FCP 6

[Walter Biscardi]

I don’t think so. The video still needs to be conformed in order to play back out via Firewire. You can pick up the Matrox MXO from what I understand, it’s supposed to be able to play back HDV in realtime.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

FCP 6’s monitoring options are the same as FCP 5’s… it’s not the software that stops this from happening with FW and HDV… it’s HDV… and the fact that the cameras and decks don’t support it. If they did, FCP 5 would have worked.

That said, the Matrox MXO or a Capture card/Io HD is still needed.

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[Andy Mees]

not so guys

FCP 6 what’s new clearly states:

External Video Monitoring
You can now output to external video interfaces whose settings don

[Charles Roberts]

Paul mentioned this feature at the supermeet, and here’s from the new features list:

“External Video Monitoring
You can now output to external video interfaces whose settings don

[Andy Mees]

yes indeed. that’s what the manual says.

i don’t have fcp 6 at this time but it would appear to be a simple case of selecting the output you want (ie apple firewire) and voila if you ave not broken any rules then your sequence will conform to that output setting in realtime .. i reserve the right to be wrong on this (and everything else of course!)

[Jerry Hofmann]

You still can’t view HDV externally in HD… you can down convert it to DV… You;d have to render it in FCP 5 to DV, or in 6 you don’t (with the caveats that you may have to anyway…) but nevertheless you’re not monitoring it natively or in any flavor of HD without 3rd party hardware.

Matrox MXO is still the best bet here. It also allows you to see HD on a Cinema Display… What FCP 6 does is allow you see HDV in DV Not HD…

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[Walter Biscardi]

[chawla] ”
An HDV sequence output to a DV FireWire output (!)””

DV, not HDV. Not exactly what you want to see if you’re working in HD.

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[Zak Mussig]

Sounds like the concern is whether or not the poster can use their existing equipment (an NTSC monitor). As far as I know that’s a yes, you can downconvert over firewire and monitor on an NTSC display. You’d obviously need a DV deck or camera to feed the monitor video from the firewire signal, and I’d be very curious about performance of something like this, but it should work.

Zak

[Andy Mees]

ah gotcha … had a different take on the question there! got excited as the live dv downconversion is a big plus for field editing of xdcam hd witout an mxo.

picking hairs, but now, with the right 3rd party equipment, could the poster output a dvcprohd cross conversion via firewire in order to monitor their hdv timeline in hd in realtime?

i’m with you though. i also beleive the mxo is the best solution.

[Charles Roberts]

yeah, I agree which is why I’m running through a Matrox, but the dude did ask the question. Not everyone has online quality monitoring for roughing content.