FCP 6

[Dan Riley]

What about using the Blackmagic Intensity card? It’s only $250 or $350 if you want
component outputs. If your camera has an HDMI connector, this may be an nice choice.
I haven’t used one though.

Dan

[Gary Adcock]

[FCPinNFLA] “Just finshed reading the FCP 6 user manual and I am unclear about monitoring HDV. Will this version now allow us to do this via firewire to an NTSC monitor?”

No not without a Video card, not even in HD either.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Bob Roberts]

Here’s a “real-world” scenario that might clarify the question/answer:

I have a MBP that I sometimes use with an old Canopus DV-to-s/video box connected to a 14-inch Sony monitor. It works fine when I’m on the go, but is limited to DV projects.

If I understand the manual correctly, I should be able to play anything (SD to HD) out of my firewire output and onto the screen. Is it “true HD” monitoring, no. But, if it works as I understand, it will be a handy little feature.

[Zak Mussig]

This suggestion assumes that the questioner has a Mac Pro or late model G5 (PCIe). Maybe some more information about the exact system, codec, and equipment the person already has would help. That said, the MXO is almost certainly the way to go… if the money is there for it.

On a side note… am I the only one more reluctant to repy to people whose screen names give me absolutely no clue how to adress or refer to them?

Zak

[Alejandro Fernandez]

I just installed FCS 2 and send some HDV out to a regular NTSC monitor via firewire and a DV camera acting as deck. The results are just terrible. The edges of the images look distorted, with heavy and marked lines. It’s much better to monitor on a LCD via digital cinema desktop, even without the Matrox MXO.

The output from FCP is fairly simple. I just went to Video Playback and selected NTSC. I checked the manual but I don’t see any other way to do it and no more detailed mention to it.

I have been trying to monitor “real” 24 frames (a reverse telecine from a DVCam of a transfered film) but without much luck. The 23.98 do work, and since I never tried to monitor 23.98 on a NTSC monitor with FCP 5.1 before, I don’t know if the 24 fps mentioned as “new feature” are in fact 24 fps or just 23.98 fps.

Since I’m about to star editing a film shot on 35mm (transfer to DVCam NTSC) that will go back to film, I was just wondering how can I monitor real 24 frames, so I can leave the audio alone and avoid any possible problems with the negative cutter, specially since the rest of the lab work (including the negative cut) will be done in France, PAL land.

Saludos

[Gary Adcock]

[pollodiantres] “I have been trying to monitor “real” 24 frames (a reverse telecine from a DVCam of a transfered film) but without much luck. “

that because your tapes are 23.98 masters NOT 24.0

“Since I’m about to star editing a film shot on 35mm (transfer to DVCam NTSC) that will go back to film, I was just wondering how can I monitor real 24 frames, so I can leave the audio alone and avoid any possible problems with the negative cutter, “

my guess is that you have not done this before, telecine transfers are done at 23.98 to facilitate the realtime playback on NTSC displays, fewer and fewer people use 24.0 since few tools support 24.0 for output.

23.98 is the standard frame rate for telecine in the US.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Alejandro Fernandez]

Thanks Gary

Yeah, first time. Last time I worked with a negative cutter in New York who did all the database, so I just gave him the tapes and the negative, edited in 29.97, export an EDL from FCP and he conformed the video cuts to the negative with no problems.

I guess I better talk to the negative cutter in France (although I don’t speak French) and see what he needs. Since the negative is going directly there after the telecine, I guess he can make his own database. I just hope they have a NTSC deck. The other alternative is to have the telecine done in PAL, could that be possible? (my deck and monitor are PAL/NTSC, so no problems there). I guess I better check with the lab too.

thanks again
saludos