[Bob Slenker]

sorry, I forgot to mention I already tried that and it said “advised to reinstall compressor/qmaster.

[Bob Slenker]

Actually, I must confess that when trying to upgrade from Qmaster 2.0 to 2.0.1, the install never finishes. I requires a restart and before restarting it goes into an installation process but the Mac doesn’t finish it before beginning a restart. Thus, after the restart, I’m still at v.2.0. ?? I’ve tried about 8 times.

[Bob Slenker]

Thanks Gary! I’m going to move on w/ getting another display but there’s no shame in learning new things….even through our failures. =)

[Bob Slenker]

Honestly no. I had been using the component outs to feed a DVCPRO deck I have. I had just wanted the HDMI for monitoring anyway. Still do primarily SD output. I thought Gary was talking about setting up an HD timeline, laying HD footage on it and seeing if I could see it via HDMI. Oddly, the only time I ever saw my image from my timeline (HD or SD) was when I’d have the AJA control panel open and I’d click off my timeline and click on the AJA control panel. When doing that I’d see my timeline’s image on the monitor for about a 1/3 of a second. ???
Again, another monitor worked flawlessly so I’m guessing somehow it goes back to what Gary said first which was that there are different kinds of HDMI and obviously, this monitor and the AJA card don’t play nice together. A DVD player hooked to to it looked great. ??
BOB

[Bob Slenker]

Thanks for trying to help Gary. Still no success. I’ve hooked up a 37″ Vizio LCD monitor my boss had in his office and everything works flawlessly. SD, HD, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 480i..etc.
Guess I’m just gonna say this Panasonic monitor just won’t work….for whatever reason and will go get something else.
Thanks!

[Bob Slenker]

Thanks Gary.
I think I’m understanding you but I’m not sure I have the ability to change the “color rendering intent” on my monitor.
In its controls, all I can do is:
Custom:
brightness
contrast
Picture/Sound:
Picture Mode: Custom, high, middle, low
Color Tone: Normal >, R levels, G levels, B levels
Mute: off
Volume: 0
PC: Phase, H-position, V-position, Frequency
PIP (Picture in picture)
Setup:
Reset
Language
OSD Tone > Transparency
Blue Screen > off
Key Lock > off
Trigger
Auto Switching

The HDMI input is currently set to: 720x480i 60Hz, Picture Mode (Custom), Size (4:3), Color Tone (Normal)

In regards to the HDMI tab in my AJA Control panel, the settings are:

HDMI Input: no video (I don’t plan to import any video this way)
Input Video Range > SMPTE Range
Audio In Selection > 1-2

HDMI Output:
Primary > 525i29.97
Secondary > 525i29.97
Protocol > HDMI

Color Space > auto detect (this is where it gets interesting. RGB 8bit brings up decent looking color bars…sadly still w/ the flickering bottom line of noise. RGB 10bit gives me nothing. YCbCr 10 bit gives me purple and green color bars.)

Audio channels > 2 channels
Output video range > SMPTE range

Thoughts?
BOB

[Bob Slenker]

bump

[Bob Slenker]

yeah, the 170 is way more comfortable to handhold too.

[Bob Slenker]

I love my HPX170. Oddly, I think Panasonic raised the price of the HVX200A a tad recently putting it slightly higher than the HPX170.

[Bob Slenker]

This may sound stupid but does age of the codec matter? I went over to our art dept’s lab and they had one Mac w/ FCP HD loaded and it is v.4.5. The rest were running FC Express v.4.0.1 which doesn’t have/use the DVCPRO HD codec.