[Carsten Orlt]

Thanks for your response Gary.

Yes maybe using analogue to the monitor would be the solution, but it would defeat the purpose of buying the monitor in the first place.
I got it so I can see the 1080i signal fully digital and 1:1 to be able to really access the sharpness and possible defects. I already noticed that just looking at the down converted SD picture doesn’t give you all information and some shots looking ok in SD are not ok in HD.

Lets see what Aja might develop in the future as it happens with all LCD’s be it $500 or $20,000.

Cheers

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

Nope, no speakers on the monitor.

I have the feeling I need a audio delay processor, which I have seen for home theater setups. They have the same problem 🙂

Still I can’t find any reliable information that my explanation is correct?

Cheers

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

BenQ FP241W

I know I know, not the super duper thingy, but if you want to save yourself a lot of money to be able to see your HD 1080 (or whatever) at 1:1 this monitor is pretty amazing and surprisingly accurate in the colour reproduction.

After a long search and not having the money for the big guns I settled for this one.

And to be honest I’m glad I didn’t spend 10x as much for the others. Grading is done in SD anyway.

But don’t take my word. Always do your own testing 🙂

[Carsten Orlt]

Only reason could be that FCP in the transfer sets those parameters automatically for P2 material?

But I don’t really know 🙂

[Carsten Orlt]

Thanks for your response Jeremy.

Sorry for not being clearer 🙂

I send 1080i25 from the HDMI ioHDconnector to the LCD (using a HDMI to DVI-D adapter and connected to the DVI-D input on the monitor)

SD via RGB into my SD CRT

Audio via analogue into my mixer

Looking at the LCD HD and the SD CRT side by side the LCD has the delay.
Because the audio is in sync with the SD CRT it is not with the LCD HD.

[Carsten Orlt]

don’t know about the audio channels…

as for QT display: when you open the property window in QT (apple-j) and select the video track and then the visual settings > you see the exact size of the clip and what size it is displayed at.
As far as I know is that if QT knows the clip is anamorphic it adjusts the display size (not changing the actual size but just displaying it differently) to show it to you in the correct aspect ratio.

You can even change the display size to what ever you want. It never affects the actual size but just the way it’ll open in QT. Be sure to save the changes (if you make some) for QT to see them the next time you open the file. FCP is not affected by the display size of QT.

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

Dooh…

Jeremy is of course right: AES/EBU digital is only via BNC connectors!
they are separate from the XLR analoge inputs!!

you can tell I have not used them yet 🙂

so connecting via XLR to get digital audio in is futile.
if the JVC vtr only has XLR digital outs then you need an adaptor to connect to the BNC inputs of the ioHD

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

in danger of stating the obvious and not yet used the Digital inputs:

in the aja control panel select the input tab and choose which audio inputs you want.

test not using fcp: in the aja control panel select the control tab and select ‘input through’ from the ‘default video output’ selector > if your audio is working correctly you should have audio coming out the outputs of your ioHD (all of them) also you should have meter activity on the front of the ioHD.
for this to work neither FCP or aja tv should be running but you need to start up the compi and have the ioHD connected.

in fcp make sure the audio input is set to aja ioHD in your capture settings (but i guess you have that because otherwise you wouldn’t hear analogue either).

fcp has no separate setting for audio input other then selecting the ioHD

last thing i can think of is there might be a menu option in the jvc vtr which lets you select which audio output is active (don’t know the machine)

that’s what i would check. after this i would contact aja, and if they can’t help reinstall the drivers.

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

didn’t they say the same thing when Avid revolutionized the post workflow….

same rant heart to many times..

and the only thing that comes across is that you BULLY other people into your believe system!

it doesn’t help anyone…

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

have you tried to use AJA TV (little app you get with the driver installation) to play your QT clips? By using AJA TV you’ll force the audio of your clips through the ioHD, and this way you don’t need a mixer or dual inputs on your speakers.

The problem with audio latency or in this case better called delay is that the video has to go through through the ioHD and gets delayed due to processing. If the audio doesn’t go via the ioHD and gets synchronized within the ioHD the audio arrives basically not synchronized with the picture.

Because of firewire the delay is noticeable. So give Aja TV a try. (little tip: if your client wants to double click his files to always open them in AJA TV rather then QTplayer, you can set file(s)/type of files to always open with a certain app = contextual menu>hold option and the open with command changes to ‘always open with’

Carsten