Dalen Quaice
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Look at the AJA Kona2 card… it will do upconversion.
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There seem to be a lot of CRT HD consumer monitors at Best Buy:
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Just my opinion but a consumer monitor isn’t suitable for color correction because it doesn’t have SMPTE Type C phosphors.
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A lot of people giggle when you say you are using Final Cut Pro, especially if they have an Avid. The perception is that Avid is the be-all-end-all of high end nonlinear and that Final Cut Pro is an amateur tool for wedding videos and home movies.
It all goes to show that people who have AVID have more money than brains! 😉
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Not right now. If you need that, you might look at the Kona2 card.
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BTW, also remember that your Sony J3 won’t playback AFM hi-fi audio channels from betacam/betacam sp – so these tapes will only have 2 channels of linear audio.
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If you want to use the PC platform, you are probably best off sticking with Premiere Pro instead of Vegas if you are planning on eventually doing an HD conform using one of the Decklink cards.
You can use the Sony JH3 with the HKJ101 optional firewire output to downconvert to DVcam in real-time and then capture via firewire into Premiere. You could also capture via SDI from that deck to a decklink hd card. You will certainly need a RAID to conform in HD later as a single firewire drive is not enough speed for HD.
To work with HD in Premiere w/ Decklink HD, you need a “server” type Dual Xeon motherboard such as the Supermicro X5DAE, X5DA8, or X6DA8-G2 and 2 GB of RAM. A standard PC motherboard is not sufficient.
As far as the decklink card goes, if you plan on producing both a standard def and high def from your final hd edit, the Decklink HD Pro dual-link is ideal because it features the best hardware downconversion of all the cards and can output both standard def and high def at the same time. This can be a great workflow time saver if you are going to output to both DigiBeta and HDCAM copies of your program.
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The only time that I have seen “No Video Input” on a system that has been working properly is when there is a format mismatch – that is, the decklink could be expecting a format other than what you are sending from your deck.
Do post back when you solve this issue as we can all benefit from the solution.
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Do you want to capture/edit in high definition or in standard definition?
Decklink support of high definition on Vegas is limited right now I think.
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LOL – they stopped selling that software ages ago… June 30, 2002!