Black Magic Ultimatte 12 4K with an HDMI camera

[phongle123]

Hello, I watched the latest video regarding the Black Magic Ultimatte 12 4K and had to look it up. 

 

Not familiar at all with SDI. If someone were to try to hook this up on a camera w/HDMI. Would it be as simple as using one of Black Magic's Micro Converter HDMI to SDI 12G and it would work between the Camera w/HDMI connection and the BM Ultimatte 12 4K?

 

Thanks :)

[Kilrah]

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Yes, but you need to check what the camera is capable of putting out on its HDMI port (and ensure the converter supports that). It could be downsampled (e.g 4:2:0 instead of 4:2:2 or even better 4:4:4, or 8bit vs 10bit) which would likely affect the quality of the result. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Ive done simmilar setups and use the blacmagic hdmi to sdi converterters. There chep and work pretty well.

 

 

[Rak500]

On 6/30/2023 at 8:15 PM, Kilrah said:

-> Moved to Photography and Videography

 

Yes, but you need to check what the camera is capable of putting out on its HDMI port (and ensure the converter supports that). It could be downsampled (e.g 4:2:0 instead of 4:2:2 or even better 4:4:4, or 8bit vs 10bit) which would likely affect the quality of the result. 

Generally, HMDI Cameras outputs are almost systematically 10 bit 4:2:2 YUV out of generic cameras.

It's been a very long time that most consumer cameras can do that, simply because it's the most compatible format, and almost a standard nowadays with TVs released in the past few years.

Have a look at the smaller Ultimatte units, they are pretty good and one of them is HDMI in/out, so you won't even need a converter...