Re: Highend tools - lower end budget

[Jaymags] "I have an on-screen SD waveform/vectorscope - which I'm planning to use alongside my setup (going to be either Kona3 or IoHD) for monitoring downconverted HD. Any gotchas? Will the downconverted HD signal fed to the 'scopes be useful for correction purposes? Better/worse than the internal 'scopes?"


Actually, correcting for the SD output isn't a bad solution. If you are going to end up on SD anyway, this can even be better as you will be legal for SD.

If you are correcting for an HD output, you won't be seeing the full HD signal, so you may be over correcting the signal when you don't have to. I wouldn't do this for a film out job, but for everything else you can get away with it.

Yes, the external scopes are better. They are RT even while playing video. And most external scopes give much higher resolution views of the signal allowing you to see individual speculars (highlights).

BTW: How do you know what is coming out of the Kona card REALLY matches the internal scopes?


Terence Curren
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