FCP Studio 2 & HD

[Sean Oneil]

Dan, you gotta understand one thing. If you capture over Firewire, that is EXACTLY what is being recorded to tape. With Varicam, FCP allows you to remove duplicate frames (turning 60 to 24) which is 100% a lossless process.

There is no re-compression taking place. With firewire it is a perfect digital 1:1 copy. Think of when you copy a computer file from a firewire drive to your internal. It’s essentially the same thing.

Capturing over SDI to any format will actually decrease the quality, not increase it.

Sean

[Dan Mirolli]

HI Sean . . yup I understand that. It’s just the images differed so greatly from the field monitor to FCP’s viewer I though I was doing something very wrong.
I’m in the process of trying to get a Kona3 in here.

[Sean Oneil]

In the meantime you can try watching it in Quicktime player, full size.

Sean

[Steve Connor]

If you’re getting a Kona 3 you won’t see any difference in picture quality unless you hook up an HD monitor to it.

You need to try and immerse yourself in some research on the subject.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Shane Ross]

[dan] “It’s just the images differed so greatly from the field monitor to FCP’s viewer I though I was doing something very wrong.”

Yup…and this has always been the case. NEVER EVER EVER judge the quality of your image based on what you see on the computer monitors, in the Viewer or Canvas. That is not a full quality image.

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787

Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the video data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck, or via a capture card.

And you need an HD monitor…an SD monitor won’t give you full quality..as you’d have to downconvert it via the Kona to get the image on the screen.

As everyone here has been saying…

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Dan Mirolli]

If you’re getting a Kona 3 you won’t see any difference in picture quality unless you hook up an HD monitor to it.

You need to try and immerse yourself in some research on the subject.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

I’ve read that the Kona 3 allows the use of Pro Res HQ ???

[Walter Biscardi]

[dan] “I suspected that Steve. Just did a test and noticed that there is a huge difference (not better or worse) between 24p & 60i also.”

Yes, 24p has more of a film look and 60i is more of live video look. 60i is generally much sharper than 24p.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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