User's Manual

While it may appear like it’s an up or down conversion setting, what your converter is actually
doing is telling your source equipment to output Ultra HD or HD video so that your converter
can then output the source video’s native HD or Ultra HD resolution without up or
downconversion.
To force your source video to HD, Ultra HD, or to let your converter automatically negotiate the
optimum resolution with your source equipment, simply use combinations of switches 1 and 2.
The combination settings are shown below.
 Auto – Switch 1 to OFF, Switch 2 to OFF.
Your converter will negotiate an optimum HD or Ultra HD resolution with your source
equipment based on its output capabilities.
 Force to HD – Switch 1 to OFF, Switch 2 to ON.
If your HDMI source equipment is capable of outputting HD and Ultra HD, your
converter will instruct the source equipment to output HD video.
 Force to Ultra HD – Switch 1 to ON, Switch 2 to OFF.
If your HDMI source equipment is capable of outputting HD and Ultra HD, your
converter will instruct the source to output Ultra HD video.
Blackmagic Teranex Setup Settings
The Teranex setup utility can change all the same settings that are available using the switches,
plus additional settings. You can access these settings by moving between the ‘video,’ ‘audio,’
‘configure,’ and ‘about’ tabs.
The ‘about’ and ‘configure’ tabs are detailed in the ‘changing settings’ section in this manual.
The ‘video’ tab for Teranex Mini – HDMI to SDI 12G contains the following settings.
Video Processing Menu
Conversion
Click on the ‘conversion’ drop down menu to select conversion settings for your SDIoutput.
Setting this to ‘auto’ will negotiate an optimum HD or Ultra HD resolution with your source
equipment based on its output capabilities, while ‘ForceHD’ and ‘Force Ultra HD’ will output
HD and Ultra HD video respectively, regardless of the HDMI input. However, SD will remain SD.
Frame Rate
This is for 1080p60 to 1080i59.94 conversion only. When enabled, the frame rate feature tells
your converter to detect a 1080p video source using 60 frames per second and automatically
convert it to 1080i at 59.94 frames per second. Select or deselect the checkbox to enable or
disable the feature.
This feature is helpful when you want to connect an HDMI source outputting 1080p at 60 frames
per second to SDI equipment using a standard 1080i 59.94 frames per second format.
3G Output
This lets you change the 3G-SDI output standard to maintain compatibility with equipment that
can only receive level A or level B 3G-SDI video. Level B is the default setting. These settings
only apply when outputting 3G-SDI video.
The ‘audio’ tab for Teranex Mini – HDMI to SDI 12G contains the following settings.
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