I got one of those Porta HDMI to Component, but so far can’t get Visual Cortex to sync to it. I seem to have the same results as @nazz
Would you mind explaining how did you get it to work?
As for my previous experience with getting some colour out of composite (as discussed above with @48HourVideo), it seems it might have been the tv I was using, that somehow manages to decode some colours from the composite coming through the Visual Cortex. The video grabber I’m now using to monitor and record on a laptop only gives me black and white, as expected.
I ended up purchasing a blackmagic intensity shuttle. I use rca in the ypbpr. You can download the the driver and most recent software through the blackmagic site. Adjust the settings in the software to match your settings (pixel aspect ratio) in whichever video program you are using.
Thanks for the reply. Which one did you get, Thunderbolt or USB-3? My MacBook uses USB-C, so I will need an adapter. Also, the Intensity Shuttle doesn’t seem to support Mac OS 10.12 (or Adobe Premiere CS6), and I hate upgrading the OS. All considered, it seems a bit too much (around 250€ including adapter), just so I can get colours into the Visual Cortex. For that money, I rather but another LZX module. But I’ll keep it in mind.
In the video you linked, they guy uses Windows… Does it work very much the same in Mac? The other video is cool, I really like that Visual Cortex series, but I would love to see him getting composite from a new MacBook Pro. He just connects his DVD-player to the Cortex and it just works… I would also love to know what DVD player is that, with composite out. Maybe it’ll be cheaper just to buy a DVD-player like that.
Ok, thanks. Noted. That would cost me € 315 (including adapter and Thunderbolt 2 cable) here in Germany. On the seller’s page I see that it supports Mac OS 10.6 and above, so that’s a relief. Still, at the moment I think I’ll prefer to buy another LZX for that money. But I’ll definitively think about it.
I bough the Thunderbolt Intensity Shuttle, connected via thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter to MBP 2018. I can see the Intensity Shuttle from the Mac (it appears in Desktop Video software), but I can’t output to my Visual Cortex as the Intensity Shuttle just won’t appear as a second (or third) display no matter what I do. Any ideas, friends?
Ok, I guess this wasn’t clear. It’s easy enough. I’ll explain for other users and then ask my questions.
I’ll explain. You have to install Black Syphon. I also installed Syphon. I’m not sure if that mattered, but what the heck!
Then you have to connect the Blackmagic Thunderbolt Intensity Shuttle and launch Black Syphon and Lumen. Choose Lumen for the video stream and Lumen-Main Output. For Video output choose NTSC, and now you are good to go.
The only thing is that my colors are off. How do we set the Visual Cortex to have all the colors correct.
Also, ok, lovely, great, brilliant, ace! But how can we, say play a youtube video to Black Syphon?
hmm not sure if there is a browser plugin for syphon, but I’ve not looked recently
I do video playback to lumen via either processing or praxis_live into syphon
both are really simple java programming environments & praxis is to some extent a visual drag and drop environment - quite easy to knock up a feedback mixer with camera input, video playback and the syphon from lumen being mixed and effected - with the mixing and effects modulated by other objects or midi cc inputs
Question on the output encoder of the visual cortex does RGB to HDMI need just a converter?
On the Input decoder of the visual cortex , what would be a proper hdmi to rgb scaler to 480i (windows media player to visual cortex )
(are there other options that are known?)
I am interested in using Windows media player video hdmi to rgb in through the visual cortex and rgb to hdmi out to the projector ( mainly curious about conversion and scaler)
@scolopendra I’m thinking of grabbing one of these to feed NTSC to Vidiot from my Mac’s second monitor port. Did your experience remain positive? Do you still use the “Universal Premium Quality” Scaler?
I haven’t had any problems when using that HDMI-to-Component converter with my Mac, although I haven’t been doing much of that lately. Need to get back to that!
I’ve mostly been trying to use it with iPad, Andor-1, and Waaave Pool recently, with varying amounts of frustration and ‘loss of sync’ issues. Some of that is probably user error- not sure my stuff is in the optimum format for Andor-1, and the flash drive I had been using with it was probably too slow. I just got a much better flash drive, but haven’t tried it yet- I’ll update this thread when I figure out how many of my problems are self-inflicted…
A friend got one just like mine, and he’s been using it to go from a Windows laptop to Cortex without any issues.
Hello. I bought this same unit. What are you plugging into the HDMI input? I can’t make mine work and only getting a red light on my mixers sync indicator. I’m connecting my Mac Pro HDMI output into the HDMI in on the Porta box. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Is this a Panasonic MX mixer you are connecting to? Do you have other devices you could try to directly like display?
Personally on my Panasonic MX-10 and AVE5 I’ve never managed to get an HDMI-analog box to work without passing the signal though a TBC(a Panasonic DVDR recorder in my case) first. They always display in monochrome otherwise.
