[Tim Gibbons]

David!

That did the trick. Thank you so much. I don’t think I would have tried the 1080i options for 24p(f) footage.

Thanks again.

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Hey guys,

I really appreciate all the input on this. It looks like the TV Logic 24″ is the way to go. I don’t want to keep spending money on this tired CRT even if it is still viable. I hate the idea of spending $700 more for something that is so difficult to support (considering that JVC was so incompentent with their support in the first place) So I I’ll be dumping the component input card (IF-C01COMG) and the HD-SDI card (IF-C21HSDG) on Ebay in the next week or so unless any of you are willing to make a fair offer.

Thanks again.

Tim Gibbons

http://www.timgibbons.com

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks Le Coyote but it’s definitely the picture tube. It’s toast. Looking at different monitors now. Interested in an HD/SDI card for the thing?

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks Shane,

Good information to know. Matrox never got back to me yesterday. I’ll check into the HD Link with Blackmagic today.

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Shane,

So do you recommend the HD Link as highly as the MXO? Do you think it could be paired with the 23″ ACD and be used for color correction? The HD Link was a SDi input to DVi so that would couple great with the Decklink HD Extreme. No need to give up a DVI port on the Graphics card too and I am running a RAID so the issue with adding an additional graphics card and slowing down the bus would be averted too.

Thanks for the insight.

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Well guys,

It’s been a month, I finally got the monitor back from JVC. When I received it (I personally picked it up in California, I was on a job in LA) the tech said; ‘your tube is getting kind of old. It might fail soon and it’s not as sharp as some of our LCDs. We don’t have any replacements tubes so once it goes . . . .’ Well after having just been charged over $550 for the repair I was concerned and I asked the guy; ‘Well is it usable? Does it display accurate color, hue, contrast and brightness?’ ‘Oh yeah. That’s all fine. It’s just not too sharp.’; he says.

I travel back to Salt Lake, hook it up to an SDI source out of my Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme card and low and behold it looks like utter crap. Think bad VHS. There are no true Blacks just dark slate greys. The whites blow out, smearing into the rest of the video if you try to raise the brightness or contrast just below detent so the overall value of everything is a low-contrast under-exposed image. I have a Sony 10″ HD CRT field monitor and I looped through that to see the difference and the comparison makes it obvious that the 19″ JVC has at best not been adjusted properly and at worst, serious issues. How anyone could let it be called “repaired” and charge a customer over 1/2 a grand . . . . .

So there we go guys! After over two months since the monitor went down it still doesn’t work. I’m out another $585 and I have to edit with a little 10″ HD monitor. I have the JVC monitor with a local tech to see what he can do . . .

Thanks JVC. You guys are an utter joke. . . . on the level of snake oil salesmen.

Tim Gibbons

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks Guys,

Your advice made me realize there is no easy solution. I ended up having a friend just dub the tapes to DVCam directly from a HDCam deck. Can’t wait for the 2/3″ XDCam HD camera. That’ll make everything easier.

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks Guys,

Your advice made me realize there is no easy solution. I ended up having a friend just dub the tapes to DVCam directly from a HDCam deck. Can’t wait for the 2/3″ XDCam HD camera. That’ll make everything easier.

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks for the info but I need a solution that doesn’t meaning buying hardware. The editor isn’t interested in buying a capture card. I was thinking of having a friend who owns a HDCam deck to capture the footage onto an external drive with Final Cut Pro (and capture card) into a DVCPro HD codec. Does anyone know if Vegas can read a quicktime file from a mac in this codec? Do Vegas and FCP play nice?

Tim

[Tim Gibbons]

Hey Nick I ended up buying a JVC DT1900CGU. I’m waiting for an input card to test it out but I notice that there isn’t a “blue only” nutton. How do you calibrate your monitor to bars?

Tim