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Monitoring SD 16×9
What I understand about the Kona products is that they scale down HD material for letterbox viewing on a SD monitor. Does the same apply for 16×9 SD footage. In other words, can I use our existing monitor (no anamorphic viewing) and view it in letterbox using a Kona output? Bottom line here is that I’m upgrading our edit bay and looking at all options. Most work is still SD but building for the near future.
thanks,
Ric Shellhammer
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The Kona-card will not converter 16×9 Anamorphic SD material to 16×9 Letterbox SD. It’s a feature I wish was there though.
When editing HD you have the option of converting it to SD Anamorphic, Letterboxed och center-cropped.
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The Kona-card will not convert 16×9 Anamorphic SD material to 16×9 Letterbox SD. It’s a feature I really, really wish was there though.
When editing HD you have the option of converting it to SD Anamorphic, Letterboxed och center-cropped.
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I will second this.
Since the card uses a hardware downconverter in HD to SD mode I wonder how hard it would be to do the anamorphice squeeze in SD to SD mode. Presumably the processing power “exists on the card to do this, it’s just not in the driver.
Aurora video had a letterboxing feature on one of their cards that let you mask out tc and frame numbers from burned in rushes. that was handy too.
So, I’ll second the SD Anamorphic feature idea.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Can’t agree more David.
It would also be terrific to be able to down-convert with-out output as well (i.e down-conversion on one system to the same system)
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Does anyone here know if the Blackmagic products do this?
ric
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I don’t think so… Most Blackmagic products are (or where at least) using software-based scaling before which give me the shivers seing how good the Kona LHe performs compared to software’s like Final Cut, Motion and After Effects.
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Just to throw in me 2cents, I just got a Toshiba 20″ tube TV and they had a 16:9 mode and they cost under $200. Great for editing, okay for basic (but not critical) color correction if you take the time to adjust them right.
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The only product that does this to date, in RT, is the now abandoned Cinewave board.
Ron
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