[Bram Tulloch]

Hmmm.

I’ve looked at the settings you’ve mentioned and they are listed under “importer options” and don’t seem to have any affect on the video signal output according to the waveform monitor I have attached to our HD Cam SR deck.

I’ll provide some background on the material and work flow.

It was originally 2k film log DPX frames which were then resized to 1920×1080 and converted to REC709 colour space in Shake (done by our colour geeks)

These new REC709 HD dpx frames were then played out to tape 4:4:4 dual link.
We have then recaptured these frames 4:2:2 using our HD Deck’s frame convert (Which doesn’t scale illegal values) and we have edited some material together and are attempting to play out again 4:2:2.

As this is showreel material, it’s possible that this may end up going out for broadcast so I want to make sure that the values are legal.

Perhaps I need to revisit the generation of the REC709 HD dpx frames and ask that they be made broadcast legal, but I was kinda hoping that the AJA Xena would be able to help me out here.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great!

Thanks
Bram

[Bram Tulloch]

Using the “Visual settings” trick seems great, but double check that your playback doesn’t become “steppy”.

We thought we were onto a winner here with that work around but then noticed all the clips we had done this on didn’t playback so nice anymore.

[Bram Tulloch]

Not in front of my machine right now, but your analog output setting in the control panel…
If you’re using component into your monitor, shouldn’t you try and set your analog output to one of the component settings?

You list that your analog out is outputting composite not component.

[Bram Tulloch]

Just going through some old threads to try and solve my problem which is essentially the same as this one.

Did you ever solve this issue?

I’m trying to import many DPX sequences and can only do it one by one as you describe as well
Thanks

[Bram Tulloch]

We’re having the same problem
I can save presets though and they work fine.

But is there any way to get the preset to become the “default”?

All our Kona Cards “default” to NTSC when we come out of Final Cut, and display bars. Or sometimes, half black, half bars. It’s weird.

Engaging a saved preset fixes this, but it would be great if we didn’t have to go to the presets at all and we could save a default setting.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!