[Paul Belanger]

Are you saying component out of HDV deck looping into a DVCPro deck?
How is timecode going this way?
Why do people mix these formats. Uggh

[Paul Belanger]

Unfortuately I have about 18 hours of HDV so I don’t think I can render all that.

[Paul Belanger]

I don’t have that converter.
I wonder if anybody rents it in LA.

[Paul Belanger]

Thanks David

So I can usse the Kona 2’s DVCPro HD preset.
I’ll need to find out what fps to use.
I was told that the other DVCPro HD footage was captured at 10 bit.
Can this be right?
The DVC Pro codec says 8 bit.

[Paul Belanger]

I checked out a Panasonic LCD TC-26LX50 at Magnolia.
It looked great and had just the right specs I was looking for.
I bought it cheaper elsewhere.
Upon hooking it it to my system I found a problem.
At the store everything looks great, but in real world situations
I’m not so please.
If you view the monitor from a 50 degree angle which I would
is how my system is st up, the picture looks bad.
It however looks great straight on.
Panasonic toughts there monitor as great quality at wide angles.

“Great Image Quality at Wide Angles
Some LCD displays require the viewer to sit within a very small sweet spot for good image quality. Move too far to the left or right and image quality drops off sharply. This LCD TV features an extremely wide viewing angle of 170

[Paul Belanger]

Thanks Luke
The Sony WEGA KLV-S26A1 does seam to have the right specs for the job.
I’ll have all my component and S-Video equipment going directly to the HDTV
and HD equipment using the HDLink and HDMI on the HDTV.
I will definately test the set well at Magnolia, thanks David.

Paul

[Paul Belanger]

I was thinking of getting a Sony WEGA 26″ HDTV.
It only has HDMI.
I will definately have to go check one out and see what it really looks like.
Stores only like to play HD video on their HDTV.
I’ll have to get them to display SD.
If that looks decent enough, then I have no doubt using the
HDLink with SDI and HDMI would be even better.

[Paul Belanger]

I’m running X 10.4.1
I have rendered the black clips and they show up as nothing.
I’ll try repairing permissions. But that seams odd.

[Paul Belanger]

Can you think of a setting in FCP that I might have wrong?
I know I must have something wrong on my end.
This is too weird to be a bug.

[Paul Belanger]

OK I figured out the solution.
There is a little NTSC/PAL switch on the back of the Sony DSR 11 and 25 decks.
When I set the deck to PAL it works fine now in FCP.

But an interesting point is that it plays out to a monitor just fine
and is controllable through firewire when it the deck is set to NTSC
and playing a PAL tape.

What is the true function of the NTSC/PAL switch?

Thanks to all those COW people for their help.
That’s why I love posting to the COW.

Paul