[Tim Allison]

Thanks, Shane. That is exactly the info I wanted to get. We have one HD suite with a Panasonic LH2600W. Now it is time to bring the other two suites in our shop up to HD. Before buying for the other two suites, I wanted to look at other options. I saw the JVCs at NAB in April, and they looked great. The JVCs also spec out better (on paper) than the Panasonic LCDs.

[Tim Allison]

To answer your questions, Shane, this monitor is primarily for the editor to use. So I guess that means that there will be some color correction work done on this monitor. But let’s be real….we rarely do color correction work. If somebody screwed up and failed to white balance, and we absolutely had to have that shot, yeah, then we would do some color correction. But unless something is obviously wrong, in our shop, the color a properly white-balanced camera gives us is good enough.

We will have a capture card…it will be either a Kona 3 or an Io-HD (when those finally come out.) For our situation, both of those have a HD-SDI port available to connect to the monitor.

We really like to have two computer monitors in our editing system. If the Matrox MXO forces us to lose one of those, then I’ll go with one of the LCD monitors.

Since you failed to mention the Panasonic, I assume you like the JVC more than the Panny. From what little on-line shopping I’ve done, the price for these two seem to be very close.

[Tim Allison]

Bogie,

That got me where I needed to be. I was able to scale the video back up to where I wanted it in the “motion” tab. Thanks.

[Tim Allison]

It was a pixel aspect ratio issue.

[Tim Allison]

I shot it on a Sony HDV camera as 1080i video, but converted it to DVCProHD 1080 when I ingested the video into FCP. Does that matter?

[Tim Allison]

Mike,

You described EXACTLY what was happening. I’ll go check to make sure my settings on drop frame/non-drop frame are the same on both camera and FCP.

[Tim Allison]

It’s been a long time since I’ve dealt with this, so I can’t remember all of the terminology.

But If I remember correctly, audio channels 3 & 4 are AFM audio, which means that the audio is somehow recorded as part of the video signal. Therefore, you MUST record video at the same time as you record channels 3 & 4 for it to work.

Try recording video along with channels 3 & 4, and then go back and lay down 1 & 2 on the second pass.

[Tim Allison]

I tried “crashing” in using the “capture now” button….same result. It stopped in the exact same spot. One thought I had….could this be a drop-frame, non-drop frame issue? If my camera is recording drop frame, but I’ve told FCP to use non-drop frame, will FCP get confused when it comes across that spot where the frame got dropped?

[Tim Allison]

Crash capture is what I want to avoid. If you crash capture, you can never reload your project from the original media again. We presently use the component-out from the HDV deck, and take that into our Kona card. Even with that hookup, we still use the FireWire for machine control. That’s not an issue.

I guess my real question is, can you batch capture using the HDMI connection from a HDV deck thru a AJA Io-HD? Then, if for some reason you need to reload that media from the original tape, can you recapture again directly from the FCP project file without having to re-enter the in and out points of each shot?

This is no problem with Betacam and RS-422 machine control. Will it be a problem with HDV via HDMI?

[Tim Allison]

The very first thing that you need is some sort of HD monitor. You simply cannot edit HD material without some sort of HD video monitor. Honestly, the same thing goes standard def editing too. You have got to have a video monitor. That little window within FCP is not good enough. If funds are tight, I would spend here before I spent money on an Io HD.