Kevin Wild
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Bob, I’m curious. I’ve heard you rave about this monitor before. What was so good about it? Was it the only SONY CRT monitor with rez enough to do both SD and HD?
Thanks.
Kevin
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Yes, this is something that caused me great confusion recently. There is definitely a sleight jitter if you change HDV (or HD ftg in general) to SD due to the fact that HD ftg is natively Upper Field and SD & DV footage is natively Lower Field.
Be sure to make sure your sequences match the field order of the captured footage!
To make matters more complicated, I had some footage from a Z1 I was editing and they used the Cineframe crap. Anyways, the only way to fix it was to bring it in After Effects, Interpret Footage to Upper Field Only, put it in the SD sequence and then render out lower field. Took a while and some help to get this workflow down, but it works like a charm and looks great.
Good luck.
KW
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I have this, too. It’s a little annoying, but it’s only in playout to monitor. It’s not there if you export a QT and you wouldn’t see it going to tape. Looks a little lame, so hopefully it’s fixed soon.
KW
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Oh, also make sure you have “all frames” checked under “View-External” in Final Cut Pro.
KW
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And don’t forget that the Convergent HD-Connect takes the timecode from the firewire stream and gives you a RS422 connection. Biggest reason to get this box…imo.
Kevin
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Yes and with this brand new FCP6, hopefully announced at NAB this year, it will be V1 all over again. Okay, not quite that bad, but I’m sure a new app written ground up (good info on this) for a new processor in Macs will have it’s share of bugs. I’m not one to wait, but this one, even I may sit out the first month or two. 🙂 If you buy now, the quad is probably a decent investment still, imo.
Kevin
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“YCVBS is either the composite video in, or the Y input for component. Pb is blue for component, and Pr is red for component. The / mark on Pb/Y and Pr/C
shows that the Pb and Pr can become the YC signals, which is what is used for S-Video. Yes, you will need an adaptor. You stick composite video into the YCVBS connector, and then switch the menu in either FCP (Audio/Video Settings capture preset input video selector), or the Kona Control panel.”Thank you, Bob. This is the exact info I was looking for. I did read the manual…I wish they had spelled it out like you did just now!
Appreciate the posts.
Kevin
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Thanks again, Bob. I did read the manual…of course! What information you gave me just now, though, I did not find there: “The composite video input is shared with the component Y input.” Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think it’s there. If it’s not, I guess they could make it easier, eh?
That said, your earlier post confused me. You said to change this video input setting from SDI to Composite in Final Cut Pro under the “capture preset” tabs. Obviously, you must’ve meant the Kona utility. I had already tried the composite input in the utility to no avail, but I’ll try again with the Y input.
Also, I see all the lit say it supports S-video. Without an S-video connector, I guess I need a splitter into the components. My search of s-video came up with 2 instances of no help whatsoever…just mentions of support.
I am still working all this stuff out…I’m not that technically or editorially green, but I am with the Kona…
Thanks for your help!
Kevin
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Hey, Bob. Thanks for the response, but I still don’t know what the deal is. I did get the component input working via reseating the card last night. However, I’m still totally stumped as to change to composite.
I opened Capture Preset Editor and there is no place that says SDI. I have the usual Digitizer & Input and Compressor settings. Under Input, where you’d think it would be, it only has the size & framerate options (1080i29.97 (1920 x 1080), but nothing that says SDI or Composite. Did something not get loaded properly perhaps? It’s working via SDI right now, but I need to have composite one in a while.
If/When I get it working, are you saying the SDI input on the Kbox IS also the analog composite input?
Thanks again.
Kevin
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No, it’s not copy protection. I’m coming straight out of component into matching component inputs on the Kona LHe. I’m choosing AJA 8 bit Uncompressed and I’m getting nothing or glitching. Audio is coming through fine.
While trying this, though, I realized I didn’t know how to go composite in. Any clues?
KW