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Monitoring with Aspect
I recently purchased the Aja Xena card with a new computer for use with Premiere Pro 2.0 and JVC HDV acquisition. Prior to that, I had been using Cineform Aspect HD, and initially I tried using them on the same system and to my horror found that they really don’t care much for each other. Tim Kolb, you commented in a prior post that you actually uninstall and reinstall drivers to make this work. I’m just not that patient. Why can’t we call just get along?
Anyway, I’ve come to terms with that and have decided to work on two systems, using Aspect for HDV editing on my older system (dual processor Alienware with 2gig Ram and external 800mb Firewire drive), and the Aja system (dual procesor HPxw8200 with 1.25TB Medea RT3) for uncompressed SD/SDI and the occasional DVC ProHD edit.
One of the things that attracted me to the Aja was the monitoring options. But now that I’ve decided to keep working with Aspect on my other system, what are my best choices with Aspect?
I’ve tried the Cineform overlay to a second monitor on the video card (Quadro FX1300), but it’s not very responsive. It seems like I wait 8-10 seconds every time I hit play. Do I need a beefier card to make the most of this? Is there a suggested box that would convert firewire or DVI to NTSC? I’d really prefer to use an NTSC monitor if it’s not cost prohibitive.One more question though Tim – does the Aja card cause problems with Prospect HD vs Aspect?
I appreciate any feedback.
Thanks,
Dean
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Prospect…yes. That was actually what I was referring to…I run Aspect on a laptop as well, my main machine runs Prospect. It appears the two cannot load Premiere Pro project settings the same time. You can have the AJA card installed, then when you install the AJA drivers, uncheck the Premiere Pro option, which will leave out AJA’s project settings for Premiere Pro. Prospect runs the card then.
It’s a shame actually as having all the modes installed at the same time would make a very versatile system…
Aspect preview…unfortunately this pause (8 to 10 seconds is probably a bit of an exagerration unless you’re running a 32 MB video card on a P4 1.7 or something) is the same for whatever card you use. Aspect and Prospect both have a preview mode where the video picture res changes, therefore what you see is the card/monitor resetting. When you are in pause or scrubbing the timeline, you are looking at full res and when you export out you have full res, but preview playback mode changes it.
I have a fairly high level card in my Prospect system (Quadro 4500) and it does it too.
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