HDV preview out to SD firewire in real time?

[Walter Biscardi]

Not with FCP 5. Someone listed that as a new feature in FCP 6, though I haven’t seen it yet.

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[Charles Roberts]

The feature you’re looking for is in FCP 6. I think probably in FCP 5 you’d get nothing, since it has to scale and reformat to output via that pipe and FCP couldn’t do that. But in FCP 6, you can output HDV right out the SD Firewire pipe with three caveats:

1) it looks like, how shall I put it, crap… The scaling is almost arbitrary looking. Still, its a realtime preview with no green or red bar

2) the frame rate of the HDV must match the frame rate of the output device. That means 30P or 60i going to NTSC and no 24P (since there’s no pulldown to make it work)

3) You’ll get a headache looking at the rippling lines from the mismatched vertical resolution and any high contrast diagonals. I can’t imagine how bad it looks on a consumer monitor.

Seriously, the feature is there, but skip pizzas for a few months and buy an MXO o.r other cheap true downconversion device. Your eyes will thank you

[Dave Jenkins]

We have an AJA LA and we can see our XDCAM HD and HDV footage through the firewire connected to the AJA LA in SD. Sweet!

[Dave Jenkins]

We have an AJA LA and we can see our XDCAM HD and HDV footage through the firewire connected to the AJA LA in SD. Sweet! This is using FCP 6