Shane Chadder
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Graham
There are some decks and cameras (especially Panasonic) that will add setup in the actual digital signal during recording, and strip it off the digital signal in playback if you set them.
It makes no sense as it just compresses your range of digital values.
Just last fall I had a camera op. go through the menus of our Panasonic DVCPro 410 and turn setup on thinking he was correcting us. Of course a firewire capture had all the black high and we had to fix it in post! By the same token if someone plays with the deck menus on our DVCPro50s – 930s and 950s they can add setup or crush the blacks on the recording of an SDI signal by changing setup values in the menu.
It may not be a good way of recording but the machines are made to do it.
Shane
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Yes. It’s leaping from a tall building to concrete. If you use some 8 bit AVIs it comes crashing down. Neither Black Magic or Targa 3000 clips that worked in 6.5 will work in 7. I’m told there are others but these are my main file formats.
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BlackMagic tech. usa found my problem with the FrameStore. Quicktime wasn’t installed on the host computer.
Shane
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This isn’t just a Black Magic problem. We are having the same thing with 8 bit Targa 3000 files that also work fine in 6.5.
It is an Adobe problem, but when will they fix it! Patches from Adobe are few and far between. It seems like they’d rather leave something broken than admit it ever was.
Shane
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Hi
We have the TH37PHD-8UK.
I find monitoring to be a very personal issue so I wouldn’t want to second guess what will work for you, but it works for us.
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Hi Adam
We use a 37″ Panasonic plasma in one suite, and Dell 24″ in the others. The contrast and saturation is amazing on the Plasma, but it isn’t quite as sharp as the LCDs because they are pixel mapped one for one. I think there is a slight video processing delay through the plasma that I don’t notice with the LCDs so we keep a crt handy to be sure of sync.
Our main editor prefers the plasma, I like the Dell so I can see any noise…clients love the plasma, and we don’t want them to see the noise 😉
Shane
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I’m not seeing this. You mean if you apply cropping, render, then change the settings the changes don’t happen??
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Sorry Adrian I’m losing my mind. The DV source bug is still there. I accidently setup an 8 bit project.
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Keith
I can’t get the framestore to work either. No images show up in my list. I’ve never tried it before so I might be doing something wrong. But the downconverter seems to be working, video only, like 2.1. I’m on Windoze.
Shane
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I upgraded the software and firmware last night, but haven’t tried out the downconverter. I’ll try and test it later and let you know if my results are the same.
I don’t even know how to use the framestore.