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Yep. Seeing the same thing here. It’s checked, but grayed out and no quicktime plays out to the NTSC monitor.
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[Felix] “When rendering from AE the Apple 10bit codec turns out waaay brighter than it should.”
Strange, for me, the white levels with this codec were too low.
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[MPE] “The last G5 in my opinion will be SATA 2, PCI-E and DDR 2”
I wonder if I am currently using the last G5. The one thing I have seen NO information on lately is what happens with the pro hardware between now and when the move to Intel is complete. Will we ever see a dual 3Ghz G5? How about a quad G5? I’m not so sure. My dual 2.0s and 2.5 are going to begin to feel slow if I can’t upgrade them before late 2007….
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Sorry guys, it was indeed the Duck plug-in. I read about that in an earlier post, but I forgot about it in the heat of battle.
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Mine is the Sony KV-34HS510. It has a “DVI-HDTV” connection on it.
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Thanks for everyone’s thoughts on LCD versus CRT and the state of the industry in regards to our monitoring options, but I didn’t really get an answer to the question.
Will the HDlink work with a DVI input on a CRT, or is it only for LCDs?
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[Bob Zelin] “Chris –
the world is changing, and it does not include CRT’s. Your “crappy looking” LCD screen is what you are going to have to use to color correct with”Bob — I hear what you are saying. I am aware that the major manufacturers are pushing LCDs before they are ready and that more and more facilities and homes will eventually move this direction. However, the fact that CRTs will not be produced much longer doesn’t mean that everyone everywhere is going to trash the CRT they bought a couple of years ago to go buy an LCD.
[Bob Zelin] “Chris – will there ever be ONE ad agency, one corporate board room, one client of yours that will EVER view an HD show on a HD CRT?
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. So you better get used to color correcting on LCD monitors, because this is what the ENTIRE WORLD is going to own, and if you insist on color correcting on a hi grade HD CRT, it will not match what EVERYONE ELSE will see that owns a HD display.”My specific problem here relates to color-correcting things that will end up on broadcast or cable network television. Even though the network requires the show to be mastered in HD, the vast majority of people who see it will be looking at it in standard definition on a consumer TV. Based on your argument, that is what I should be using to judge color correction, not an LCD. There are people out there who will see it on an HD LCD, just as there will be people who will see it on an HD CRT (that they bought before the LCDs got cheap) and plasma panels. My point is that NO one at home has ever seen a progam the way it was seen in the telecine, colorist or edit suite. The suites would normally have high-end, calibrated professional monitors that would not match what the folks at home would have, yet this is accepted practice. Don’t you always want to make your critical decisions on the viewing device that has the greates range, resolution, etc. and let the “lower end” suffer the consequences of being the “lower end”?
The entire world will probably go the way of the LCD, but not over night. When the LCDs are ready, I’ll be happy to get one, but I’m trying to find the best solution for the interim. From what everyone here says, that is not an LCD.
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Wes,
There is definitely a problem here. I upgraded to Tiger (archive and install), installed the FCP5 production suite, and then BMD v5 drivers. The Automatic Duck plug-ins remained on the system from the previous setup. There was no video to the decklink card through FCP5. There IS video out to the decklink card through Quicktime playout (a setting in the Decklink system prefs), as well as video out through the Blackmagic deck control app. Once I removed the pro-export plug in from the FCP plug ins folder, I could get video to play as it should through FCP5. I also tried removing all the automatic duck stuff and reinstalling it, but that only made the video out stop functioning in FCP again. I thought about reinstalling the previous version of the decklink drivers with FCP5 to see what that would do, but the BMD website says they are not compatible, so I can’t check that. Doesn’t look Iike I’ll be able to point the finger for you, but there is definitely an incompatibility with Decklink V5, FCP 5 and Automatic Duck.
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Hey,
Thanks for the info. Apparently I forgot to check the email notification for this thread…I was wondering why I was getting no response! Your observations in the first post match up with what I have found so far. The trouble with the multiple offline editor thing is that the short film stuff we have done before with this particular director is very stylized, and takes more time than a straight forward edit. It makes it easier to meet the deadline if the offline can be split up, but he doesn’t seem to like it much. I was hoping I could tell him that everybody does it that way… oh well.
Thanks again for the info. If you think of anything else that might help, I would appreciate it.
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Wes,
I have FCP5, a Decklink, and your plugins on a system that I can afford to mess with. Let me know if I can help with any testing to get this issue resolved. I have a couple of other systems that I haven’t updated yet, but really want to work right when I do!
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