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1080 preview from FCPro to plasma
I posted this earlier in the High-End HD forum. May have been the wrong place
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You need a video capture card to monitor 1080i. Period.
Video cards are mainly for I/O.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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But if I were to get a second video card, couldn’t I use the Plasma like a third monitor? There’s a 1920×1080 preset with the Radeon 9200 and the plasma has a PC in port.
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Checkout the Blackmagic cards from Decklink. A whole lot better idea and not a whole lot of money. There is a whole Cow forum devoted to Blackmagic, and the users or manufacture’s reps there will gladly point you in the right direction.
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No one I know has tested Digital Cinema Desktop output from a Radeon card. Might be worth a shot. Back in the day, a Radeon would only output the quality of the video in the Canvas, which is not full-quality, but nowadays we have DCD – which is a lot better.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Not entirely on point, but perhaps applicable.
My Sony plasma is tied to my Mac Mini via DVI. QuickTime movies play full screen on the plasma which has a native resolution of 1280×720. I’ve played 720p movs (H264) without problem. 1080 stuff scales and plays, though with frame-dropping limited by the speed of the Mini and it’s drive. I have not used my Mini with FCP… yet. Obviously, uncompressed output is more demanding on the system, but the display out should be comparable. The key thing here is that the image scales and displays fine.
I would guess that as FCP is a QT app, playing out via desktop view option should be possible. For that matter, if the second Radeon card isn’t up to the task, you could always use the DVI output from the main card, and use the second card for the less demanding browser display, no?
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[Rafe Murray] “But if I were to get a second video card, couldn’t I use the Plasma like a third monitor? There’s a 1920×1080 preset with the Radeon 9200 and the plasma has a PC in port.”
You won’t get the full resolution of 1080i I don’t believe. If you plan to drag the Canvas out there to view the project, FCP plays at about 15fps or so in the Canvas so your footage won’t be full motion.
To view HD correctly, you really need a card like the Kona 2. I simply send out Component to both my broadcast monitor and plasma display to view both 720 and 1080. I also have the option of sending out HD-SDI as well.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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Well, I’ve hooked the big plasma up to my box via VGA to my Radeon 9800 Pro. In Final Cut’s Digital Cinema Desktop it plays back real time, but at a crappy resolution, although I have yet to set up everything per Apple’s suggestions. In Quicktime it looks lovely, but drops frames. I’ll screw around with this for a little while longer, then perhaps consider an upgrade. Thanks all.
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