Playback on JVC Monitor

Hello all, I've purchased the BR-HD50 and the DTV 19 inches monitor both from JVC, now everything is going fine but I cannot have any kind of playback from FinalCut through firewire. It will do a Print to video, but when I am editing, the option to : Playback Option : HDV (1280X720) 30 fps is grayed out in the AV settings of FinalCut
Anyone outthere with the same set-up?
Shot in 30p with The JVC GY-HD100

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=33410 Has a read on this... Look toward the bottom of the article about monitoring HDV.
Jerry

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Ask the camera person to record at the normal 720p50 setting on the camera, and the normal P2 or Quicktime setting on the recording media.
As for the footage you already have, there is a method in Compressor, to get it to 50fps.
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The tape deck and monitor are connected via component cables, and playback is fine while playing HD footage in the deck. In FCP, I change the easy set-up settings to HDV - 1080i60 and capture footage fine. When I start editing and want the footage to playback on the monitor, all my video playback options are grayed out under the Audio/Video Settings (except for Desktop Preview). The only way I've been successful in getting my HD sequences to playback on the TV is by changing the easy setup back to DV-NTSC while editing. However, doing it this way letterboxes the video on the monitor and degrades the footage. Any help would be appreciated.

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Shane's Stock Answer #25 - HDV external Monitor Viewing
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HDV cannot be played out of FCP via Firewire because it's Long GOP structure is too taxing on your processors to spare the system resources needed to drive an external monitor.
The best option you have is the Matrox MXO...$1000. This coupled with an Apple 23" display gets you color correction quality...but, it isn't compatible with COLOR yet. www.matrox.com
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Motion playback on production monitor through AJA Kona LH card looks nasty.

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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.
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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!
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Please help. Pretty please.
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Apple Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
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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
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2 x 23" Apple Cinema Displays
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#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
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Techinially, this should send synched video to your TV
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!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/VideoPB_FW.jpg!
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I think that you are relating your own playback experience and one that may not be particular to all users or fair as a general statement about PPRO
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Well, I'm just going by what I've seen in the past few years. When Premiere CS4 came out I had an Intel Quad Core 2.66 Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, Intel motherboard and an Nvidia 7950GT card. Playback was fine in Vegas, skipped frames in Premiere. Then on my current machine, an AMD 1090T 6 cores @3.2 Ghz, G.Skill 16 GB of RAM, a top of the line Gigabyte motherboard, and at first an ATI Radeon 4850HD, same thing, Vegas played fine, Edius much better (but nothing beats Edius in speed), and Premiere CS5 stuttered like crazy. Now, same machine but with an eVGA GTX570 instead of the ATI, Windows 7 x64, fresh install just one day old. Premiere CS6 does the same thing. If it's my machine, I have no idea what could it be, but the fact that it did the same on two different cards on this machine, and that Premiere CS4 used to do the same in a totally different machine, plus the fact that two other NLEs didn't have that issue, tells me Premiere has a problem at displaying video inside the GUI.
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