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HVX200 and Panasonic BT-LH1700W: HD or not?
I’m connecting my camera to my brand new, above-mentioned monitor using the little cable that was supplied with the camera: on the camera side it has 14 pins; on the monitor side it splits into 3 (red, blue, green) RCA male plugs.
The only way I can see to connect it to the monitor is by using RCA to BNC adapters and then using the component video connectors on the back of the monitor.
The picture looks gorgeous. But I thought by using the component connectors the picture becomes SD. And that in order to see HD I’d need to use the SDI connector on the back of the monitor. And if my latter statement is correct, how would I connect the camera?
Thanks,
-Scott
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You’re viewing high-def analog component. HD signals can be sent via component, or also digitally (via HD-SDI or HDMI, etc). So you are seeing a high-def signal.
(Unless you’ve gone into the menus and told it to downconvert everything to 480/60i, which is an option that’s available to you).
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Thanks, Barry. That helps a lot. BTW, I ordered your HVX Boot Camp 1 & 2 DVD’s. They arrived a few days ago. Just need to find time to open them…
Best,
-Scott
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Glad to help, and thanks for ordering — I hope you find them useful! 🙂
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I had a question concerning the switched output of this monitor?
Feeding the 200 through the 1700 to a HD Deck and recording the HD signal, is this possible?You’re viewing high-def analog component. HD signals can be sent via component, or also digitally (via HD-SDI or HDMI, etc). So you are seeing a high-def signal.
(Unless you’ve gone into the menus and told it to downconvert everything to 480/60i, which is an option that’s available to you).
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[Stan Chang] “I had a question concerning the switched output of this monitor?
Feeding the 200 through the 1700 to a HD Deck and recording the HD signal, is this possible?”No, and yes. I think. I’m not an expert on the 1700 monitor, but I believe it doesn’t have component outputs, the only throughput is SDI, isn’t it? So if you hooked up via component from the HVX, I don’t think you could do it.
But yes, you can do it — just put the deck inbetween the camera and monitor. HVX -> deck -> monitor. That’d work. Or, alternately, use a component->HDSDI converter box like the AJA. That way you’d go HVX component -> AJA HDSDI -> monitor HD-SDI -> deck.
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Hey Barry,
Thank you, I just figured that the 1700W has an rgb component
input, so hooking up the HVX200 to the monitor, then taking the switch output loop from the monitor to feed my 1200A HDSDI input to the deck to record, should work. I just wanted to know if anyone works this way to get the footage to DVCProHD tape. I am doing some leg work to determine if I should get the P2 Player or the 200 camera,
I’m a post guy, trying to find a better workflow.
Thank you again,Stan
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[Stan Chang] “so hooking up the HVX200 to the monitor, then taking the switch output loop from the monitor to feed my 1200A HDSDI input to the deck to record, should work.”
Will it though? I don’t know if it’ll take a component input and output an SDI signal. Hopefully someone who uses the monitor will write in and let us know, but I wouldn’t just assume that it will.
The way to guarantee that it’d work is to get an AJA component->HDSDI converter. That way it’ll definitely work.
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[Barry Green] “No, and yes. I think. I’m not an expert on the 1700 monitor, but I believe it doesn’t have component outputs, the only throughput is SDI, isn’t it? So if you hooked up via component from the HVX, I don’t think you could do it.”
Actually, it does Barry, so his approach should work…
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the monitor will NOT do this at all – it only passes through the format put into it – it doesnt have an sdi encoder built in
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I wouldn’t expect it to transcode between component and SDI. It should pass through a component signal though…
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