Blackmagicdesign teranex mini, Installation And Operation Manual

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While it may appear like it’s an up or down conversion setting, what your converter is actually
doing is telling your source equipment to output Ultra HD or HD video so that your converter can
then output the source video’s native HD or Ultra HD resolution without up or down conversion.
To force your source video to HD, Ultra HD, or to let your converter automatically negotiate the
optimum resolution with your source equipment, simply use combinations of switches 1 and 2.
The combination settings are shown below.
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Auto - Switch 1 to OFF, Switch 2 to OFF.
Your converter will negotiate an optimum HD or Ultra HD resolution with your source
equipment based on its output capabilities.
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Force to HD - Switch 1 to OFF, Switch 2 to ON.
If your HDMI source equipment is capable of outputting HD and Ultra HD, your
converter will instruct the source equipment to output HD video.
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Force to Ultra HD - Switch 1 to ON, Switch 2 to OFF.
If your HDMI source equipment is capable of outputting HD and Ultra HD, your
converter will instruct the source to output Ultra HD video.
Blackmagic Teranex Setup Settings
The Teranex setup utility can change all the same settings that are available using the switches,
plus additional settings. You can access these settings by moving between the ‘video,’ ‘audio,’
‘configure,’ and ‘about’ tabs.
The ‘about’ and ‘configure’ tabs are detailed in the ‘changing settings’ section in this manual.
The ‘video’ tab for Teranex Mini - HDMI to SDI 12G contains the following settings.
Video Processing Menu
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Conversion
Click on the ‘conversion’ drop down menu to select conversion settings for your
SDI output. Setting this to ‘auto’ will negotiate an optimum HD or Ultra HD resolution
with your source equipment based on its output capabilities, while ‘Force HD’ and
‘Force Ultra HD’ will output HD and Ultra HD video respectively, regardless of the
HDMI input. However, SD will remain SD.
‚ Frame Rate
When enabled, the frame rate feature tells your converter to detect a video source
using 60 frames per second and automatically convert it to 59.94 frames per second.
Select or deselect the checkbox to enable or disable the feature.
This feature is helpful when you want to connect an HDMI source outputting 60 frames
per second to SDI equipment using a standard HD 59.94 frames per second format.
The ‘audio’ tab for Teranex Mini - HDMI to SDI 12G contains the following settings.
Audio Input Menu
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Set XLR Input / Set Audio input
This menu allows you to select between XLR and HDMI audio input. Selecting HDMI
will embed the HDMI audio into the SDI video output. Selecting ‘XLR’ lets you choose
between analog, AES/EBU, and timecode inputs, as well as which channels of your SDI
audio output you wish to embed these into. You can also adjust the gain on the
audio signal.
Selecting AES/EBU allows the additional option of checking ‘sample rate converter.’
When this is selected, the sample rate of your SDI audio output will be forced to 48kHz,
the correct sample rate for television.
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