[Del Chapple]

HDCamSR, if you have the 444 board, installed will easily crossconvert the signal to 422. 444 would be overkill for Bluray authoring anyhoo..

del

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[Del Chapple]

i believe hdmi is only 8bit (256 levels of each rgb color) and SDI can be 10bit (1024 levels). Everything thats broadcast is broadcasted in 8 bit.. for the money and if you are not grading i’d guess 8bit is fine..

del

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[Del Chapple]

i cant see the link, corporate is blocking it. you can find older sony BVM monitors for fairly cheap. but this is the one i want

https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101671

with HDSDI its around $4500

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[Del Chapple]

Does the new router have support for “salvos” (grouped outputs), easily switchable master/slave (mode3 hopefully) rs422 or can it talk to another router control head like nVision? Without LTC support you cannot drive analog decks with timecode for duplication purposses.

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[Del Chapple]

Ok. I just verified that in FCP you cannot alter the gamma levels in “item properties” for RGB codecs like animation, though if you export a yuv out of AE like prorez you can. it doesnt like you can change the gamma levels but you can.

what is confusing me is that the other day i was getting wacky gamma out of prorez..??

btw mac pro fcp6x with CS3 production prem

del

you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?

[Del Chapple]

try an adjustment layer in AE at .82 gamma. if that brings you into the ballpark its just a Gamma 1.8 vs 2.2 thing. also in FCP you can change the gamma on imported (video properties i belive) clips seperatley. I think apple is assuming all rgb to be 1.8.

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[Del Chapple]

I would recompress the video to prorez and that’ll slim down the bandwidth. Pushing Uncompressed HD over GigE creates alot of smoke breaks for me.

del

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[Del Chapple]

I wouldn’t go firewire, by its nature it has half the color 4:2:0. Component or SDI is where you want to go. You need a component (dig or analoge) signal to monitor properly to either CRT or LCD. just be aware that LCD’s do not properly show field dominance.

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[Del Chapple]

This is bugging me also. On older QT files i can find the gamma value. but i just exported a RGB animation from CS3 on a mac pro intel and there is no gamma flag in the quicktime file. its simply not there. I guess apple is assuming rgb gamma levels which is causing pc encoder issues for me..

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[Del Chapple]

im with tom above. no audio in a mono summed output typically is a phase problem. which could easily be caused by a bad solder(sp? damn no spell check!) job by reversing the + and -…

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