Scott Buford
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Not sure what is happening with your AJA box.
One suggestion though. I know on some of the Panasonic projectors I’ve worked with, there is the option to change from YUV to RGB color space, and vice versa. If you haven’t already, you might want to dig through the menus and see if you can adjust this. It’s hard to tell from the manual, but try “System Selector” under the Picture Sub Menu.
Hope this helps.
-Scott
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I would second Walter’s recommendation of a dedicated unit if possible. If you can’t afford to purchase a KiPro, there are many rental houses now offering them.
I would caution against using On Location for Live Events. I have had issues with it in the past with dropped frames, causing me many headaches in post re-syncing audio.
Currently, when I can’t use the KiPro, I have been using the Motu HDX-SDI to a Macbook Pro via Final Cut and have been very happy with that.
Hope this helps.
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Phil,
We have a SPRO II in house and I regularly use it for shows with 1 or 2 and even sometimes 3 (if absolutely necessary) cameras. It’s obviously not ideal, but most group’s budgets aren’t ideal either. Once you have acquired, configured and saved your input, the Screen Pro II is much quicker in bringing up inputs to your preview bus than the SPR-2000 is, and I very rarely not able to achieve the look or effect I need. Hope this helps.
-Scott
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Walter is absolutely correct. I should have been more clear. I was referring to non digital cinema options because I assumed that was not appropriate for Thomas’s workflow.
Thank you for the clarification Walter!
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From what I understand the only way to playback native 4k material is by syncing 4 playback devices
Doremi recently came out with a standalone 4k playback device:
The DSV-J2 with an optional input called MB-4k
https://www.doremilabs.com/dsv.html
It has 4 DVI and 4 HD-SDI outputs that you use simultaneously.
Hope this helps, and keep us posted.
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If you’re going the DSLR route and don’t want to rent, you might want to look at the new Canon T2i.
It has a nearly identical sensor to the 7D, the HD video from it looks outstanding, and at a price point of $800 it’s much more financially attractive than the 7D.
Good luck!
-Scott
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What kind of lumens range are you looking for?
Do you have a requirement for DLP vs. LCD?
What is your price point?
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I think your biggest hurdle here is going to be finding a video playback/media serverish system that supports multi-channel audio. Even the high end media servers like Hippotizers and MBox extreme only support stereo audio playback at this point.
I have limited experience with the two software solutions you presented, so hopefully their tech support will get back with a multichannel audio solution for you.
If not, I can see two other non budget-blowing options. One would be to have two DT labs playbackpro plus systems running off a sync roll. One could playback your video track with your audio that will run through the PA, and the other could play back basically a “dummy video” that will play the click track. Not the most elegant solution, but it would avoid the more costly solution of having seperate audio and video playback units with timecode sync, etc.
The other option would be if you have a lighting control desk that has timecode capabilities. You could have an audio playback system to playback your audio tracks, you could play them through an audio interface like the MOTU ultralite which could generate LTC timecode for you. This timecode could be fed to the desk and then used to cue the video playback in sync from Arkaos mediaMaster, which is a more cost effective (in comparison to Hippos, etc) dmx controllable media server.
Hope this helps, sounds like a cool project.