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confused…
which seems to be easy these day’s. We’re going to add FCP5 [currently running FCP4.5] to our 2004 version G5 dual 2.0Ghz with stock [graphics card] everything. We’ve added a internal 7200rpm 160 gig SATA drive with 2.5 gig ram…
Plan on purchasing Sony’s HVR-Z1U along with a HVR-M10U HDV deck — monitor Sony LMD171WS [widescreen]. Seems like a no brainer if you want to cut a little HDV, right — wrong!
I’ve been referred here, seems I won’t be able to monitor in RT what I’m doing on a external monitor. Evidently Blackmagic has what I need, a video card and another piece of hardware to interface between the card (the card goes in the G5) and the Sony LMD171WS monitor. Have I got that right?
Would one of you folks point me to a workflow diagram, that I can understand? Defining how I can accomplish what I need to do, edit HDV… I just need to know what card and interface unit I need and how it connects. Is there a block diagram available for the type of editing I plan [HDV] with the system I currently have? A FW800 RAID will be in the offing relatively soon.
I’ve got 2 jobs waiting…
Thank you very much
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Hi David,
[David Healy] “I’ve been referred here, seems I won’t be able to monitor in RT what I’m doing on a external monitor.”
DeckLink cards will enable you to monitor in RT what you are doing on an external monitor. The one exception to this is that you cannot monitor HDV video that you are capturing via Firewire and we have documented that in a support note named HDV capture preview missing in Final Cut Pro HD 5.0
[David Healy] “Evidently Blackmagic has what I need, a video card and another piece of hardware to interface between the card (the card goes in the G5) and the Sony LMD171WS monitor. Have I got that right?”
This sounds as though someone is suggesting that you use the DeckLink capture card along with the external HDLink convertor which you can find at the HDLink product page. The HDLink will take the uncompressed SDI video signal from the DeckLink card and convert it to DVI-D which you can then connect to the Sony LMD171WS.
The Sony LMD171WS monitor has a resolution of 1280 X 768 pixels. Unless you are working in HDTV720p (1280 x 720), this display will not be big enough for your needs. If you are working in HDTV1080 (1920 x 180), you will need a different display to support the higher resolution.
As a general rule, you will need a 23″ display as many 23″ displays support 1920 x 1200 which is big enough to display every pixel in a 1920 x 1080 image. I know Sony have had such screens in the past but I can’t find one that supports 1920 x 1080 on their site at the moment. Sony, HP and Apple all make 1920 x 1200 LCD displays with DVI-D input which would be suitable for this work.
Good luck 🙂
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
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