Capturing HDV through firewire, Kona not needed?

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You cannot monitor HDV through a camera

[Shane Ross]

What he said. To view HDV you need an HD card. Especially if you want to output that to tape…you need the card to downconvert that to SD when you output.

Look at the Matrox MXO.

Shane

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[Christian Vorbeck]

Ok,
This is my theory,
Input HDV Material through firewire from JVC BR-HD50U JVC Deck, edit natively on fcp 5, output through firewire to same deck (still HDV, no downconvertion, correct?), simultaneously from component output on deck go to component input on beta sp (here is were the downconvertion would happen,) and at the same time, so I can monitor HDV material, I

[Walter Biscardi]

[cvorbeck] “Input HDV Material through firewire from JVC BR-HD50U JVC Deck, edit natively on fcp 5, output through firewire to same deck (still HDV, no downconvertion, correct?), simultaneously from component output on deck go to component input on beta sp (here is were the downconvertion would happen,) and at the same time, so I can monitor HDV”

Again, you’re outputting via Firewire, you cannot monitor HDV via Firewire through a deck in realtime, so you won’t be able to “downconvert” it in realtime either. You’ll need to lay it out to tape, THEN do your Component downconvert.

We convert all of our HDV footage to DVCPro HD for editing using the Kona cards. You’ll probably get a better downconvert of HD to SD through the Kona as well.

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[Christian Vorbeck]

Thanks Walter,

I understand that I wont be able to downconvert from hdv to sd in real time. I can do that after i lay it out to tape in hdv through firewire, correct?.
but
[walter biscardi] “Again, you’re outputting via Firewire, you cannot monitor HDV via Firewire through a deck in realtime”
This is what confuses me, I

[Shane Ross]

#25 HDV external Monitor Viewing

Shane’s Stock Answer #25 – HDV external Monitor Viewing

To view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink or AJA offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed.

[b]HDV cannot be played out of FCP via Firewire because it’s Long GOP structure is too taxing on your processors to spare the system resources needed to drive an external monitor.[/b]

The best option you have is the Matrox MXO…$1000.

Shane

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