External monitoring through AJA IO

Is it correct that Color cannot be monitored throught the AJA IO? I don't wanto to believe that it's true! But in fact mu video output selection is disabled. If this is the case what options do I have?

This has been a known condition since the program was first included in the FCS suite.
It became a concern right away with individuals who had been relying on porting FireWire out of their computers into DV cameras, and monitoring the camera decode. Final Touch, the Apple-acquired original application, was never intended or anticipated to be used with anything other than a PCIe Video I/O card or a high-end, dual-port GPU. It was fully intended to be a specialty application with unique hardware requirements, and priced that way, but it got released "into the wild"...
jPo

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Motion playback on production monitor through AJA Kona LH card looks nasty.

Okay, so here's the deal.
We have recently invested in some shiny new things to equip an edit suite - a Kona LH card and a Production Monitor. Along with a Sony HDV/DVCAM VTR. Specs of our set up are listed at the bottom.
Pretty much all of the work we have done in the past has been non-braodcast - we're looking to improve workflow and quality of final output. We work mainly with Final Cut Pro, but also with Motion.
We have connected everything and have marvelled at how much of a difference it makes having a proper video preview from Final Cut (v. 6) as opposed to what we had before - firewire to camera to TV... Of course we were expecting this marked improvement.
We were also expecting the key benefit of a video preview output from Motion.
Now. We do get a video output through to the production monitor from Motion. But this is where it gets weird.
When we do a preview of an animation, it looks really shoddy.
As a test case, let's take a basic text crawl in Motion 3.
Static graphics look great, but when you play motion graphics, the image quality is really jaggy and nasty. (even at full frame RAM preview, best render settings, full res - all of these options are apparently properly selected).
So we did some test exports. Usually we would export animations in the Animation Codec, with an alpha if intended for compositing on top of a video track in FCP... we tried a bunch of different formats - animation, photoJpeg, DVCPRO 50, Aja 2Vuy, Uncompressed 10bit...
All these play from Quicktime on the computer monitor just fine, but when playing from the AJA TV app to the production monitor, again the same problem. And then when you bring them into Final Cut, the same problem, even when you match the sequence settings and field order to the source video ...
In effect, it seems that anything generated in Motion just doesn't want to look nice on our Production Monitor - even when imported into FCP.
HOWEVER - if you drop the Motion PROJECT into an FCP timeline, all is fine!
We know the AJA card and the Monitor are working because of this fact, and because when you generate titles from within FCP itself - the same text scroll, for instance, it looks perfect!
I have also found when working with old composited animations originating from AE that you can get FCP to pump these through to the production monitor beautifully when working in an uncompressed sequence setting - or in an Animation sequence setting. (For an Animation sequence to go the the production monitor from FCP, the Video Playback option in A/V Settings needs to be set to "AJA Kona 625i25 RGBA" instead of "AJA Kona 625i25 8 bit" or 10 bit).
The above point could be of relevance...? The only Video Output options from Motion or AE that apply to our setup and monitor are "625i25 RGBA" and "625i25 DV-RGBA" ... are we supposed to have more options?
In short, we could work around these issues - it just doesn't seem right however that we can't get a decent external preview from Motion. A big reason for upgrading our setup was faithful video previews of animations from these programs...
We also can't understand why exports from these animation programs can look so poor. I can export a video with a text crawl generated from a DV PAL Final Cut Project with DV Pal compression settings and it looks massively better playing through AJA TV than our test Motion exports.
It just isn't right.
Please help. Pretty please.
For reference, here are the specs of our set up:
Apple Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Equipped with Kona LH Card
JVC TM-H1750CG Production Monitor fed via SDI (have also tried component, to no avail)
It just isn't right.
Please help. Pretty please. Many thanks in advance.
For reference, here are the specs of our set up:
Apple Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Equipped with Kona LH Card (version 5)
2 x 23" Apple Cinema Displays
JVC TM-H1750CG Production Monitor fed via SDI (have also tried component, to no avail)

Sounds like you are seeing interlace artifacts - in Motion's project properties, have you tried setting the field dominance to None?

