Chad Brewer
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[Teresa Brown] “You have been of no assistance and are only presenting yourself as arrogant and condescending. “
In the context of this forum, I don’t think Bob was being arrogant or condescending.
You were the one that used the term “broadcast” in a broadcast video specific forum and that was Bob’s way of telling you that you have a computer monitor that is not suitable for broadcast color monitoring.
Read the user manual for your monitor, that is as far as calibration will go for a computer monitor.
Chad Brewer
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Assuming you’re not feeding your Kona and the HDW-2000 a common sync (if you are, make sure it is correct on both for the frequency you’re recording and the deck is set to REF IN), find the REF setting on the deck and set it to video in/input video – that will lock it to the video in.
Does that stabilize the recording?
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Good news Neal!
Thanks for posting back that your problem was solved. It’s frustrating sometimes when we all try to help each other on the COW and then people never follow up…Then none of us know if the posted solution worked, or if it was wrong, or what the real fix was, etc.So, let’s get back to real business….that pint you mentioned.
Cheers.Chad Brewer
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I’ve experienced EXACTLY what Neal is experiencing – no realtime scope readouts and the play/pause luma changes.
I was working with 4:4:4 RGB footage and my color space/bit depth settings weren’t set right for what I had in the timeline.
Go to sequence settings and then the tab for video processing. Change your render settings there. That’s what fixed it for me. I hope that fixes it for you.
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Mark has a great quote here:
“Practically speaking, you really don’t know, or want to know, how the sausage is made at the station.”
Hopefully nobody who acquires and edits video at high quality and delivers spots for broadcast while not knowing that most of it ends up as MPEG2 is reading this.
This is the perfect reason to make sure you show your client your final deliverable in a proper monitoring situation before it goes to air. That way, when your client sees it on TV and says it doesn’t look right, you can say “hey, wasn’t me.”
One of my personal favorites is when I see a spot on a national network’s SD channel that is anamorphic.
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
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Yes, like Bob said, call them. We deliver to MTV all the time – keep in mind most everything they will accept requires closed captioning as well.
Yesterday I couldn’t find the delivery specs for A&E TV that I had last summer. Without a current contact there, I was left to call the absolute lowest rung on their ladder – the receptionist at their Manhattan office who of course had no idea what a broadcast delivery spec sheet was. After being transferred through many layers of people in scheduling and programming, I finally ended up with a person who emailed me their specs before I even hung up the phone – ALL 59 pages of their specs…
Keep in mind that network delivery specs are not only guidelines you must follow for each network, but also very detailed explanations to the myriad of ways they have to reject your program. Some of the big networks (not MTV) really get off on rejecting programs for arbitrary reasons.
A guy I work with had PBS reject the end credits on his documentary because the same person was listed twice for different roles he played in the post-production of the film…That seems logical, right?
Chad Brewer
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It could be a bad monitor, but check with your reseller that this monitor is running the appropriate firmware and/or update.
The reseller who supplies our TV Logic monitors always has the latest/appropriate firmware for each model and has the ability to tap in to the programming via USB, factory PGRM, etc.
Hopefully your monitor is not bad at which case it should be replaced at no cost.
Chad Brewer
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You can’t edit to tape via any deck with firewire.
You can print to tape via firewire and that’s why you had success before and with your laptop which of course was firewire out.RS422 device control is necessary to utilize edit to tape functions.
Chad Brewer
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“all the buttons are grayed out”
That’s probably a device control issue.
Ensure your RS422 is properly connected between the Kona and the Digital Betacam deck.
Ensure your FCP device control setting is set for Sony 29.97 (either A or B) and withing that setting that it is on the preset for Sony RS422 protocol and hasn’t been switched to something else.
If those two things are setup correctly and it still has the edit buttons grayed out in the ETT window, try this trick – with the ETT window open, select the device control tab and change it from whichever Sony 29.97 setting it is on – either A or B, to the other one and then back to the original one it is set on. You should see the edit selections enabled now.
If the first to things I mentioned are setup correctly, this is the trick for when the Kona and deck RS422 communications are hung up which happens from time to time with these cards…
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
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Good news you can still work with the audio and its not low beyond repair.
My next question was going to be whether the playback off the camara was boosted to disguise a low recorded lav level.
Nonetheless, good news you don’t have to reshoot anything…
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
TeleVersions, LLC