Shane Ross
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Shane’s Stock Answer #25 – HDV external Monitor Viewing
To view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink offers. They have this to say:
“Blackmagic DeckLink v5.0 includes a host of new features including full support for all the new features in Final Cut Pro HD
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Yes Andy, I made DARN sure I got the PCI-X dual 2G. Thanks for your concern. That was one of my things to look out for when I got it. Yes, it has 4 pairs of slots.
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Already in possession of video cables, SD CRT monitor for non-HD color correction, Studio Speakers. If your budget is $6000, you can get the cables and speakers and, if you wanted, a small mixing board. Oh, plus maybe a film look plugin by nattress.com or Magic Bullet.
About the mixing board…would be nice but unnecesssary. All it would be with footage captured without a capture card is audio control. I use my speaker controls for that.
HD Monitor. Yes, that is a big missing item, but one of the reasons I have the Dell 2405 HD monitor. I have my old CRT Computer monitor that, when the CC phase comes along, I can use to view my workspace as I then view my timeline on the Dell via Cinema Desktop Preview. But, I cannot use the cor color correction. Unless I get another $8000 for an HD capture card (Kona 2 or Decklink 4:4:4), HD Link (SDI TO DVI) and Fibrechannel drive array, I will not be doing the final color correction. I will either hand my drives to a post facility that will then drop it into a 10-bit 4:4:4 HD timeline, CC, render and output. Or output to tape and have them CC from the main tape. Since the preliminary plan is to CC on a DaVinci, I am thinking that we well be going to a post facility to uprez to 10-bit, output to tape, then CC.
You can read about my process here:
https://homepage.mac.com/comeback/iblog/Work/B787268209/index.html
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I have a budget of $5000 to upgrade my system to handle DVCPRO HD. Here’ what I did:
REFIRB Dual 2G G5 – $1650
Applecare – $300
FCP Studio Upgrade from FCP -$800
Dell 24″ 2405 Wide aspect Monitor – $900 (on sale)
G-Raid 500GB – $550
G-SATA – $550
+2GB RAM – $200Squeaked in just under $5000. It was the cheap G5, the FCP Upgrade, Dell on sale, and good prices at B&H Photo (and NO SALES TAX) that allowed me to do it.
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Nope. This is the way it is. That window is just a reverence window…a majority of the system resources are allocate to capturing the footage. Your captured footage looks fine, so what is your problem with this?
Use an external monitor if you need to see it full quality…
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Just FYI, MAYA renders much faster on a PC. I hear it is also more stable. This from my graphics guy, and a few visual effects houses…
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Yeah…Since you are a student, don’t all those textbooks you pay a MINT for tell you anything about what your exams will be about?
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OK…number one…do not call that the Ken Burns Effect or Technique. He was by FAR not the first to use movement on pictures. That technique has been around LONG BEFORE he decided to foray into documentary filmmaking. In my world we call it Motion Control, because it usualy involves a motion controlled platter with a camera attached. The camera points straight down on a moving platter than is controlled either by a computer, or manually. Two lights are mounted on either side at a 45 degree angle. I have also heard it called “movement on stills.”
The Ken Burns Effect is the term iMovie uses for this effect. The use of that name is done because Ken Burns brought documentary filmmaking into pop culture, and make it so the masses liked to watch them, and not a select few. He didn’t invent the technique, just people know who he is.
This effect can also be done with scanned images within FCP using keyframes and the Center and Scale controls, or using Aftrer Effects.
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As well as being an editor, I also know TONS of editors. I can tell you, if one showed up to work in what the corporate world calls “dress casual,” we’d all ask “who’d you interview with today?”
Mainy we are in jeans or shorts, t-shirts or short sleeve button ups (being LA and hot) The occasional Oxford, but over a t-shirt and sleeves rolled up. A few times I have seen ripped jeans, but not often. I know a guy with a black mohawk who dresses all in black and wears combat boots…but he is the nicesst guy, extremely creative, and clean.
The biggest this is cleanliness. There are ads out here on the radio that guarantee that a clean plumber will show up at your house…bathed and in laundered clothing (I am guessing that is a problem in plumber-land). As long as we dress neatly (an un-ironed shirt is acceptable if you work long hours and have 3 kids) and bathe regularly then we are fine. There have been a couple times that I know of where the editor was warned about his bathing habits and then fired. I mean, I know we are all introverts for wanting to sit in a dark room staring at computer monitors for 8-10 hours, but really, take SOME pride in your appearance.
But this dress code goes for pretty much everyone in the BIZ out here, minus the Producers. They are always in a suit, or dress casual.
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Fooo….that’s a tall order! I am an editor and I am not quite sure what the techniques really are. I think that is up to the academics to go “THE CRUSHMAN TECHNIQUE” or whatever.
DO you mean like the narrative style, the documentary style, the MTV style…or something like collision cutting…pacing?