18 August, 2006

Monitoring 24fps project work around

So, I got an email the other day with a question of how best to monitor 24fps for an offline with no budget for and HD monitor & not wanting to use an LCD. The idea was how they could monitor their 24fps output on an SD CRT.
The ideas I came up with are as follows:
Best I know is the following options:
- HD CRT – Rent a 14” one for under £200/week
- Aja mini converter HD10MD3, 1080 24fps in NTSC 60i out.
- Decklink converter to LCD - Although need to look closer if it does 24 fps
- Nattress Conversion Software depending on render times:
- You could speed up everything to 25fps via 4% speed increase, or media managing your timeline to 25fps.
- If everything is being shot on film, do the Telecine down to 25 ot 29.97 using 3-2 pulldown.
- Playback at 24fps and deal with the frame jump on the monitor.

In the end, they came up with an interesting work around. They set their FCP to output via firewire and hook it into a DV Deck, then loop the comp signal out the DV Deck and into the CRT. This is not a perm solution as you are sacrificing a deck just to get your output. But as an interim work around until they get a mini converter, I think its pretty clever.

Any other suggestions out there?

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