BennoZ wrote:HDMI is not stupid, it carry’s tally’s and fully remote of the BMPCC’s. I think it’s the quality of your HDMI cables. 10 meters is very long for HDMI. I run all my Pockets on very long glassfiber HDMI cables from Amazon, works perfect.
HDMI IS STUPID.
Just because BMD put it on their cameras doesn’t mean it’s a sensible choice. They could have put SDI I/O on the cameras and switchers. It would have been a better choice as most people have their cameras too far away for regular HDMI cables to work. You can use fibre hdmi, but you need it to have copper lines in too for the return data / tally to work.
It’s a mess of their own making. Which results in lots of disappointment in their users as people have to discover that the hdmi cameras and switchers that BMD make cannot be linked with regular cables and BMD don’t even offer any suggestions of approved cables to use.
They could have used SDI for everything, or given the extreme 4sdi and 4 hdmi, but they didn’t.
No doubt they will release a new model again soon with the features of the extreme in a 1u rack with sdi I/O and we will all buy yet another new switcher off them again!!
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