viewer quality vs. canvas quality HELP!

[Walter Biscardi]

Get yourself a real external monitor to view your playback.

https://forums.creativecow.net/faq/applefinalcutpro#59

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[David Roth weiss]

Or, change the RT settings. The canvas is designed to display things in realtime and thus the deafult RT settings lower the display quality to do that. As I wrote in another post earlier today, the user can change the settings to display “high” and instead set the RT to drop the framerate by cahnging that to “dynamic.”

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[Andrew Kimery]

Just to add to what’s already been said. What you see in the Viewer is the native file but what you see in the Canvas comes from the timeline. In your specific case the Viewer is showing a hi-res photo while the Canvas is showing a hi-res photo shrunk down to SD size and compressed w/the DV codec. Also, the Canvas doesn’t show images at full quality and needs to be set to 100% in order for both fields to be displayed (if it’s set to less than 100% only one field will be shown).

As Walter said though, to see what you really have you need to be looking at it on an external monitor.

-A

[Mike Miller]

thanks walter. i do have a decent sony PVM-14M2U (20″), but can’t seem to get it to display anything!? if i have firewire going from my mac to the aja i/o hd and i’m going out of the aja (via bnc cables) RGB out to the monitor’s RGB in, i would think that it should display whats on the canvas, again, any thoughts?

thanks.
mike

[Mike Miller]

thanks andrew…that helps, native file vs. compressed sd video. if i changed my codec to something other than DV would that help?

and my response to walter re the external monitor:

thanks walter. i do have a decent sony PVM-14M2U (20″), but can’t seem to get it to display anything!? if i have firewire going from my mac to the aja i/o hd and i’m going out of the aja (via bnc cables) RGB out to the monitor’s RGB in, i would think that it should display whats on the canvas, again, any thoughts?

[Michael Sacci]

[mike miller] “i digitized the audio from a panasonic mini dv deck going thru aja iohd. i brought the footage and audio of her read in using NTSC DV/DVCPRO easy setup at 720×480.”

As a side note – why are you bring in audio and video this way? If you are capturing to the same DV codec it would be much better to capture via FW from the deck.

[Walter Biscardi]

[mike miller] ” if i have firewire going from my mac to the aja i/o hd and i’m going out of the aja (via bnc cables) RGB out to the monitor’s RGB in, i would think that it should display whats on the canvas, again, any thoughts? “

Provided you have the proper Easy Setups selected, you should see your timeline on the external display.

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[Mike Miller]

okay, a little playing around and i now have a nice picture on my sony external monitor. but, now i’ve lost audio! the drop down in fc for audio playback is forcing audio to follow video, all other options are grayed out…? i have been simply using some external speakers that plug directly into the mac’s headphone jack, but now, no sound coming from them?

thanks for your help, very appreciated!

[Walter Biscardi]

[mike miller] ” i have been simply using some external speakers that plug directly into the mac’s headphone jack, but now, no sound coming from them?”

Ok,all of this really should be in the Final Cut Pro Basics forum.

Your audio is now being fed from your Io HD.

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[Chris Poisson]

Your connections sound correct, is your video playback set to FW?

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