Ed Dooley
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Been there! 🙂
Ed[Graeme Nattress] “And you’re right – that’s where the Decklink comes in handy, but not precisely necessary. There’s many a cash starved person who’s relied on their camera for this purpose over the years.
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The D4 connection certainly does work for that, and just like some folks use their camera as their tape deck too, it’s an option
you may want to choose.
I couldn’t imagine tying up my camera just to use it as a monitor link though. My camera person would kill me, and without a camera she’d be out of
a job too. 🙂 “Sorry Wendy, until I’m done editing there’ll be no shooting”
Ed[Graeme Nattress] “You can monitor back through the camera and out component HD into the Dell monitor. No need for a HD card at all. Similarly, the Decklink HD, if you do use one, has comnponent HD output which would go into the Dell. I use a 23” Apple, so I use the HDlink. The other adv of the HDlink is the control panel for calibration. But it’s not necessary with the HVX200, nor is the Decklink.
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To monitor in HD on that Dell, you’ll need a way to get your SDI signal to it. The Blackmagic HDLink does that.
As for the drives, if you’re a G-Raid fan, why not go with the G-SATA instead. I personally would put together
an external SATA II array for the best performance. There are lots of cases, drives, and cards available. And it’s
easy, install the card, put the drives in the case, stripe them and go.
Ed[Harry] “OK. I’ve ordered my HVX200 with two 8 gig cards, and I’m apparently number 14 on the waiting list at Birns and Sawyer in LA. I’ve also ordered a Dell 24″ monitor and a Decklink HD card. I already have the latest Final Cut.
My first question is: do I need anything else to get up and running shooting 1080p and transferring files into FCP and playing them back on the Dell? This HD stuff is all new to me.
Further, about storage: I’m somewhat torn between buying two G Raids which would give me 2 TB and cost $2159 after discounts, and buying a Maxupgrade Internal Maxconnext 2TB SATA Raid at $1,779. Although the SATA array is a little cheaper, it will mean monkeying around installing a bunch of junk inside my Mac, and that makes me a little nervous.
Please take pity and unload your opinions on a mere mortal.”
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Type in – unable to connect to background process – in search posts and you’ll come up with at least 60 to 80 posts
in the DVDSP and FCP forums. It’s been covered (over and over and over and over).
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I think it’s safe to say that DV straddles the line. I *do* get it free from being on a qualified list (and a tradesperson too!).
And the articles by Chris and Trish Meyers and others about esoteric things like Shake 4 and the intricicies of the Motion interface
certainly aren’t for consumers. A strictly consumer mag wouldn’t be doing
their cover story (as they are this month) on designing graphics for HD (yes, *real HD). You might think DV’s a waste of time, but if
you really want to waste your time, read their DV Event magazine, geared towards the wedding crowd, now *that’s* painful!
Ed[Rennie] “[Ed] ” But
for the trade magazines to do it is totally inexcusable”DV magazine is a CONSUMER magazine, not a trade magazine. Unless I’m mistaken about DV magazine. If you buy it at a news stand it is a consumer mag and if it is direct mailed through qualified lists to trades people free of charge, it is a TRADE magazine. It would be rare for a trade magazine writer to make this type of error and rarer for the editors to let it slip through, but I would expect it from a consumer magazine which, even more than a waste of money, tend to be a waste of time.”
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Not to excuse it, but it almost makes more sense that a catalog would do it. The hot buzzword is HDV, and the HVX200
*will* be competing mainly against HDV products, so to lump them all together is somewhat understandable. But
for the trade magazines to do it is totally inexcusable (IMHO).
Ed[Mike Allen] “B&H winter 2005/06 Sourcebook makes the same mistake. How can they all get it wrong?
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Very true Noah, in this case though, it’s not just on the net, it’s in black and white on real paper in DV Magazine.
Ed[Noah Kadner] “If every news source on the net had correct information it wouldn’t be the net would it?
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Bob,
It sounds like the missing ingredient was a cardbus FW card. The 2 built-in FW ports share the same buss, and you’ve
probably seen the dozens of threads here on the COW about the problems trying to share them. If you haven’t already,
buy a LaCie, or other brand, FW card today! I do location editing all the time on my PB. My setup is a 17″ 1.5g, a 2 drive
FW800 array (I made it from a FW depot enclosure with the Oxford 912 chip) and 2 400 gig drives, an AJA IO LA,
and a LCD monitor that displays VGA and NTSC and PAL. I don’t really need to do location editing, but when I get
a project overseas I bring that setup along so I can stay in whatever country a little longer and pretend I’m working.
At the studio if I’m editing a Beta-SP project I’ll use 8bit UC, but on-location I use the DV50 codec, which looks pretty good.
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Compression programs have Black and White Resoration to get the blacks (and whites) back to their pre-NTSC RGB 0-255 place (or to
get it to any look you want).
Squeeze has it in Filters/Darken. Right click and edit settings. Compressor has it in Filters. Compression Master has it as a tab in Video.
In Cleaner it’s in the Adjust tab, and so on. They all affect the blacks a little differently, so play with the settings to get what you want.
Ed