hey guys it's Lance from McVie audio and today I had a major breakthrough with this little guy
a GoPro black Hero 3 plus and this guy the aja or Asia h a5 HDMI to SDI this box is something
I've been looking for for really not a really long time but I went through a major pain in the butt
to get to this box first I tried what I want to do with the GoPro is have it go into my black magic a
Tim television studio switcher so that I can use GoPros for live webcasting live broadcasting and
basically you can only run these babies over about a 6-foot HDMI cable and then the signal
craps out I first tried an HDMI booster didn't work then I tried an HDMI to cat5 set of boxes
Wow that didn't work then I tried a box that's very similar to this called the a vu AVU II HDMI
to SDI converter that didn't work finally I saw a little clip on YouTube guys shows the Blackmagic
mini converter HDMI SDI the older one not the new 4k one that didn't work for his setup but then he
plugged in this baby and lo and behold the miracle happened it works this box seems to output more of
what you put into it my other box I believe only output it when I hook it up to my little hdmi TV
over here it would say 1080p at 60 Hertz this says 1080i at 60 Hertz which is basically what the ATM
needs to see is it broadcast in 1080i what's odd is you can take the GoPro plug it right in with a
short little HDMI cable a 3-footer it works so why it doesn't work when you try to extend it over a
long reach my Nikon worked with every single one of the other boxes I tried my d50 200 but this
little devil would not work these are not cheap by the way these are three hundred and thirty dollars
to three I got it at B&H great place to buy your stuff in New York City for three hundred and five
dollars I believe it was and when I first turned it on and had the camera on it didn't work but
when I set the camera to 1080 thirty frames per second turned the camera off then turned it back
on lo and behold it worked so I can now run two GoPros up to three hundred feet of cable into my
switcher I'm only using 50 foot I only tested it with a 50 foot SDI cable but it worked great the
only other problem with the 8m switcher is that you only have so many inputs you have six inputs
for our SDI and two are HDMI or you can have four HDMI inputs in two SDI it allows you to
switch two of the inputs to one or the other so if I want to use yet another GoPro I'm going to
have to get another box to convert it back to HDMI because I'm using all the other inputs for sony
ex1000 New York City and my first show with this working was Dave Matthews guitars Tim
Reynolds and it was a great show I posted two clips on YouTube at the iridium live
YouTube channel which you can check out I'll try and put a link up on the
video here so you can click on that and you'll see the camera that is the over
the drums which is an angle I switched to several times during the video is the GoPro
so there you have it the final solution of course you know when you get a GoPro that's
$300 and then you get this guy that's another three that's $600 or it could be more if you
get the blacks which are 400 and of course the brand-new black 4 came out right after
we bought the three plus but we're not doing 4k webcasting so it's only in 1080 and I finally
found my solution I will stand behind this box and tell you that yes you can extend your GoPro
over 50 to 300 feet of SDI cable with this box and go into an ATM switcher a TEM television
switcher by Blackmagic some of the other boxes worked with the GoPro going right into my HDTV
but it would not work going into the ATM switch or the ATM switcher seems to be a lot more finicky
but anyway that's the end of the video Asia or aja model he5 this is the baby it does the job
thank you Asia thank you so much I will be buying another one and that wraps it up for
another McVie audio video and please subscribe to my channel Asia Asia Asia Asia buy it it works