FCP video card for HDMI and S-Video real-time monitoring
by Carl
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Jun 25, 2007 at 4:24:21 am
Hello,
We will be setting up a new FCP editing computer whic will be used to edit mostly in HDV. A lot of our projects are edited and mastered in HDV, but usually (for now) we downconvert them to SD for DVD usage. So we are looking for the best/value hardware solution. We will be viewing the HD footage on a Sony 40" LCD with HDMI input, and a Sony CRT monitor with S-Video input. We would like them both to show realtime from an HDV timeline.
The only possible solution I can come up with at this point is a Blackmagic DeckLink HD Extreme ($995) outputting to S-Video to monitor and SDI to a Blackmagic HDLink converter ($445) to HDMI monitor.
Is this the only solution? Has anyone tried a similar approach? Will this setup keep sync? Would AJA's new IoHD work for my needs? I don't think I can justify it's price though just for HDV editing....
Re: FCP video card for HDMI and S-Video real-time monitoring by Uli Plank on Jun 25, 2007 at 5:24:47 am
Why not get yourself the Intensity Pro from Blackmagic? It has both analog and HDMI. But check with them if it can provide SD to the S-video and HD to HDMI at the same time
Re: FCP video card for HDMI and S-Video real-time monitoring by Carl on Jun 25, 2007 at 12:32:50 pm
Thanks for the suggestion, but the Intensity Pro does not downconvert to SD monitoring in real-time - which is what I need. It does do HDMI, which is half of what I need, but I like the fact that the larger cards also do hardware rendering support for HDV...
Re: FCP video card for HDMI and S-Video real-time monitoring by Dream Master on Jun 25, 2007 at 1:32:34 pm
Just a thought, but if your deck or camera that you have hooked up to it, should be able to do s-vid pass thru. I run dual LCD's via DVI, and a CRT via my DSR25 S-Video Passthru....
