Wed Mar 16, 2016 4:50 pm
With a Canon, the shooting resolution does not always equal the camera's output resolution, etc. Hook your camera up to a TV monitor and turn it on, you will see the output resolution on the top cornner of the monitor, or press "info" on the TV remote to see the signal setting. Check your camera HDMI setting in the menus also. Also are you using a new high res. HDMI cable, a low bandwidth cable could cause issues also. If your camera is a 5D Mark 3, then it should output a 1920x1080 interlaced signal, if HDMI settings are correct. Also turn off HDMI control, this is to control camera with TV remote.
Some Canon cameras did not output full resolution setting, so auto scaling was developed to rescale the signal back to what the monitor was looking for to fill the screen. The Video Assist does not do auto scaling. What you see is what the camera is outputting (an interlaced 2/3 pull down signal).
The latest firmware is available from BM Support site. You can download Ver1.2 ( latest), has only been one update so far. Once downloaded, connect VA to your computer and run the update utility in the firmware (once it is installed on your computer), and it will tell you if VA is UHD to date, or load the Ver 1.2 firmware. This is a nice update, but does not address image scaling issues.
Last edited by
Denny Smith on Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Denny Smith
SHA Productions