Monitoring SD 16x9


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Monitoring SD 16x9
by ric shellhammer on Jun 9, 2006 at 2:23:52 pm

What I understand about the Kona products is that they scale down HD material for letterbox viewing on a SD monitor. Does the same apply for 16x9 SD footage. In other words, can I use our existing monitor (no anamorphic viewing) and view it in letterbox using a Kona output? Bottom line here is that I'm upgrading our edit bay and looking at all options. Most work is still SD but building for the near future.

thanks,
Ric Shellhammer
Pegasus Productions

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by Erik Lindahl on Jun 9, 2006 at 3:46:28 pm

The Kona-card will not converter 16x9 Anamorphic SD material to 16x9 Letterbox SD. It's a feature I wish was there though.

When editing HD you have the option of converting it to SD Anamorphic, Letterboxed och center-cropped.

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by Erik Lindahl on Jun 9, 2006 at 3:46:54 pm

The Kona-card will not convert 16x9 Anamorphic SD material to 16x9 Letterbox SD. It's a feature I really, really wish was there though.

When editing HD you have the option of converting it to SD Anamorphic, Letterboxed och center-cropped.

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by David Battistella on Jun 10, 2006 at 1:40:39 pm

I will second this.

Since the card uses a hardware downconverter in HD to SD mode I wonder how hard it would be to do the anamorphice squeeze in SD to SD mode. Presumably the processing power "exists on the card to do this, it's just not in the driver.

Aurora video had a letterboxing feature on one of their cards that let you mask out tc and frame numbers from burned in rushes. that was handy too.

So, I'll second the SD Anamorphic feature idea.

David

Peace and Love :)

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by Erik Lindahl on Jun 10, 2006 at 1:54:06 pm

Can't agree more David.

It would also be terrific to be able to down-convert with-out output as well (i.e down-conversion on one system to the same system)

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by ric shellhammer on Jun 10, 2006 at 2:58:21 pm

Does anyone here know if the Blackmagic products do this?

ric

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by Erik Lindahl on Jun 10, 2006 at 3:04:14 pm

I don't think so... Most Blackmagic products are (or where at least) using software-based scaling before which give me the shivers seing how good the Kona LHe performs compared to software's like Final Cut, Motion and After Effects.

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by sacci on Jun 11, 2006 at 12:28:31 am

Just to throw in me 2cents, I just got a Toshiba 20" tube TV and they had a 16:9 mode and they cost under $200. Great for editing, okay for basic (but not critical) color correction if you take the time to adjust them right.

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Re: Monitoring SD 16x9
by Ron on Jun 11, 2006 at 12:56:50 pm

The only product that does this to date, in RT, is the now abandoned Cinewave board.

Ron

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