Sean Donnelly
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I’ve never heard of anyone using SDI with RCA connectors, but I assume Serge is referring to component or composite video, since no one (especially BM) would build a board with RCA connectors for SDI. I’d say go ahead and use whatever adapters you need to, just make sure they’re of decent quality and all of the same type (i.e. don’t use a good adaptor for blue and an old corroded one for red). Radioshack is actually a decent source for these if you don’t have a pro video shop nearby.
-Sean
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I use a Panasonic TH-50PF9UK for client monitoring and a decent amount of grading. Just so you know, the 42PZ85U is not one of their pro plasmas. I can’t tell you this for sure, but it most likely will have a less accurate white point, less consistent gamma correction, and probably won’t handle 24 p/psf without a pulldown applied. The one you should be looking for is the Panasonic TH-42PF11UK. That will handle just about any framerate/signal format with additional input boards. I would recommend getting an HD-SDI board and monitoring that way. With a little effort you can calibrate it fairly well, and I think you’ll get better results than the dell 2408. I’d be interested to hear how it works with HDMI from the decklink card, as the HD extreme I’m using doesn’t have HDMI.
-Sean
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Apparently it is a problem in the firmware. The camera isn’t properly compensating for the thickness of the ND’s. According to at least one person on DVINFO, the 1.05 firmware solves this. Unfortunately sony is requiring cameras to be sent to them for a FW update. Please sony, I shouldn’t have to lose my camera for 10 days for you to do a firmware update I am more than capable of.
-Sean
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That was of course in the 2k windowed mode, which is 2k bayered vs the ex1’s 1.92k RGB resolution, so it wouldn’t necessarily be the case in the normal 4k mode. Still, I’m excited to see a filmout from this camera.
-Sean
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I’m going to look at some footage soon that went through exactly this workflow. I met someone a little while back who shot side by side tests with the ex1 and the red one in 2k windowed mode, and did a filmout from each. His claim was that the ex1 transferred to 35 beautifully, in fact better than the red.
-Sean
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SDI on this camera is 1080i60 uncompressed 10 bit 422, so definitely higher quality than the XDCAM used on the cards. You will only see this benefit however if you are recording live. If you play out through the SDI from the cards, you’re only looking at the XDCAM footage over SDI, and theoretically will not improve the quality. It is a BNC connection and just about any 75ohm BNC cable will work, but better quality will allow a longer run.
-Sean
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Ben your DP friend was right, the Panasonic waveform is more than “a bit crude”. You can only use it for exposure, and barely that.
-Sean
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The JVC 24″ does work very nicely. At this point I don’t think it’s worth investing in a display that doesn’t show full raster 1920×1080 if you have the space for it, which rules out the Panasonics for me. The JvC also de-embeds timecode, and has a DVI input so you can drive it as a 1920×1200 display which is great for programs like speedgrade which does RT grading via DVI. Right now i’m using an EIZO CG241W with an HDlink pro box, since I don’t need anything other that sd/hd-sdi and DVI, and lets me generate/apply 3D LUTs without software.
-Sean
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The JVC 24″ does work very nicely. At this point I don’t think it’s worth investing in a display that doesn’t show full raster 1920×1080 if you have the space for it, which rules out the Panasonics for me. The JvC also de-embeds timecode, and has a DVI input so you can drive it as a 1920×1200 display which is great for programs like speedgrade which does RT grading via DVI. Right now i’m using an EIZO CG241W with an HDlink pro box, since I don’t need anything other that sd/hd-sdi and DVI, and lets me generate/apply 3D LUTs without software.
-Sean
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Looks to me like a Pb-Pr reversal, not sure why this would happen though. There may be an FCP filter that would allow you to reverse them.
-Sean