I want to calibrate some monitors which are connected via HDMI but going through a blackmagic SDI to HDMI converter. I've used Davinci resolve as a patch generator before but it's a bit of a pain to setup and is only 10bit. Whats the simplest way I can feed a nice clean SDI feed to my monitors without having to add in multiple converters etc. I've tried the calibmate software a year or so and liked the concept of it but I just had constant crashes and issues, the software version doesn't seem to have been updated which is a bit of a shame.

TIA!

If the monitors are HDMI, why go thought a SDI to HDMI converter?
And did you mean to say Resolve is only 10-bit?

Steve

cinevation

Guess you mean Resolve is limited to 8-bit?
You can get round this DaVinic Resolve limitation with CS Patch Translator, software https://aulwa.com/aulwa which I am the author.

All patch generators take some configuration as they need to match the display and the target colour space, bit depth, range etc. If you are looking for recommendations, then I use the FSI BoIO and have also used the AJA ColourBox both very good.

Hope that helps.

cinevation

Which dedicated output card are you currently using?