Couldn’t agree more Bob. Fortuneatley, being in PALland I do only plan 1080i 1080p and SD PAL so I’ll probably end up as before – ie one-time ironing out the hardware interface problems, then prompty forgetting what I did, or even that I had them! Also as I’m using XDcamHD I hope a lot of these tape based issues won’t arise. At the moment I don’t have SDI monitoring which further hampers.
I do have a FCP display favourite layout which leaves space on the screen to see the IO control box while working in FCP, but one of things I do find confusing is what settings are retained by the control box when FCP has control of it. In other words, when I make changes in control box parameters, will FCP over-ride them when it takes control.
Thanks Alan