Nick Gardner
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Hi,
Just to be clear – hands down the best HD monitor for field use that is 12v and handholdable is the Panasonic 8 inch. It has an anton bauer plate on the back, has a built in wave form and is as acurate as any monito I have seen in color and black levels. It can be mounted on the camera but I usualy find it easier to mount it on a stand next to the camera. The only drawback is lack of daylight viewabilty, which is easily fixed with a piece of black cloth or a shade. The astro is good, but i feel that the off axis viewing is better on the Pana and I think the blacks are better as well. The Pana is also cheaper.
All I can say about SD monitors is that on the HDX900’s down coverter, and being familiar with the camera, I am pretty happy with the Transvideo Rainbow ultra bright (Focus maybe not so much, but I think focus should be judged by a good ac using math over any lcd monitor smaller than 17″. Thats just my opinion I may be wrong.
Cheers,
Nick
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Hi,
Are you looking for a client monitor, a monitor to judge image by, or an onboard reference mnonitor ? The Panasonic HDLCDs are superb, but difficult to see in the sun without a shade, and are a little to big to mount on the camera. The Marshal HD monitors are trash. They look different if your head moves 1 mm to the left, and what passes for black looks very milky. In the SD world, all the transvideo monitors are fantastic and you can see them at noon on the equator with no shade. I have only used the astro (back to HD world) a few times, but was dissapointed with off axis viewing and lack of acurate color and density reproduction. I have not used them the Blackbird and Humming bird monitors get excellent reviews, however I believe they are SD only.
Over all I think the Panasonics are the only monitors in the smae league as CRTS. I own both the 8″ and the 17″ as well as a 17″ CRT, and have used just about all the monitors out there. Transvideo is going to be releasing an LCD HD monitor soon, but it will most likely be upwards of $4k for a 6 inch monitor.
Hope that helps,
Nick
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Hi guys,
Perhaps I was not clear. I am sure that the US deliverable is 1080i 59.94. I was just saying that PBS, and The History channel require – and I can’t say that it is for all shows – a second deliverable at 108024psf. This is for EU consumtion. Just as they often require a textless version to put new graphics in what ever language the show will be aired in on. since the original post said that they needed a 24p master, I thought that might be where that was coming from. As I said in my original post, I am not sure about Discovery.
Sorry if I created more confusion than there already was.
Nick
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Hi Bob,
The History Channel, PBS, and I am pretty sure the Discovery Chanel, all want 1080psf HDCAM Masters, and all the new HDcam decks record this format. This is the most universal format and the reason they request it is for international distrobution. I think the “PSF” causes the confusion because it stands for “progressive segmented frame” which I think is a fancy way of saying it’s recorded at 1080i but you can get your 24 frames back out of the the tape using voodo and chinese math.
Cheers,
Nick Gardner
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I believe that the JVC monitor comes standard with the component HD input. If you have a deck link or similar card, it should have those outs. Or you can use an AJA HDSDI to component HD converter.
Cheers,
Nick Gardner
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At 24fps in a 50hz country you need to use a 172.8 degree shutter, or 1/50th of a second. The HDX 900 can set the shutter to 1/50th using synchro scan. This should work out fine at 30fps as well. The other option of course is to shoot 25fps at half shutter which of course works out to 1/50th shutter speed.
Have fun,
Nick Gardner
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Hi,
You may want to check out the JVC 17′ crt. It looks spectacular and is very affordable.
JVC DT-V1710CGU 17-inch HDTV Monitor
I love mine.Nick Gardner
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Hey Sean,
Email me off the forum about this. I have some info for you.
Peace,
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Tony,
I am truly sad that you are such a prick that you can’t just let this go. Good luck with your work for QVC and athletic infomercials. The whole point of all my posts to you has not been technical. It has been about your arrogant pissy attitude when presenting them. Just for the record, I have been working in this field for more than 15 years. Not as a dit, not as “location sound”, but as a DP. As in all things in life, you can not be truly good at something unless you commit to it. You have apparently commited to being a prick, and at that you truly accel.
I reckon I am done with the cow. God bless and God speed.
Happy new year. ( Hey Sean, how about some back up)
Nick “Just chill dude” Gardner