Seriously?
by Bret Williams
on
Oct 28, 2009 at 6:09:11 am
Ok, tell me this isn't true. I just got the mini, and it does a great job at up/down conversion.
But does it seriously not output jpegs to the monitor? So I have to have a client come look over my shoulder at a tiny little image of the jpeg for them to make a decision? That's ridiculous. I found the same to be true with the old AJA IO. What's the deal here? I thought I was upgrading from a DSR-11 as my main interface, but it appears I'll have to hook it back up to preview jpegs on the monitor. Is there a way to make this happen through the mxo2 mini?
I was also hoping that when editing a show of mixed frame rate material that the 720 24p and 720 30p could both be previewed from the viewer to the mxo2 output, but no, only the one that matches the current output. Seems like it should take whatever the heck is in the viewer and manhandle it to show it on the client monitor. Jeez. At least scrubbing different frame rate material shows up. But jpegs don't show up at all. Surely I'm missing something here.
Re: Seriously? by Andy Mees on Oct 28, 2009 at 9:26:02 am
I'd just drop all those JPEGs into the timeline Bret, then you can easily skip between them to isolate which images the client would like to use. For a quick view you can also throw an image in the timeline using F12 (superimpose) and then Cmd-Z to undo afterwards.
Re: Seriously? by Bret Williams on Oct 29, 2009 at 6:48:44 am
Well, sure but not a very professional solution. When bins are often sorted on the fly by name or size or whatever. But it doesn't do it and I guess I have to live with it, eh?
Re: Seriously? by Jack Jones on Nov 1, 2009 at 1:26:20 pm
Why not have a bin for all you images and just drag the bin to a new sequence. You can then flick through them with the up/down keys and all will look good and proper. Sure it's a frustrating work around but it works!
