Component out for recording vs SDI for editing...

[gunleik]

I had some bad surprises the other day when recording dancers in an all white and lit studio for a training movie.

I monitored the shots through component out to the Panny 17" (720) HD monitor.
As I'm in PAL land, it was shot in 1080 and the monitor was set accordingly.

The monitor is set up

In the studio all whites were white. (Hooray!)

Back in my editing room with the same monitor but watched through SDI and FCP, the whites looked... all but white. (OK not far off, just too far off)

It was fixable, but quite annoying.

Is there a different calibration for the component and SDI inputs?

Or am I just overlooking some big issue here which I'm too dumb to understand? (I can live with that, as long as I don't keep on doing it)

Basically: Is the component out on the HVX crappy, or am I?

Gunleik

 

[robbo]

Ok - but tell us the full story.

What are you using from fcp to go sdi ? aja, black magic - which card ?
Some setting in the card software is the first place I'd be hunting.

god, this game is a maze of connections these days, I sympathise ... I'm soon going to be dropping a bundle on a new rig in a couple of months and I'm not looking forward to the teething trouble either.

edit: try outputting some bars from the camera and compare against fcp bars as well.

 

[gunleik]

I'm using the BM DeclinkPro HD 4:2:2 single SDI card with FCP 5.04 on a 1st gen 2x 2 GHZ with 6 Gb RAM, 620 Gb internal disks and a 3,2 Tb external SATA RAID, Dell 24", Apple 23" and the BT1700 Panasonic Monitors. I have 10 kw of lights, (4kw fills and 6 kw assorted) all with 3200k bulbs, and it was shot in a white dancing studio.

I've used the card (and the monior) with the Varicam with excellent results...

BUT, I'll double check te setup on the monitor with the bars from the HVX.

I bought the Panny monitor specifically for this use, if it's not close to precise in colors through component, I guess I'd be better off with the Dell on set, due to its full 1080 resolution?

But for now I'll go on searching for where I messed it up. The Camera bars once over seems like a good place to start.

Gunleik