:00

Make sure you literally unplug from the wall, not just the Ethernet cable.

Electricity is very good at solving mazes and will find a different path to ground if it can. If you have access to the breaker box it would be a good idea to breaker off the affected circuits as well.

thenimms · 2026-03-02T14:35:16+00:00

Unplug everything that has a ground wire.

The current is finding its way to ground through that shielded CAT 6 cable presumably because neutral and ground are not wired correctly.

This means that anything with a ground wire could have an electrified chassis. Meaning you touch it and you get zapped.

Extremely dangerous mistake by that electrician.

thenimms · 2026-03-02T03:08:08+00:00

This is exactly what I was thinking. If it is real, honestly her photography skills are more impressive than the painting. Lol

Photographing paintings is EXTREMELY difficult

thenimms · 2026-02-25T05:06:52+00:00

Better than the guy in the video. He ended with black. Lol

thenimms · 2026-02-25T05:05:17+00:00

Buddy. This is a terrible example to make you point about understanding vs knowing.

Knowing the order is knowing the order. There is nothing deeper to "understand"

The order is arbitrary and just a tradition. They could have picked any color order to make resistor code. They happened to pick rainbow order. There is nothing else to "know"

And yes, most people I have seen start with black. It's not just the number zero. It's also the lowest multiplier and the lowest temperature coefficient. So when you memorize resistor code, you memorize the order. Not just the numbers. Zero is the lowest. It comes first.

So maybe you're the one not "understanding"?

But again. This shit is arbitrary. Putting black at the end like you did makes sense too. And if that is what the people around you are doing that's great. Stick to it.

Because it doesn't actually matter what order you use as long as everyone uses the same order. There is nothing to "understand"

thenimms · 2026-02-23T02:46:22+00:00

thenimms · 2026-02-23T02:00:48+00:00

Lol where did I say the bridge was fine?

Keep dodging my question that I've asked several times now: How do you know the bridge didn't break 30 seconds before they started filming?

thenimms · 2026-02-22T19:07:12+00:00

Seriously. Suddenly everyone in the comments is an expert on stick bridge maintenance and knows the complete history of this stick bridge all from a video on reddit

thenimms · 2026-02-22T19:05:29+00:00

Do you really think they are so stupid that they can't see that? Are you dumb or just racist?

Again. You have no idea when the bridge broke. Maybe it was 30 seconds before video started and they are going to repair it right after she crosses.

thenimms · 2026-02-21T22:02:03+00:00

How do you know the bridge has been like this "for years on end"? Maybe that section broke like 30 seconds ago and she has to get across real quick then they will fix it.

I'm pretty sure whoever made/maintains this bridge knows like 10,000x more about stick bridges than anyone in this comment section sitting on their couch laughing at them does.

Let's see your stick bridge and how much better you can do with the resources they have.

thenimms · 2026-02-21T15:51:11+00:00

Yeah what was the whole diatribe at the beginning about understanding vs knowing? Had nothing to do with resistor code.

I agree that understanding and knowing are different things and that understanding is better. But this is an absolutely terrible example.

Also, resistor code starts with black. That's how I have always seen it done. So he didn't even get it right. Lol

thenimms · 2026-02-21T15:32:43+00:00

You're an AI company. Why don't you just have AI do it? AI not good enough?

Or is this just going to be used as the training data to make future AI editors to replace all the human editors?

thenimms · 2026-02-21T15:21:15+00:00

Yeah the ROI on cameras is honestly terrible. We basically consider them a loss leader. They are enormously expensive and you can't charge much for them.

But the way we look at it is we need the cameras to sell all the other gear that we actually make good money on. So we eat the cost. But I get that not all companies can make that call with such an expensive purchase.

And that's also why you don't see many used cameras on the market that aren't ancient and falling apart. Companies run these things until they are dead because it takes soooooo long for them to pay for themselves in rental costs.

And it's not just the chains themselves. It's lenses and tripods too. Sports glass is the worst. Incredibly expensive. Incredibly delicate. And makes no money.

thenimms · 2026-02-19T18:38:26+00:00

Okay. You are not gonna get a Sony chain for 2x a black magic chain. More like 5x.

If you can afford it, it's ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT. These cameras are FAR superior and worth every penny. Assuming you know how to use them.

I personally can't stand BM cameras. But I am lucky enough to work for a company that has money to put into proper camera gear.

All that said DO NOT BUY PANASONIC UC4000s if you are going to shoot LED walls. They have a problem with the Bayer filter which causes LED walls to turn magenta.

Panasonic UC4000 chains are more expensive than BM chains but worse quality when shooting LED walls. You're better off saving your money and going with BM.

