Smart Videohub is perfect for broadcast, post or live production! Smart Videohub’s super compact size means it’s perfect for use in large broadcast systems or portable mini racks for live production where cameras, switchers, recording and monitors are all simply connected to Smart Videohub. Now you can route your video simply by looking at the video! Perfect for Portable Useīroadcast grade routing that’s easy to use! That lets you see your router connections as video on the built in LCD as you scroll the knob to select your routing. So you can simultaneously connect and route any combination of SD, HD and Ultra HD video.Īll the way up to high frame rate 2160p60, all on the same router at the same time! You also get revolutionary new visual routing. Smart Videohub includes the latest 6G-SDI or 12G-SDI technology depending on the model. The world’s first Ultra HD mixed format routers with built in video monitoring and spin knob router control. Introducing the exciting new Smart Videohub. The world’s first SD, HD and Ultra HD mixed format routers! Includes front panel button and spin knob routing, elegant machined metal front panel with LCD for routing display and video monitoring and remote Ethernet control. Supports multiple formats on the same router at the same time and will clean switch between multiple formats that match the reference frame rate when the switching is between the same video standard. Smart Videohub CleanSwitch supports 12 inputs and 12 outputs in virtually all SD, HD and Ultra HD video formats. This thing is incredibly well-worth pursuing.Blackmagic Design Smart Videohub CleanSwitch 12×12 (Ex Demo) Smart Videohub CleanSwitch 12×12 Compact 6G-SDI 12 x 12 video router with built in re-synchronizer in each inputĬompact 6G-SDI router with built in re-synchronizers on all inputs allows clean switching between all video sources of the same video standard, and can be used as 12 re-synchronizers for automatic re-timing of SDI feeds. The whole routing, monitoring and ATEM stability of our system is improved out of sight, if absolutely everything is genlocked. It is very useful having the 12x12 pre-selecting various non-synch inputs to the truck and forwarding the selected ones to the router and switcher, fully synchronised. Once this is done, I'll report back, and we should have an easy set of rules as to how to safely use the Cleanswitches as frame synchronisers. Testing will have to establish this, and BMD engineering emailed me this morning with a recommended configuration to try out. Also, all the other genlockable BMD gear we have is capable of accepting PAL 50i analogue black reference, so it would be reasonable to expect the Cleanswitch to do the same. Everything else in our system references to PAL 50i analogue black reference, though the truck runs 1080i50 normally. However, it is general practice for HD equipment to genlock to reference sources that are of the same frame rate as that of the signal being handled. Yes John, testing out all possible genlocking modes is something that will be done. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with the Cleanswitches? Have I missed something?Īpart from this question, it's a wonderful little box with lots of great uses, which are of much help to us in the work we do. It would be interesting to learn what the "rule book" for genlocking the 12x12 Cleanswitch actually is. Perhaps there is something intentional going on, where in the event of the 12x12 not sensing an acceptable reference input, it reverts automatically to referencing itself to input 1, so as to at least enable clean switching (as long as input 1 remains stable, itself). To my way of thinking, the 12x12's output timing should ALWAYS IGNORE the timing of its inputs altogether, and lock only to its genlock reference source input, otherwise an unstable input 1 source would destabilize all outputs of the 12x12 at once, with a devastating outcome for any production being run through it. (I suspect this arrangement causes some vertical phase delay of the 12x12 outputs compared to the other genlocked sources in our system, as ATEM PGM out is probably not phased too closely to the system reference.) We did a couple of international sports OBs this way and got away with it, with no observed issues. So to use it as a "box of synchronisers", we have to feed ATEM program SDI output into the 12x12 input 1, to provide a synch reference. I was surprised to find that our 12x12 appears to effectively genlock its outputs to follow the synch of its first (SDI) input and NOT that of the reference input provided (PAL analog black, in our case), which appears to have no genlocking effect, whether or not it's plugged into the 12x12. I've tried using our 12x12 Cleanswitch as "a box of frame synchronisers", so we can present its outputs as genlocked sources to our main router and ATEM switcher.
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