Premiere CS3 Intensity PRO and Cineform Prospect HD = video monitor
 

Hi dvinfo comunity. I would like to have some tips on video monitoring for my worksation, that´s what i have.

WINXP pro sp2
Quad core 2.4
Asus P5B premium
3Gb ram
Intensity Pro
ATI sapphire X1950pro 512mb (02 DVI out and 01 S-video)
Hard disk sata02 01 system / 01 render / 01 audio / 03 or 04 raid0 for media
Monitor LG 22´ widescreen LCD 1650x1050
Next buy : cineform ProspectHD

I don´t have the system working right now, just waitting to buy the case and 2nd monitor..
My question is. What is the best way to monitor? I know that with cineform on premiere i can´t monitor over intensity pro. What about my s-video out on the ATI sapphire?could i connect a 14´CRT tv (i don´t have the money for a broadcast monitor)? or it´s better to use my second DVI-out for a FULLHD monitor (CRT or LCD)? Can i do both?.
Here in Brasil everything we do in HD for now will be downsample to SD so i need to have an interlaced CRT TV to view the result before go to DVD or tape(mini-dv,beta, dvcam).
Any tips? options? questions?

John:

In premiere i´ve never been able to monitor to my SD CRT monitor , when editing in HD. Even using the S-video out from my laptop.

But in After Effects i can do it over firewire no matter the resolution of the comp. So that the reference I use for color correcting clips, or effects when working on my house. I just use it as a second opinion, since the colorspace of the SD monitor is very different from the HD standard.

The other thing you can do, is monitor your video on a LCD monitor using the second dvi,of the video card if you calibrate it properly you will not have problems with it. You can get a monitor calibrator for a little money using a REC709 2.2 gamma ICC profile and use it for your monitor. The results will be much better than with a cheap SD monitor even it is professional.

You can even use a HDTV television, and balance it with the correct color profiling. It will give very acceptable results. You can use a DVI to HDMI convertor. I have one system working that way and it works perfect.

For me, if your not using a High End SDI output and monitor like a Sony, Cinetal or eCinema monitor, the monitoring is the same as using a good LCD. In fact sometimes I prefer to use a good HD TV than a cheap "pro" monitor. For me is a reference only, since most of the "professional" monitors, LCT, CRT´S and TV´s gives me only 8bits of color precision, so I dont trust them any way. And cheap "pro" monitors are always expensive than a good LCD monitors. You can find a pretty good LCD with much more features than a prosumer monitor for less money.

I´ve done a lot of proyects using that method and when I see the shots using the profiling in a hi-end HD-SDI monitoring, the image looks exactly the same as in my monitors. You have to use correct profiling, and trust more in your image analisys instruments than in your eye.

I´ve even done color correction for expensive productions using that method and the results are great.

If you have a little extra money you can use an EIZO Color Edge or FlexScan monitor, these are really great computer LCD monitors, they have a very wide gamut. In fact the Color Edge have the ability to adjust the gamma in hardware. If you use the correct color profile they will be the closest to a Hi-End monitor. LaCie has very good displays too.

Panasonic BT-LH1700W as hd-sdi monitor? Probably more during acquisition than post? anyone used it?

Just looking for an update on this thread.
I was intending to buy the Intensity Pro card for monitoring an HD timeline from CS3.
The files would have been AVCHD material converted by Neo Scene. I have no intention of actually capturing material via the Intensity card - only monitoring via HDMI out into an HD tv.
I understand that natively captured via Firewire HDV files will play out OK, but how about the Cineform files?
Another question: How does Premiere recognise the new Intensity hardware? Is it automatically showing up in the CS3 menu? - or is there some software that comes with the card?

Many thanks in anticipation...