monitoring HDV realtime in FCP

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

monitoring HDV realtime in FCP

Posted by Geoff Adams on February 7, 2006 at 1:46 pm

Folks,

I am capturing and editing HDV in FCP. What is the most cost effective way to achieve realtime monitoring from the timeline on a standard NTSC (crt)? I don’t need to output to an HD deck, because my projects will be brought on the hard drive to an editing facility for output to D5. I just want a way to make basic color correction decisions, etc….

thanks,

-Geoff Adams

Funkyart replied 20 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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Shane Ross
February 7, 2006 at 3:02 pm

#25 HDV external Monitor Viewing

Shane’s Stock Answer #25 – HDV external Monitor Viewing

To view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink or AJA offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed.

HDV cannot be played out of FCP via Firewire because it’s Long GOP structure is too taxing on your processors to spare the system resources needed to drive an external monitor.

Shane Ross
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Geoff Adams
February 7, 2006 at 3:44 pm

Thanks for the answer. I thought as much. But what about this?

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/connections/index.asp?prodID=4

Its output diagram shows a “Y – composite monitoring” output.
Jerry Alto
February 7, 2006 at 4:55 pm

Bomb- Looks like the Y output is composite. Composite does not carry a high def signal. You’ll need a card that delivers component HD or SDI HD. If you go the SDI route the monitors are spendy.
Jerry

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Creative Animal jan
February 7, 2006 at 7:21 pm

HDV will playout with realtime downconversion to SD on any Blackmagic cards.
Choose HDV1080 in your sequence reset, then choose HD1080 in your playback – audio video settings.
Then goto your mac system preferences. Choose Blackmagic settings and enable realtime downconversion HD->SD.
There you go!

good luck
Jan

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Funkyart
February 21, 2006 at 1:14 pm

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to join this conversation with a question.

So if you have a HDV recorder/player (sony M10E) can you work with HDV at a OFFLINE, capturing via firewire can you use the normal mac monitors with a BLACKMAGIC DECKLINK, to monitor at offline?

Then for the online, you would use a MIRANDA box to recapture the HDV at HD quality via SDI of the MIRANDA box, and then you would need a HD mac monitor with a HD link box?

Any help greatly appreciated

Cheers

arturo

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