Premium Members Mark Schlicher Posted June 9, 2011 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 Need a Decimator 2. Possibly an AJA HA5 also (HDMI to HD-SDI). Thought I'd check here first before buying new. Thanks! mark (at) sunporchmedia (d0t) com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Mark Schlicher Posted June 23, 2011 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Checking in one more time on this. Decimator 2 (HD-SDI-->HDMI & SD)? AJA Hi5 (HDMI-->HD-SDI)? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Mark Schlicher Posted June 28, 2011 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Bump-still looking for these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Christopher T. Paul- SOC Posted June 29, 2011 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Hey Mark, I have a decimator for sale, but looking at it, I don't see a "2" anywhere on it. I haven't been keeping up with them... is there a difference, and would you be interested in a "1"? CP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Mark Schlicher Posted June 29, 2011 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Hi, Chris, The version 2 adds an HDMI output to the SD output. I have a particular application (wireless HDMI video transmission) that requires me to have a "2". If you have an HDMI output on your unit I'm interested! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted June 30, 2011 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Just to clarify--the original Decimator is square, the 2 is rectangular. Original won't have a "1" on it (sort of obviously...!). And as Mark noted, the 2 has HDMI output, as well as other internal features like graticules. For those considering buying a 1, please note that the primary reason for the 2nd generation version was that the manufacturer of the 1st gen board went out of business, so if a used 1 seems like a good deal, consider that there are limited replacement boards available and eventually there won't be a repair path. The savings over a new 2nd gen are probably not worth it. Some who sent their gen 1's in for repair recently ended up with brand new 2's for this reason. Not to say that will continue to happen. Also for those trying to buy 2's at the moment--there is a supply issue and the shipments are crawling in slowly at present. I'm about to sell the last of mine and the other dealers in town have been out of them for a week or so. Stay tuned for the MD-DUCC about to come on the market--an up/down/cross converter that has some interesting possibilities, although probably not Steadicam-related. Unfortunately it does not convert HDMI to HD-SDI as I was hoping, as a replacement for the cantankerous Blackmagics for DSLR and now FS-100 applications. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Mark Schlicher Posted June 30, 2011 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Hey, Charles, What do you think of the AJA HA-5 as an alternative to the Blackmagic box for HDMI to HD-SDI? And, oh yeah everyone...it's the HA-5 I've been looking for all along. Hi-5 is another HD-SDI to HDMI box. Oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted June 30, 2011 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 The HA5 can't handle the signal out of the 5D properly (when it switches from HD to SD). I imagine it does better with the 7D and 1D, not sure about the Rebel but I imagine issues there too. Basically not really worth it as it can't accommodate the range of Canons, and you never know when you might need to use it with one of the troublesome ones. I use the Blackmagic as well as my Nanoflash for HD-SDI conversion. The Nano is obviously overkill and there's no point in using it for recording with DSLR's, but it is great that it cross converts between HD-SDI and HDMI in both directions, with both outputs active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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