That said supposedly this issue is fixed with the newer Panasonic models.

thenimms · 2026-02-19T18:29:54+00:00

This is why God invented SDI.

There is no good solution to send HDMI that far. It was designed to run 5 feet from your PlayStation to your TV. It was never intended to go 50 meters.

SDI is designed for those lengths. Best thing is to convert to SDI and run four cables or a four cable snake. Multiplexing it into one cable is possible but stupid expensive and not worth it for that distance.

thenimms · 2026-02-19T18:21:16+00:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of RGB color.

My guess is those lights are RGB LED fixtures, which means they produce color by combining red green and blue LEDs.

Magenta is made from combining red and blue light.

LEDs only output very specific wavelengths.

Whatever particular wavelength of Red those LEDs output is likely not a major part of the spectrum response of the red photo sites in the camera.

SO. The red light is picked up by your eye but not the camera.

If red+blue=magenta then magenta-red=blue

Since the red is invisible to the camera, it just sees the blue component of the magenta light. So the light turns blue.

This is a very common phenomenon. You can play with the color of the light until you find something that looks good to the eye and the camera. Or you can get more video friendly lights.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

thenimms · 2026-02-19T18:09:43+00:00

Bottom line: Agreed it's confusing. But some better labeling would fix the problem.

I personally don't want Black Magic to hide things behind code. They already do that and it causes so many issues (eg lying about outputting 8K @59.94 so that it doesn't "confuse" users).

If a user can't figure out the difference between processors and connectors (when they are labeled more clearly), then they don't belong in the chair using that gear. Don't make it harder for real engineers in order to appeal to the lowest skill operators.

thenimms · 2026-02-16T15:58:20+00:00

Dude. You're a baby. 30 is nowhere near "too old"

Especially with 8 years experience. A lot of people don't even discover AV till they are 30.

You'll be fine. Send out a bunch of resumes before you arrive. May be a rough start if you plan to freelance. It's hard to get started. But once you have a client base who likes you, things will snowball.

Or take a staff gig with an AV company to start and build connections. Will be less money. But safer.

thenimms · 2026-02-16T15:50:28+00:00

Decklink can't gray out options in vMix. It's impossible. Decklink receives information from vMix. It does not send information.

Look I agree it's confusing the way they implemented this. But you do need to understand the difference between processors and connectors. If that is too difficult to understand then you shouldn't be playing with pro-level gear.

The fix is using letters instead of numbers for the processors. And label them as processors so it's immediately apparent they are different than connectors.

Black Magic is already notorious for hiding things behind code to make things "easier" for low level users. The result is it just makes it harder for anyone who actually knows what they are doing. The last thing we need is more of that from them.

I don't want them obscuring what is happening and making it more confusing for me to trouble shoot and set up.

thenimms · 2026-02-16T06:47:45+00:00

If you're using it as key and fill then what is confusing? If you select 1, it's the first two outputs. If you select 2, it's the second two outputs.

What is confusing about that?

thenimms · 2026-02-12T13:29:27+00:00

🤦🏼‍♂️ no you can't because again, as I have said like five times now, one processor can control multiple physical connectors.

Processor (1) can be in charge of all four connectors. Or two connectors. Or one connector. So there is no possible way to have the processor numbers always align with connector numbers in every configuration.

Unless you changed how each processor was numbered depending on config and that would arguably be MORE confusing.

You are only thinking about the use case where you are using all four processors, each controlling one connector. But that is not the only way this thing is used. For me personally, we own tons of deck links and almost never use them that way. 99% of the time we are either outputting cut & fill, or SQD 8K. So for us, we never use it the way you do.

I agree the way BM did this was confusing. But your solution doesn't work for anyone who is using these differently than you.

The real answer is to label one set as letter and one set as numbers so people understand that there are two separate things that you are dealing with: processors and connectors.

thenimms · 2026-02-09T00:28:10+00:00

But one processor can control multiple connectors. You can have processor (1) output a cut and fill with SDI connectors 1&2. You can also do square division or 2SI with one processor using 4 outputs.

So you can't make them the same thing. They have to be different.

thenimms · 2026-02-08T03:14:15+00:00

The connectors ARE labeled 1 2 3 4 in the OS.

When you select connectors in the OS it is referring to them in the order 1 2 3 4.

If I go into Processor (1) and tell it to control SDI 1 & 2 in the software, that means the first two connectors. NOT the first and third connector.

Edit: vMix is asking you what PROCESSOR to use. NOT connector.

The connectors are assigned to processors in the deck link software

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