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Sending video to Plasma
I was just wondering what some of you were doing to get the video signal to your widescreen plasma monitors. I will have an HD monitor, but aren’t doing any HD yet, so I won’t get the HD-SDI card. Here’s my stuff for your reference, Kona 2 (with box), DVCPro50 SD93 w/SDI and analog boards, Beta PVw2800, IOla, PVM14L5/1, Panasonic 42″ Pro HD Plasma.
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.”
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You should be able to use the Analog Comonent out of the Kona 2 Box into the Plasma Monitor9That’s what I’m doing).
Greg Jones
D7,inc.
Orlando,Fl.
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Don’t I need that for video out to my beta deck? With audio running through a D/A converter?
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.”
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Isn’t that why you have the the iO LA?
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I was under the impression that I used the IO la for input. Then used the Kona 2 for editing and output.
And of course I’m referring to beta video, which will be an issue here for a long time.Can I do my editing with the Kona 2, then do out to tape with the IO la? If so, then I’m golden.
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.”
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Yup. Looks like your golden!
We have a couple of FCP stations. Some with Kona 2s some with i/Os and they all play together nice. Fortuently, we only do DigiBeta work, so its all SDI (with an i/O DA) but you should be fine in analog land.
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[Marc Rolph] “I was just wondering what some of you were doing to get the video signal to your widescreen plasma monitors”
I run my Component feed to my Sony PVM20L5/1 CRT HD Monitor and then loop out of that to my Panasonic 50″ plasma display. Works extremely well.
You can run the Component output of your Io LA to the PVM-2800 for SD mastering.
Keep in mind that the 42″ display is not quite HD native resolution so the image will appear a little bit distorted. It’s a 1024×768 monitor so it will slightly distort the image. That was actually the deciding factor in going with the 50″ monitor here for our primary online suite, even though it is a little bit large for the room size. It features 1366×768 resolution so it can display our 720p material in full resolution.
But we are going to add a 37″ Panasonic to our second room because there’s nothing that I’ve seen to compare to the image quality on these things. They are just stunning.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I’ll check out the 37″. My room isn’t that big, maybe 15′ x 9′, so the 37″ on a wall might do the trick. What about SD on that monitor? Is it acceptable?
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.”
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[Marc Rolph] “I’ll check out the 37″. My room isn’t that big, maybe 15′ x 9′, so the 37″ on a wall might do the trick. What about SD on that monitor? Is it acceptable?”
SD is fine on the display. If you mean “acceptable” in terms of accurate colors, it can be tuned to pretty much perfectly match a Sony CRT display, but I still would never color correct with it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Yea, that’s what I meant by acceptable…for clients watching their SD stuff on. I’ll have a PVM14L5/1 for CC.
The 37″ looks like what I’ll go with.
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.”
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