Burk Webb
January 23rd, 2011, 03:39 PM
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this.
Just did a shoot with a 7D. We were splitting the HDMI signal with a Small HD HDMI splitter box and feeding a HDMI to SDI converter box as well as a Small HD DP1. The cable out of the camera to the HDMI splitter was about 2 feet, The DP1 cable length was probably 2 feet, the SDI converter cable was probably 25 feet.
When I tested it everything worked fine, but (of course) on the day the camera was not turning on and I was getting a flashing dead battery warning on the top lcd screen. Tried a few different (fully charged) batteries, same thing. Plugged the camera straight into the DP1 and everything fired up as normal. Huh.
The HDMI splitter was supposed to work without power but we got a power supply for it and that solved the issue. It was kind of freaking me out because I never would have guessed that an HDMI issue would manifest itself in this way. I figured the camera would turn on but not send the signal out the HDMI port. I never would have guessed that the camera would just stop responding, giving an incorrect dead battery warning.
I had not heard of this before but our DIT said that she had seen this happen on another shoot.
Anybody had this happen to them? Anybody know of a bomb proof HDMI splitter?
Just did a shoot with a 7D. We were splitting the HDMI signal with a Small HD HDMI splitter box and feeding a HDMI to SDI converter box as well as a Small HD DP1. The cable out of the camera to the HDMI splitter was about 2 feet, The DP1 cable length was probably 2 feet, the SDI converter cable was probably 25 feet.
When I tested it everything worked fine, but (of course) on the day the camera was not turning on and I was getting a flashing dead battery warning on the top lcd screen. Tried a few different (fully charged) batteries, same thing. Plugged the camera straight into the DP1 and everything fired up as normal. Huh.
The HDMI splitter was supposed to work without power but we got a power supply for it and that solved the issue. It was kind of freaking me out because I never would have guessed that an HDMI issue would manifest itself in this way. I figured the camera would turn on but not send the signal out the HDMI port. I never would have guessed that the camera would just stop responding, giving an incorrect dead battery warning.
I had not heard of this before but our DIT said that she had seen this happen on another shoot.
Anybody had this happen to them? Anybody know of a bomb proof HDMI splitter?