Graeme Nattress
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DVI is ideal, but remember 720p is not scaled to fit, 1080 fills the screen (apart from the small black border top and bottom) and although the new driver for the HDLink will do interlace nicely, I can’t seem to get that feature to work here, and that’s annoying as I was the one who requested it in the first place!
I guess the BenQ would work as well, but I don’t know anyone who’s tried it. If you go down that route, be sure to tell us how you get on!
Graeme
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Yes indeed, but that’s an extra $695 for the magic box.
Graeme
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The White or Super-White settings only effect images imported into FCP – nothing else. They don’t effect the rendering of any video on the timeline.
Graeme
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It’s a higue setup allright, but should look awesome and there should be no limits to your productivity! The Deckllink card is the cheapest way to monitor HD on your FCP setup. However, I’ve heard that it’s a bit of a pain to get the Dell to monitor pixel for pixel over component, Adam Wilt had an article on his site about it, and just check that the component works good with HD because Mike Curtis at HDforIndies.com had issues with his in that mode.
Graeme
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I run dual 23″ displays and find it very useful, but I’m using one of them as a HD monitor: https://www.lafcpug.org/reviews/review_decklink.html
Graeme
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AH. That’s nice. I emailed the guys at Squared5, and hopefully they’ll get back with another solution for us, if indeed it’s possible.
Graeme
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Even if the lens is the is the full price of the camera, it’s extraordinaryly cheap for an HD lens, even if it is 1/3″. Indeed I do prefer a manual lens – they’re just so nice and easy to control that you don’t have to worry about them, however, I am reliably informed that the electronic lens on the DVX100, and the HVX200 is fully repeatable in it’s operation, just that it lacks lens stops, doesn’t feel like wet cabbage, and puts the markings in the viewfinder instead. Functionality-wise, it’s got what it needs, just lacks the precise form-factor we’re used to. I guess that Panasonic will be producing a P2 based Varicam with proper lens options and 2/3″ chips next year sometime.
Totally agree with your “million dollar question”. Panasonic have been very tight lipped about the performance of the HVX200, and it’s going to be very, very interesting what they manage to do. Cameras as compromised, and chips especially factor in price, resolution, noise, dynamic range and more, so getting the best balance is not a trivial task. If they can pull off a great balance with glass infront that’s good enough to not limit the camera even in 1080p, then we’re laughing. If they don’t, well, we’d better start saving….
Graeme
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Exactly, which somewhat proves it’s possible and Apple are just holding out on us.
Graeme
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Their codec is just a PhotoJPEG, but their own version. It works well with or without the card. I’d like to see standard PhotoJPEG work though, or interoperability reasons.
Graeme
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That makes a lot more sense. The guru at Bitjazz knows more about codecs than practically anyone else I’ve met, so if anyone can do something utterly cool, he can. However, when we get proprietary, we start to get into issues of interoperability. That’s why just the simple act of Apple unlocking PhotoJPEG would be wonderful for everyone. Martin – ever looked at the code in the RT enablers? We’re just talking over on the FCP forum about hacking around with them to see if we can’t pursuade FCP to do real time with larger frame sizes and lower compressions. I’ve tried doing this before, but failed miserably. Any ideas??
Graeme
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