[Fred Connors jr.]

Mpeg1 will play just about anywhere.

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Anthony

If you Proc the video to 7.5IRE your black level will be at 15 IRE when it hits the air.

We produce everything with digital 0 black.

You can not compensate for the DG added black with just lowering your black level, or as they said in he old days “Crushing the Blacks”.

We found we had to adjust three levels with the FinalCut Proc filter to compensate.
Setup = -0.25, Video = -0.38 and Chroma = +1.05

It is not perfect, but it is much better than no compensating.

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Thanks for the feedback Craig.

We have found the problem. And yes we are sending to 50 stations regularly. And yes we have seen the problem on all local stations.

All of DG’s playback systems default to add Setup to the Composite output of their video card. Composite Setup On also adds 7.5 IRE of black to the SDI and/or Component outputs. DG will not acknowledge this but the supplier of the video output card has acknowledged it.

This is why things look bad.

We now use a proc-amp filter adjusting the Setup down, Video Level Down and Chroma Up to compensate for the 7.5 of back being added on output of the video card.

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Most excellent…

Thanks

Fred

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[Fred Connors jr.]

Walter

What external boxes are you using with your Atto’s R-380 SAS/SATA host?

Do you know of any estimated rebuild times for a failed Raid 5 drive?

Thanks

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

I would suggest Belden 1865a to carry Standard Definition only, or Belden 1694a for High Defeinition SDI. The Belden 1694a will also carry SD but it is overkill for SD.

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Welcome…

You’ll make a great COW Leader.

Fred

[Fred Connors jr.]

We are using Episode on our Mac(s) to create the MPEG2 files for DG, works great.

I don’t see why you could not use MainConcept, just follow DG’s specs.

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Many Thanks

We’re now DGSystems Certified.

If you would like you can now up the color space to 4:2:2 and they will alos accept Variable bit rate files.

Very Nice!

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Fred Connors jr.]

Craig S.

What Resizing are you doing other than Cropping three lines off of the top and bottom?

How are you setting the Setup Level to 7.5 IRE?

Thanks

Fred

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production