Viewing on SD external monitor through Z1

Hello all,
I posted this same message a few months ago but then went away so it went off the boil, hence my repost so apologies for that. Here's my problem, I'm trying to colour correct on my broadcast monitor. Initially the project was HDV but i downconverted to SD. I have connected my Z1 through firewire 400 to the computer and then the Camera is connected to the monitor by an S-Video cable. I have done this before with a PD170 and it has worked fine, but with the Z1 i get no signal on the camera or monitor. The monitor says no Sync, but if i try and play back a tape from the camera it shows up on the monitor.
My settings for the Z1 are
Rec Format – DV
Rec Mode – Dvcam
Component - 576i
i.link conversion – on
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A/V - DV out - on
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I'm pretty sure the HDV cameras won't do this even though you've down converted. i.e. the hardware to transcode DV digital coming into the FW port on the camera to analog isn't there. You'll need something else. The coolest thing I've seen for HDV users to monitor externally with is Matrox's MXO... very cool little box. That way you could monitor the HDV in SD all day long.
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Audio monitoring through AJA IoLA

I have just started using FCP and am having trouble monitoring audio during playback of clips in an existing timeline. I am using an AJA IoLA as my D/A interface and everything works perfectly except for audio playback. I have my video monitor and my speakers coming directly out of the AJA. Video works fine all of the time. Audio works while capturing but not once it is captured.
I have read the instructions many times but it does not seem to address this issue. Oddly if I choose "external video-still frames" I can hear the audio but only get a still frame of video. This is not helpful. If I choose "external video-all frames" I get moving video but no audio. Again, not helpful.
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So, what exactly are your sequence settings, your export settings and what are you sending the Audio and video to?
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Basically, if the audio is following the video and the video is making it out, you either have
a. no audio in your clip
or
b. the targeted audio device is not set up to receive the signal.
or
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Hello,
I'm working with dailies that are ProRes LT 2K resolution (2048 x 1152) for an offline cut. I'd like to use an HDTV 1080P for a video monitor (a regular HDTV, not a broadcast monitor). From what I understand, I can use either a T-Tap or an UltraStudio Mini Monitor converter to send video signals to the TV set from FCP.
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I can only speak to the T-Tap...that's all I've tested. It works great with FCP...and AJA works with 2K footage, scaling it down to 1080. I'm not sure if the mini monitor does this, or if you need the Decklink 4K for that.
No other converters are needed. That's all you need....either one.
I will say that AJA has a better track record of compatibility...they seem to be the first ones there with drivers for the new software and updates, and the most stable with edit systems. And their tech support is top notch. That, to me, is worth the extra cost.
Contact Tech Support at AJA.com and ask them if it will work wiht 2K footage in FCP...they'll give you an answer.

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same results:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192
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800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 85.0 72.8 75.0 59.9
720x400 85.0
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640x350 85.1
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1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 72.0
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720x400 70.1
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I am having trouble with my monitor not PLAYING during playback. I get an image when I scroll through the timeline but when I play - the image is frozen.. As soon as playback stops, the monitor refreshes to the correct frame - but it doesn't show during playback.
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2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
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Yes, I am routing my external monitor through my DV deck, which is not an HD deck - so again, that could be another weak link in the chain.
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I think you may be onto something with the graphics card concept. The problem I am having only exists when I am working on an HD project. When I switched back to DV-NTSC then the monitor is fine during playback.
Yes, I am routing my external monitor through my DV deck, which is not an HD deck - so again, that could be another weak link in the chain.
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Hello
I and using Premiere Pro 6 on a Mac Pro with a Decklink Extreme HD card.
I can view the Program on the external monitor through my Decklink card without a problem but when I switch to Source monitor I can't.
I regularly did this in Final Cut Pro for clients to see the rushes on the big screen but can't seem to on PP6.
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What's your source footage?
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Also who do i set premier to dual screen editing?
In premier preferences under the media tab i see the intermediate media timebase is set to 29.97fps drop-frame. The footage i am using is 720p60.
Does this effect how Premier is handling my source footage? If not what does the window effect?

What is the correct set up so that i can make PP default to sending the stream to the external on every project?
There is no way to set this on a project basis; it's per sequence. You must use one of the Blackmagic sequence presets to enable external monitoring from a sequence.
Also who do i set premier to dual screen editing?
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In premier preferences under the media tab i see the intermediate media timebase ... Does this effect how Premier is handling my source footage? If not what does the window effect?
That dictates (or is supposed to, anyway) how imported media that does not have a specific timebase/frame rate should be handled on import. As far as I'm aware, this only affects image sequences--I've never seen it have any influence on an imported video or audio file. Even if it's set wrong when you import an image sequence, you can reinterpret the image sequence once it's in your project. Simply right-click it and select Modify > Interpret Footage. If you don't use image sequences, I think you can safely ignore this setting.

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Jesse Koepke wrote:
Interesting. And the monitor can only go as high as my computer can, correct? ... Am I right in thinking this?
No, not necessarily. I believe all Intel iMacs have the same specs for driving external monitors through the mini-DVI output:
*Support for external display in extended desktop mode*
*Digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200*
*Analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536*
*Support for external display in video mirroring mode*
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacEarly2006.html
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacLate2006.html
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacMid2007.html
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