Broadcast quality

[Dean Sensui]

Brandon…

Your tech guy is misinformed. The Intensity Pro does not have HD-SDI, and that can be a very useful port in the HD world, especially if you’re interested in seeing your work on a high-quality HD monitor sometime down the road.

The “component” in/out of the Intensity Pro might not be the component signal used by the UVW-1800.

Also, the Intensity Pro’s audio connectors are not balanced. They’re just two-conductor RCA.

I’d suggest the Blackmagic Decklink Extreme.

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/decklinkhdextreme/

Has component in/out for your UVW-1800. Also has HDMI and HD-SDI. When you get an HD monitor in the future (FSI as recommended by Walter Biscardi), you can connect it to the HD-SDI port.

Meanwhile, if you get a consumer monitor it can be connected to the HDMI port.

And the Decklink Extreme has balanced XLR audio connectors.

I’m using a Decklink Extreme (the previous version fo the card) and get excellent results when mastering to Betacam SP.

Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing

[Brandon Carter]

Update: We have purchased the Blackmagic Decklink Extreme PCI card with Breakout cables and have purchased the Sony UVW 1800. Thanks to everyone who contributed to help us make the decisions. The last item that we want to purchase is a broadcast quality monitor. I KNOW that we need one. So hopefully, this is the last question…what monitor do you recommend? Are there any certain connections/other features that we need to look for? We are looking to spend under $1000 and would like to get the most bang for our buck. We have no problem buying secondhand. Finally, we made the decision not to do HD at this time (due to us being self financed and our channel not being HD anytime soon) so we do not need a monitor for HD.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Brandon Carter] ” We are looking to spend under $1000 and would like to get the most bang for our buck. We have no problem buying secondhand. “

Look at The Broadcast Store or other used equipment store. The cheapest broadcast monitor I recommend is the FSI 1760W which is $2,495 so that’s out of your range. Look for Sony PVM monitors used.

I have a 14L5/1 for sale in the Cow classified, but it’s more than your budget.

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[Jason Porthouse]

This would do the job, you’d need the component card (about $270) to go with it though for the best quality.

Jason

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[Brandon Carter]

OK…We have found a PVM 14M4U with SDI component card, a PVM 14L5 and a PVM 20M4U, both with no SDI card. All three are within our price range. Any recommendations about which to get? I’m leaning toward the 14M4U b/c of the SDI but I know people have already recommended the 14L5 previously. Thanks in advance for the help.

[Russell Lasson]

Someone contacted me about this post and I wasn’t able to take the call. I was actually golfing at the time and wrote the number on the scorecard, which someone in the group promptly threw away (because the scores were nothing that any of us wanted to remember!) Whoever contacted me, please try again tomorrow. I’ll be at work for the full day (it will be a while before I can get out on the course again!).

Thanks,

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
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