SD (Component) Monitoring Quality from Kona LH from DVCPRO HD

[Shane Ross]

Well, at my current job, we have the Kona LH and a Sony LCD monitor, and I have to say that the picture looks sharp, but I get some weird playback artifacts. But I think that is the monitor. I know if I had my good CRT here, it’d look great.

The output of the card is solid…so it all depends on the monitor at this point.

Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Martin Phillips] “Hi, I have nearly made the decision to by the LH – just wondered whether anyone has experience of monitoring this way. Is it ‘soft’or excellent quality?”

Excellent quality. This is how we’ve monitored all of our Kona systems in both SD and HD. I tested an SDI Input on my Sony PVM20L5/1 at one time and found that the input looked identical to the Component off the Kona so we’ve never installed any SDI inputs on any of our monitors or plasma screen.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Hd down-converted to SD through the Kona card is of excellent quality. The down-conversion is all done in hardware and in real time. Editing HD while monitoring in SD is a breeze.

Jeremy

[Chris Poisson]

Jeremy,

Not sure if I understand, can you elaborate on this SD monitoring from HD thing? I have an LH, but when I work in HD I send the card’s component output to an HD monitor, which works in real time. Are you saying I can send a real time signal in SD to my Sony SD monitor? How?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes sir. Leave FCP in the HD easy setup. Using the Kona control panel, you can put a down-convert on any output of the kona card at any time. In the control panel select the format tab and change your secondary format to whatever SD standard you are in (525i or 625i). Your primary format should still be whatever HD mode FCP is in. Then select the analog output by clicking it’s icon. Change the format from primary to secondary and then you should see a little down-convert icon pop up on the analog pipe.

It’s a few clicks of a button.

Jeremy

[Chris Poisson]

SONOFA!!!

Doh, I coulda been monitoring this way for the last 6 months and didn’t know it. Now I don’t have to do the cable switch to my HDTV and I can color correct on my Sony! Thanks Jeremy!