Gary Adcock
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[Scott Brown] “I don’t mean to be rude, however if you cannot justify spending the money, then perhasp you should not be considering HD at all – premium product / premium price, that’s my attitude.”
Scott,
it is really a fact of life, that doing HD is not cheap and I don’t care what the ads tell you HD is not plug and Play. I too come from a world where the best CRT displays cost $20K (US) and up, a good SDI broadcast display still can cost over $2k.
Funny that people think that a Broadcast HD display should cost less then the one they get for home at Best Buy (or Dixson’s in the UK)Gary Adcock
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[bob@itv] “As you know better than anyone the Kona LH does not have the firewire issue and it doesn’t offer s-video.”
Yes,The LH it does have s-video bob, so does the Kona 2
you just have to purchase that same cable you went to markertek for to get the YC out ( or s-video)Gary Adcock
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[Kevin Monahan] “for accurate monitoring with your Cinema Display”
FCP5 manual ( PDF version) Page 219
Digital Cinema Desktop Preview only works with AGP graphics cards. For triple
monitor configurations, you should use a PCI graphics card for your computer
display, and an AGP graphics card for any monitors you intend to use for Digital
Cinema Desktop Preview.Due to the refresh rate of LCD computer monitors, 1080i 60 and 720p60 material may
exhibit temporal artifacts during playback.Interlaced media is scanned progressively at the frame rate instead of the field rate,
Therefore, when viewing formats such as 1080i 60 or standard definition NTSC or PAL,
both fields are scanned simultaneously, which may result in interlacing artifacts.If you need to change your display resolution, do so prior to launching Final Cut Pro.
LCD Cinema Displays have a longer decay period between each frame when
compared to lines being scanned on a CRT. At times, the same video image may be
visible on screen for a period of up to four to seven frames.Turning on Digital Cinema Desktop playback can reduce the number of real-time
effects available in your sequence. However, the real-time status of these effects is
not updated in the Effects menu or the Effects tab in the Browser).from the apple web site
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93797If you are doing critical online editing or color correction, you may still want to use an external CRT video monitor, especially when your final output is interlaced broadcast video
Gary Adcock
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[liv2snoride] “How many HD projects are viewed on a crt HDTV? Most are plasma/LCD variety right? So whats gained by coloring on a crt? My guess is that they might have “truer” color space.”
Yes a CRT does have a truer color space remember that computer displays render in RGB, Video is YUV,
Apple does not recommend using a Cinema display for Color Correction and neither do most of the leader on this list.
it is also a progressive vers interlaced for the format.Gary Adcock
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[Mike W] “What about 10.3.9? No audio to mix down, everything was rendered & no open scopes. Source was actully rendered in After Effects with the 10bit Uncompressed codec imported into FCP”
Mike,
after I loaded tiger, I could not ever run 10.3.9 again (java alone made me upgrade my laptop).So I am assuming that you have forced the render (work in safe mode), and with a fully populated Huge array over SCSI should not be an issue. My Location machine is virtually identical ( I have a 4ULS card)
did you try reinstalling the SCSI drivers from atto?
Gary Adcock
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[Mike W] “Upgraded (clean install) to FCP 5.0.1 & Quicktime 7.1”
Mike
there is no QT7.1 and 5.03 is the current version of FCPfor 10bit UC HDcam find am using 10.4.2 / QT7.03 / FCP 5.03 and it works just fine for me.
Did you
mixed down the audio / render the file / not have your scopes open in FCP?Gary Adcock
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[Bob Roberts] “From Millimeter magazine -“
There is more info in the apple story including detailed accounts of using 720p24 masters and a Kona card at
https://www.apple.com/pro/film/murch2/index.html
Gary Adcock
Studio37
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[Scott Witthaus] “you were referring to the dual cores”
Yes I was, weren’t you?
The Io has no relationship with the PCIe Bus it is a FW based product only, so it is not affected by the PCIe changes.
If you are looking at a card based capture look into the Kona LHe which is I believe is currently the only shipping capture card for the PCIe Macs. (I do not believe the BMD products for the PCIe Macs are shipping as of today’s date, but I could be wrong)
Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA -
[Scott Witthaus] “you were referring to the dual cores”
Yes I was, weren’t you?
The Io has no relationship with the PCIe Bus it is a FW based product only, so it is not affected by the PCIe changes.
If you are looking at a card based capture look into the Kona LHe which is I believe is currently the only shipping capture card for the PCIe Macs. (I do not believe the BMD products for the PCIe Macs are shipping as of today’s date, but I could be wrong)
Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA -
[Scott Witthaus] “will the standard AJA Io (sdi version) work with the new G5’s and FCP5? I imagine there is a firmware update needed.”
Yes all versions of the Io work with the PCIe macs and no firmware update is needed apple did not screw with the FW in this machine rev.
Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA