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Monitoring with Intensity Pro question
Hi, doing a TV project and it has been rejected by the network due to interlacing issues as we are apparently using some dodgy footage from the US.
We don’t usually need to monitor as everything is shot in 1080i, but with some of our footage now coming from the US in all types of crazy formats, I would like to see it as it would end up on TV.
Would the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card allow me to do this?
Ie. the network claimed that some footage had “very poor conversion from NTSC causing bad motion judder / motion jump”, “field-order errors”, and “looks like interlaced original footage (50i) has been incorrectly deinterlaced (25p) using a field-merge technique resulting in unacceptable judder / stutter / double images”
This is from VNRs and footage downloaded from US productions houses which all looked fine in FCP on our computer monitors. So could I plug in a LCD TV via the Intensity Pro that will allow me to instantly see these issues?
Many thanks, David
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Hi David, to piggy back on your post (I’m one post below yours, mulling over monitoring options as well): would a SD CRT TV connected via an Intensity Pro card be a possible downconverted preview monitor for checking interlacing?
Kai
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[David Grey] “We don’t usually need to monitor as everything is shot in 1080i”
I don’t know how 1080i negates the need for monitoring, but if you’re doing television work, you should always monitor.
Dave addressed your standards issue, but as for monitoring, the Intensity Pro will allow you to output directly to any HDMI-equipped monitor. I use it in a Windows/Premiere setup, but I understand it works fine on Mac Pros running FCP.
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Yes I realize they’re different frame rates, but the footage we were supplied was already in PAL format.
The question was really whether an Intensity Pro would enable us to recognise the stated problems before we send it to the network and look like idiots! If I had known it was unacceptable I would never have used it, but how was I to know?
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it was a VNR – not film
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ah yes I know, but we have a very small budget and are used to just using our own footage. I guess I meant we have never monitored as our entire workflow was 1080i including delivery, so we never ran into issues like this
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