Blackmagic Intensity to Monitor DVCProHD?

[David Roth weiss]

It is certainly a an inexpensive way to offline an HD project. I am cutting a DVCPro100 project now displaying to a SD broadcast monitor, however, when I am done, I will definitely bring the project to another facility for final color corrrection if it is ever to be broadcast. If the project is just for distribution on DVD you can almost certainly take the project to completion monitoring only in SD and just checking DVDs on an HD monitor to insure everything looks good.

DRW

[Ntz]

[David Roth Weiss] “It is certainly a an inexpensive way to offline an HD project.”

So you mean you CANT use it to monitor an online DVCProHD project? You CANT use it to color correct accurately? Why?

[David Roth weiss]

Would you want to do anything important requiring precision with 5/6 of your vision blocked? Thats essentially what you’re doing when displaying an HD signal to an SD monitor. So, even if you using a wonderful waveform/vectorscope that gives you extreme confidence in the integrity of your video signal, you would only be seeing about 1/6 of the video information onscreen, which means you might easily miss some abberations that would be clearly visble on an HD monitor. So, you have to ask yourself, would that give you the confidence to show your finished work to the world?

DRW

[Adroko13]

Ya id like to know as well- it would be nice to monitor hdmi output- also wondering if this card would work with a deck link extreme card

[Ntz]

[David Roth Weiss] “Would you want to do anything important requiring precision with 5/6 of your vision blocked? Thats essentially what you’re doing when displaying an HD signal to an SD monitor”

Wiat… D’you mean to say that the Intensity Card only sends an SD signal? I though since it was HDMI out, it was sending a signal thats fully HD?!

[David Roth weiss]

Please pardon my mistake, I went back to read the original thread and now realize I had confused this thread with another one in which someone was asking if a SD BM card could be used to monitor DVCPro100. The new Blackmagic card with HDMI I/O is indeed an HD card.

DRW

[Christopher S. johnson]

The Intensity works with HDV, DVCPRO-HD, and Uncompressed HD at full HD quality. No compromises that I can see. Just make sure and calibrate that home HDTV as much as you can. Maybe even hire an ISF calibration guy for a couple hundred bucks.

-Christopher

[David S.]

However, it does not seem to work with 720/24p or pn.

[Christopher S. johnson]

Hmm. So if my client was shooting with the JVC camera I would have to ask them to shoot in 30p instead? Or what if I am transcoding to DVCPRO-HD on the fly anyway? Wouldn’t 24p with the pull down frames added behave OK? I dunno.

-CJ