Monitoring on an SD Component Monitor

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Monitoring on an SD Component Monitor

Posted by Michael Nichols on October 22, 2008 at 4:09 pm

I have a really nice SD Broadcast component monitor. I am waiting on my BVM 20 to arrive for use with my Kona 3 (which just came today!)

Can I monitor HD footage on the SD monitor using the component outputs?

Naveen Mallikarjuna replied 16 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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Walter Biscardi
October 22, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Yes, just set up the Kona 3 control panel to downconvert your HD output to SD. This is covered in the AJA User Guide that came with the Kona 3.

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Michael Nichols
October 22, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Thanks Walter.

Didn’t crack open the K3 yet!

I did get the Creative Cow Apple Color DVD!!

Thanks.
Michael Nichols
October 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Hey Walter (or anyone else!)

It looks like I set the downconversion correctly in the control panel, but it still doesn’t appear to work correctly. In FCP, I have my video going out 525i 29.97 10Bit RGB. I am only getting single frames (which are actually squeezed images). If I change the video out to 525i 29.97 RBGA, I get playback on the monitor, but the image is cut off. Meaning, It looks like the image is still 1868 x 780 and I am only able to see the area that “fits” in the 720 x786 frame.
Gary Adcock
October 23, 2008 at 1:58 pm

[Michael Nichols] “It looks like the image is still 1868 x 780”

the Kona cards will only show a realtime downconversion with “standard” raster video formats in FCP.

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Michael Nichols
October 23, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Crap! So does that mean, in order for me to monitor my footage on an SD monitor through the Kona, I need to render the frames within a 1920 x 1080 canvas?

What about HD monitoring? Can I send the 1868×780 sequence out to an HD CRT?
Naveen Mallikarjuna
January 28, 2010 at 12:12 am

Not to resurrect a dead thread, but my problem is similar so I thought this might be a good jumping off point.

I have an FCP project where the sequence is 1080p23.98. In the AJA control panel, when this is selected as my “Frame Buffer”, the Secondary (Converted) Format is greyed out. Does this mean I cannot monitor this in SD?

I noticed that only certain formats allow a Secondary Format. So I guess this is true for all of them?

Thanks!

Naveen
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