Monitoring DVCPRO HD 30pn

I am interested in monitoring HD coming out of a new 8 core mac pro (which I don't own quite yet). I shoot DVCPRO HD 720/30PN and edit in FCP 6.0.6. I talked to someone at blackmagic and they said their cards don't support 30P (or 30PN) and I would have to drop the footage onto a Blackmagic 720p 59.94/60 timeline if I was to use their products. Would this result in long render times and resolution loss? Is there a better product to monitor my footage with? any suggestions on a good small HD monitor?
thanks for any help
power mac g5 dual 2.7 /4 gb ram (for now) osx 10.5.8 fcp 6.0.6 4TB esata enclosure
macbook pro 2.4 ghz 4 gb ram Mac OS X (10.5.8) FCP 6.0.6

It won't monitor it at all? because I have used the AJA Kona cards and the Matrox boxes and you can monitor fine, you just need to set the VIEW options to 720p 59.94. Not the sequence settings. Works fine.
Just for monitoring? I have and like the Matrox MXO2...there is the MXO2 LE if you need cheaper with less audio options and the ability to input video. or the MXO2 Mini if you only need to monitor. Or the AJA Kona LHi if you want another option.
HD monitor? How expensive can you get? Because pro monitors range from $2500 - $50,000. But with the MXO2 line you can use HDMI and the built in calibration tools to make a decent HDTV look good.
Shane

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So the big advantage of using a capture card is that you can capture in a different codec, like DVCPRO HD. It's easier to edit with?
Yes. That and you can monitor your footage in real time on an HD, or even SD monitor, although you'd need an HD monitor for color correcting. And you can also output to tape to a variety of decks.
What about real time play back? I can see that now on another monitor. What advantage is a capture card?
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DVCPRO HD 29.97 vs 59.94

i hope this is not a stupid question. i recently had a shoot where we shot DVCPRO HD at 30p. When I ingested the video from Log and Transfer, it came in at 59.94. Should my timeline be DVCPRO HD 720 P60 or DVCPRO HD 720 P30? I made a timeline of 720 P60 and edited this way but can not view it on my sony (non HD) monitor thru firewire. Is there a standard way to bring in the footage in L and T? Should pull down be checked or not? I had a problem with some clips so I removed the checkmark. Last question..can I copy and paste my DVCPRO HD 59.94 timeline into a DVCPRO HD 29.97 timeline (in order to view off my monitor) without any issue? Thanks.

