Anyone else confused or dissapointed with new HVX200?

[Gary Adcock]

[Scenecutter] ”
Others have suggested that I do not have the proper hardware to downconvert the DVCPROHD recordings. Yhey are noisy, soft and loaded with alias artifacts. BTW, I get the same result with DVCPROHD recordings from the Varicam. “

Then Stop trying to go from compressed codec to another compressed codec down-convert in software. FCP does not do that well. and you need to judge SD footage on a proper NTSC display.
You are doing yourself a great disservice — no computer monitor cannot properly judge an NTSC image.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Brian]

The d30/50 and the HVX (to the p2 card only) records a 4;2;2; color sampled picture
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I went ’round and ’round on this in the broadcast forum. basically what i got out of it was that beta sp is an analog format so you can use stuff like 4.2.2 as a performance figure. then adam wilt said if one HAD to ascribe a sampling ratio to beta sp it’d be 3.1.1.

[Brian]

The d30/50 and the HVX (to the p2 card only) records a 4;2;2; color sampled picture
……………………..

I went ’round and ’round on this in the broadcast forum. basically what i got out of it was that beta sp is an analog format so you can use stuff like 4.2.2 as a performance figure. then adam wilt said if one HAD to ascribe a sampling ratio to beta sp it’d be 3.1.1.

[Toke]

[gary adcock] “You are doing yourself a great disservice — no computer monitor cannot properly judge an NTSC image.”

Unless you have enough high quality “computer monitor” and you calibrate and profile it to look exactly like ntsc monitor.
We are living the hd era and “television”, “computer monitor” and “theater screen” are rapidly merging.

[Gary Adcock]

[toke lahti] “Unless you have enough high quality “computer monitor” and you calibrate and profile it to look exactly like ntsc monitor. We are living the hd era and “television”, “computer monitor” and “theater screen” are rapidly merging.”

But NTSC SD is not HD

So NO you cannot accurately judge any NTSC SD interlaced content correctly on any computer screen. Without being able to view the supported masking and interlace done by an NTSC TV it will never be accurate in terms of temporal or chroma information preview even on the highest caliber display.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Toke]

[gary adcock] “So NO you cannot accurately judge any NTSC SD interlaced content correctly on any computer screen.”

You can use most of crt computer screens in interlaced mode.
But who wants to shoot interlaced with hvx200?