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Judging levels on a Leader 5100DE – SMPTE or Betacam?
Hey all,
I’ve recently become the proud user of a waveform monitor and now I want to make sure I have it connected properly. Several months ago I had a thread here on the cow concerning playback settings – Uncompressed YPbPr SMPTE N10 – 8-bit vs. Uncompressed YPbPr Betacam 525 – 8-bit vs. Uncompressed RGB 8-bit. The thread elicted this response from someone:
“The only time you will EVER use SMPTE N10 is if you have a SDI waveform monitor like a Leader LV5100D or a Tektronix WFM601. These products DECODE a SDI signal into analog component, using the SMPTE N10 format. The output appears on the 3 BNC connectors on the back of these scopes, labeled PIX MON OUT. When you hook up your Sony PVM series monitors to the PIX MON OUT of the scopes, you set your Sony monitor menu’s to SMPTE N10, or the colors will not be correct.
I didn’t have a waveform monitor of any kind at the time, and have happily avoided using the SMPTE setting for any reason (I’ve been using the YPbPr Betacam setting). Now, however, I am using a Leader LV 5100DE, which seems to be referenced in the above quote. However, the waveform takes it’s feed from the SDI output of my AJA, and my monitor takes it’s feed from the composite out of the AJA. Since I’m not monitoring anything through the Leader, then I still don’t need to worry about the SMPTE setting anywhere, correct?
Nick
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4 Replies
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Sounds right to me.
Jerry
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I”m not sure I’d want to be monitoring composite video though… could you take the component analog out from the card to the monitor?
Jerry
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Thanks! Yes, I could. This would probably be better wouldn’t it. That won’t create issues with my playback settings will it? (Playback set at YPbPr instead of RGB.) I’ll switch it around tomorrow.
Nick
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Will only give you a better picture… the Kona is putting out that signal regardless.
Jerry
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