Laptop monitoring solution?

[Farley Scott]

Any further word on that laptop monitoring solution? I'm a ConnectHD user and would love to try it. Thanks.

[Phil Wright]

Scott - We are doing some limited beta testing at the moment. I'll contact you directly.

Phil

[Josef Crow]

would this be limited to a PC or would a mac work as well?

would it have to be a super face laptop?

thanks

[Heath McKnight]

Phil is with AspectHD if I'm not mistaken, which means it's for PC only. I believe...

heath

[Phil Wright]

It is for PC only and it needs to be fast enough to decode the full-res stream in real-time.

So if your laptop can playback one of the transport streams generated by the camera in VLC or some other MPEG2 player with at least a little bit of CPU left over it will probably work.

And that's correct Heath. I work for CineForm.

[Dustin Cross]

Any possiblity of getting software vectorscope and waveform while monitoring HDV on the laptop? We use FCP on a laptop for this with DV and it is great since we can't afford hardware scopes.

[Troy Lamont]

It looks like Ulead's HDV plugin will do monitoring also on the PC side, but I don't know if it will be fullscreen or not.

Troy

[Sylvain Pallix]

Hi,

At this time, you can use Paul Glagla's Captureflux for incoming DV sources.

It's a freeware. And you can use live picture coming from the camcorder in fullscreen at full speed on a 2 GHz laptop


http://paul.glagla.free.fr/6.htm


In French and usable first for direct capture on Notebook.


Try it !

Saylvain Pallix

www.repaire.net

(French Site about video, more than 28 000 members)

[David Newman]

Is that software DV only? HDV is a different issue, although the idea is similar. I sure that tool could be upgraded.

[Heath McKnight]

I just noticed that, too. DV.

heath

[Sylvain Pallix]

I think Paul Glaga has no access to HDV camcorder for a release. I will ask him.

Look in my post, i had precised in the first line for incoming DV sources. By waiting for the tool from Cineform, you can use Captureflux with Y/C câble from the JVC camcorder to a compact convert Box (analkogue to DV) like Canopus ADVC-55 (pocket size).


Message for David Newman, are Aspect HP and Connect HD PAL ready now ?

Sylvain Pallix


www.repaire.net

(French Site about video, more than 28 000 members)

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[David Newman]

Sylvain,

The CFHD codec can handle just about any format. HDLink -- the CineForm capture/convert utility -- will happily convert 720p30, 480p60 and 576p50 without any issues. However, converting the 576p25 is problematic today -- this will be adressed soon. With this one exception Connect HD is ready today. Aspect HD has many more real-time tools than Connect HD, these tools are being finalized to support the p60 and p50 modes that will be part of a free upgrade soon.

[Patrick Keith]

For the Mac folks (like myself) I ran across this on the iMovie page the other day:

iMovie also lets you take greater advantage of other members of your digital hub. Do you use iSight? Now, if you train that lens away from yourself and towards another subject, iMovie can capture that video stream. That’s right, iMovie will import live audio and video from iSight and place it in the Clips pane (or directly into the Timeline), where you can edit it just like the footage you capture with your camcorder.

I don't have iMovie 4 yet to test this function out with a different FireWire camera than it suggests (iSight). If someone has tested this, let us know. My new Powerbook should be here in time for my first weekend of shooting and I'd like to give it a try as a monitor.

Um....of course there needs to be a pretty long cable, too.

[Heath McKnight]

Patrick,

does this have to do with cutting via HDV (the new hi-def video format) from the JVC HD10 or HD1?

heath

[Ken Hodson]

Where are we at as far as the Cineform preview? How have the beta tests worked out?
Ken