Monitoring DVCProHD FireWire Capture

[Jared Picune]

Please excuse me for this stupid response:

Why don’t you plug the deck into the monitor for viewing??? But if you are using the 1200a deck can’t you just capture SDI through the K2 instead of firewire, then you would have the K2 for monitoring during capture.

Jared
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG

[Walter Biscardi]

[Fred Connors Jr] “Is it possible for a KONA2 to monitor the audio and video of a DVCPro FireWire stream during FCP Log and Capture?”

Nope. I run my 1200A directly to my monitor and my Mackie 1202 mixing board to monitor video and audio during firewire capture.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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[Fred Connors jr.]

Jared

It is not a stupid response. If we were in a single user everything on one desktop environment, we could plug the deck into the monitor for viewing. Our KONA2 outputs are into SD/HD DAs that in trun feed the editors displays. We can, and do patch the deck into the DA and bypass the KONA2.

We just wanted to confrim that FCP does not feed the FireWire signal to the KONA2 during Log and Capture.

Also we were experimenting with compareing SDI -> DVDProHD vs FireWire -> DVCProHD.

Fred

[Jeff Bernstein]

I think another thing to be aware of is that if you use your 1200A as a “converter”, it introduces a delay of the signal by a couple of frames. By converter I mean that is you didn’t use a Kona2 during your editing process and simple had the 1200A converting to SDI.

Also, for those of you using certain Plasma and LCD displays, many of these devices introduce a delay in the video due to their on-board processing.

Jeff Bernstein

Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Jeff Bernstein] “I think another thing to be aware of is that if you use your 1200A as a “converter”, it introduces a delay of the signal by a couple of frames. By converter I mean that is you didn’t use a Kona2 during your editing process and simple had the 1200A converting to SDI.”

I definitely would not recommend using the 1200A as a converter during editing. Use the Kona 2 and if you only have an SD monitor, then use the Kona 2’s down-convert feature. Your editing will be much more accurate with the K2 than 1200A.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network

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