we record at 720 30p (not native as i recall) but in the bin, the clip info says 720 59.94.
Yes....exactly. Sorry...but I have said this again and agian. NO MATTER WHAT FRAME RATE SETTING AT 720P YOU CHOOSE...BARRING THE NATIVE SETTINGS...IT WILL BE RECORDED AT 720p60...at 59.94fps. ALWAYS. 24p...30p...60p...will be 59.94. Because 720p is a 59.94 format.
But if you shoot P2 in one of the NATIVE formats it will record in THEIR frame rates...24p for example will record 24 ACTUAL FPS...at 23.98. 30p will be 30fps, at 29.97fps. If you shoot 30p...30 NORMAL p...it will be recorded at 59.94fps.
You did NOT shoot 30pN...so your footage, at 30p, is recorded at 59.94fps...because that is the frame rate of that format.
does that mean that the checkbox was unchecked and it was just brought in at a different fps?
No. It was recorded at 59.94fps. The camera recorded it at 59.94fps, because that is THE FORMAT OF DVCPRO HD 720p. 59.94fps. Period.
if so, what impact does that have editing that material at 59.94 on a 720 30p timeline?
You are removing every other frame...and have to render when done. Since with 30p every frame is doubled, removing them won't really have much of an impact at all. If you need to deliver 59.94, then you are hosed. But from all the posts you have given, I doubt you will be doing anything beyond DVD or web. So don't worry about it. Edit in the 30p setting if you want.
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Not knowing ANYTHING about what you are doing. That's a pretty big issue. Sorry, but you just seem to shoot and capture and then ask questions later. You don't study the camera manual to see what all the settings are (and the camera comes with a great book by Barry Green...you should be reading that)...you don't seem to know anything about FCP. No reading of the manual there. And dispite all of the advice we give seems to go over your head. And we all explain the most basic things, in the simpliest way possible.
You really need to stop trying to edit, and go somewhere and intern...assist. Learn on the job. Have people show you how things work. You are jumping in feet first without any clue what you are doing. If I went and bought a hammer, nails, and lumber...and without ANY training whatsoever, decided to build a house...It'd be a disaster. I wouldn't have any supports at angles (ok, so I know that much), I wouldn't know how far to put the beams, the struts, how to anchor them to the base, how to make doorways or windows...how to add electrical systems, plumbing...roofing. But if I went and APPRENTICED...then I'd learn from the bottom up...on the job, from people who know what they are doing.
Editing is a craft...a complicated craft. If yo just grabbed a handicam and used iMovie...then you'd doing fine...simple editing and shooting. but grabbing a camera that shoots 82 different formats, 4 different frame rates...you are digging yourself DEEP into a hole. You need to get a grasp of the basics before you go mucking about in different frame rates.
i believe the checkbox (pulldown) is what is turning that 30p into 59.94, correct?
No. REMOVING means to "take away." If you shot 30fps and then ended up with 59.94 (60) fps...that would be ADDING frames, right? No. Pulldown refers to getting 24fps into a 29.97 format. Film to video tape. SO you can only remove pulldown from a 30 frame format...in the case of HD, that would be 1080i. 108oi runs at 29.97fps. And if you shot 24p...it would be 24p with pulldown in a 29.97 frame rate. If you REMOVE PULLDOWN from that...29.97, NOT 59.94, you'd get 23.98.
Did what I say make no sense? Then you need to not be dealing with it. You need to keep things simple, or intern somewhere that will teach you.
also, when you say cadence, what would be noticable?
If you shot 30p...but at 59.94...then used it in a 30p sequence? No, you won't notice anything.
thanks for your patience here.
Sorry...it is gone. I had it, but it is gone. I am going to restrain myself from answering your questions again. I think that a short answer will do, but because you lack a basic knowledge of any of this, it doesn't work. It doesn't sink in.
Shane

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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.
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When we do a preview of an animation, it looks really shoddy.
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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).
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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.
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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)
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I'm assuming it's no longer HDV.
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If you choose that.
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Up until now I have been able to use my external monitor while editing. I recently got a 20" HDTV with HDMI and a jack to use it as a computer monitor. I notice that once I set my VIEW option to ALL FRAMES in FCP, it will only show me a frame at a time until I stop the playhead then the shot will pop up wherever I stopped the playhead.
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I have uploaded the original art used, an exported .jpg file from the FCP timeline and sample photos of 2 different monitors to show to show this problem as best I can. http://www.smmlv.com/testproject/
Someone out there must have had this problem before. There's no way a color shift problem like this with Mini DV has gone on this long without someone seeing it.
One last thing about what I have tried... I do understand that with editing in Mini DV instead of uncompressed or HD video I lose a bit of resolution (4:2:2) and I see this compression occuring in some of the areas in the video where these problems persist. But, I did remake the art and rerender this project in an 8bit uncompressed settings and then displayed that up on the screen and I get the same color shift. I keep going in circles trying to find the culprit that is causing the delema.
PLEASE HELP! There are large tours going through our facilities daily and the large screen projector is displaying this problem as well. Let's just hope they don't notice and that their TV's at home or office does not display it on our final DVD's made.

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It's best not to double post to keep your question all in one thread so we don't have to go through everything from yesterday again.
Go check your other post.

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Dunno, but I'd have it redone for sure. Sort of sounds like they may have used an analog output from their player to a capture card, and doing that can degrade the signal. The File size is odd though. Can't quite figure out what happened there, but in any case, I'd have them redo it. Have them capture via SDI or Firewire, and use FCP to do the job.
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I just project the desktop through a projector and it looks awesome. It's the fewest compression cycles you can get assuming you shot in DVCPro HD.
However I too am experiencing choppy playback from QT 7.2 on MacPro's. In fact playback of any format is choppy under QT7.2!
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