Ken Sachs Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Has anyone had any luck getting Watchout to play through an ATEM switcher? Atem switcher wants to see interlaced video. Video card we have is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 750. Setting is 1080i 30 hertz out. The Watchout splash screen shows up, but as soon as I put computer online... screen goes black. Our other displays have eyefinity cards and the ATEM switcher wouldnt even recognize the computer. If someone has gotten this to work... please let me know how and what graphic card you have! Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Ken, I'll suggest you look into this recent thread: http://forum.dataton.com/topic/1610-need-a-solution-for-hd-sdi-output/ WATCHOUT is inherently a progressive system by design ie I don't think you can output an interlaced signal from your graphics card and expect WATCHOUT output to work. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orfischer Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hi, The HD version of the ATEM switcher is very limiting. Though their 4k switcher can also take progressive signals, and it is way more flexible than their 1st generation. The price difference is not so bad: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964109-REG/blackmagic_design_atemprodstud_4k_atem_production_studio_4k.html Good luck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted March 12, 2015 Moderator Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 As Jonas says, no interlaced output from WATCHOUT. The reason you see the logo screen on startup, logo screen is shown in GDI mode until a show is loaded and the progressive only restriction is not yet in effect. Show load forces the switch to DirectX 3D and the progressive only restriction then goes into effect. Displays go black because your switcher is unable to accept the progressive signal it is receiving. Other customers encountering this, inserted scalars on each channel - to externally convert progressive to interlaced - $$$ ouch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackboyd Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 You can set the ATEM to 720p to solve your interlacing challenge. Framerate is a different story... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orfischer Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 We had to convert the signal from WO through a Panasonic switcher and than output it back to black magic. In the process we tried to use 4 different video processors to convert the signal (including analog way, Kramer, and more), without luck. When we run it through a Panasonic video switcher, it worked right away. We have reason to assume that blackmagic "like" to work with "clean" broadcast signals. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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