Weird monitor problem

[Shane Ross]

This happens on the BROADCAST monitor? It shouldn’t. But this is typical of the Canvas and Viewer:

Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback

ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.

1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787

Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

Sure about the External Monitor?

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Bret Williams]

[Shane Ross] “Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.”

Your post is relevant, however that advice from Apple is a little dated. I notice the post began in Jan 1999! FCP was released in august or sept 1999. Strange. I wonder if it was updated to include FCP’s mention.

[Bret Williams]

Hey Richard,

Sounds like you just need to render those stills. Haven’t used the LH, but the IO is typical that way, especially if it’s not a perfectly formatted tif, psd, etc. like a jpeg of a bizarre size.

[David Roth weiss]

Richard,

If you have moved the stills at all using the motion tab make certain that the stills reside on an even vertical line with a whole number such as 166 rather than 167 or 167.33.

DRW

[Richard Martz]

Thanks Guys. The problem is in the moving footage also. Last night I output the sequence through compressor to an MPEG 2 File to see if this was a monitoring problem or something actually that would wind up in the video. In the MPEG 2 everything looked fin so that gave me a bit of a comfort factor. In our production design no stills move. This is a DV timeline (did I mention that?). It is just completely annoying. I did have one open sequence and closing that made no difference. I’ve monkeyed with field dominence and with changing the sequence from interlaced to progressive and nothing helps.

Richard Martz
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Richard Martz] ”
Thanks Guys. The problem is in the moving footage also.”

If you’re working in DV, then you should be using the DV-NTSC (or PAL) Easy Setup and then change your Video Playback to the AJA Kona either 8bit NTSC or 8bit PAL depending on where you are.

This should result in clean playback of the signal.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Richard Martz]

Thanks, Walter. I’m in Buford, GA just like you. Maybe we could get a beer sometime. (Although I rarely drink beer- perhaps that is the problem). I’m doing everything exactly as you suggest and I’m still getting this very odd anomaly. I’m confident that it will not exist in the final output file. So i’m not too worried about it right now but I do want to get it solved.

Richard Martz
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[Walter Biscardi]

I’m really busy this coming week but possibly the following week I might be able to help you out. Give me a call this week, number is on my website.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Richard Martz]

Thanks a Million Walter! I’ll call you week after next.

Richard Martz
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[Richard Martz]

Thanks a Million Walter! I’ll call you week after next.

Richard Martz
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