HD editing with HVX and Quad g5

[Shane Ross]

There were two stations…one with the AJ-HD1400 deck that was manned by Victor…and one with the HVX-200 which I manned. I had the camera connected to both a 17″ Powerbook owned by Panasonic, and when that had to be taken away due to constant crashing, I used my 15″ 1.67Ghz G4 Powerbook. The camera was connected to the computers via firewire, then to the huge monitor above my station via S-Video. The monitor above my station was also connected to my computer via DVI so that it mirrored the desktop. But all I had to do was press the INPUT button and I was able to switch from DVI to S-Video.

On the camera I got it to THUMBNAIL view, then pressed the THUMBNAIL/(something else) button on the top of the camera and then the image from my timeline appeared in the cameras flip out display, AND the monitor above. The image quality wasn’t the best, but it was there. It was also reputed (but we didn’t connect the cables) that it would work with the component cables as well.

Please try this and let me know your results. I will also see if I can borrow one of my producers cameras and attempt the same.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[David S.]

I’ll give it a try Shane.

Great news if I can get it to work.

We have both a PB 1.67, the cam, and a SD Sony Production monitor.

Thanks

[Shane Ross]

Even if you get it to work, I don’t think that the signal being sent is an HD one. There is no HD SDI outs, and I don’t think the component outs are HD either, but an SD signal. So it would be good for framing reference and to show a client, but not good for color correction.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[David S.]

Thanks

[Barry Green]

[Shane Ross] “The camera was connected to the computers via firewire, then to the huge monitor above my station via S-Video.”

Right, and S-video is a standard-def signal. You can only output high-def through the component outputs. And the component outputs will not send out a high-def signal when the camera is receiving a firewire input signal.

So on the monitor you were getting a standard-def downconvert, through the s-video port.

[Shane Ross]

OK…see, that I knew. I knew that the signal coming out of the camera to a monitor wasn’t HD.

The fact that I was told that I couldn’t play my timeline thru the camera when I was doing it at NAB is what was getting my goat.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net