AJA Hi5 3G vs. AJA HDP2

[Jeremy Garchow]

Here’s the miniconfig setup:

Parameters that I change form time to time are frame rate, Sd format, and scale. Most of the time, I pretty much leave it here, though as I am always editing 24p HD.

Jeremy

[Sean Kapleton]

hey great thanks for the pic just have a few questions

1) I have my blacks set 126 you had you thought yours was 125 – i just barely see the grey pluge so I am pretty sure this is correct – any thoughts?

2) luminance / brightness is 120 / 6500k whitepoint

3) Raster – why do you have this set to native?

4) you mention sometimes switching frame rights and SD but I thought the whole point of this box is that it would be able to properly detect and do this automatically – what am I missing?

thank you

sean

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sean Kapleton] “1) I have my blacks set 126 you had you thought yours was 125 – i just barely see the grey pluge so I am pretty sure this is correct – any thoughts?”

On my monitor it goes to 125, but you need to set it to whatever looks best on yours. They might not necessarily match.

[Sean Kapleton] “2) luminance / brightness is 120 / 6500k whitepoint”

Brightness is relative toy our room, turn it up or down to your liking, 65K whitepoint, yes.

[Sean Kapleton] “3) Raster – why do you have this set to native?”

Native to the Dreamcolor. That way the monitor doesn’t do any scaling, only the HDP2.

[Sean Kapleton] “4) you mention sometimes switching frame rights and SD but I thought the whole point of this box is that it would be able to properly detect and do this automatically – what am I missing?”

You aren’t missing anything and the HDP2 will most likely output 60Hz (as that’s where the monitor looks the smoothest when monitoring NTSC flavor video). I sometimes switch to monitor 24p video in 48Hz instead of 60Hz. It’s a personal preference, leaving it in auto will be fine.

[Sean Kapleton]

brilliant much thanks!

ps. have you or anyone else tried the HDLINK Pro 3D and if so what are your thoughts on this? I previously used the HDLINK Pro which was limited to 8bit but what I found annoying besides the flickering when switching between HD & SD and various frame rates (possibly could be a Dreamcolor issue requiring firmware update?) was the fact that the HDLINK had a utility window not unlike the HDP2 which had tabs with different adjusters (1D RGB output, etc) which actually did need to be tweaked accordingly to get the right calibration.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sean Kapleton] “have you or anyone else tried the HDLINK Pro 3D and if so what are your thoughts on this?”

I haven’t, sorry.