hello all,
bear with me, as this one is a little complicated.
problem on my newest show: the downconverted signal from video village is not showing me the full frame. its overscanned, and i can't see the true frame lines for my boom ops.
the DIT does not take the 'monitor feed' (as he calls it) from the camera, he takes the HD image.
translation: no hash marks, no frame lines, no visible safety.
he says that this 'monitor' feed makes his job somewhat useless, as it isn't a proper representation of the image or the colors, etc etc. he's a good guy and a smart guy so i'm taking him at his word there.
but i'm also trying to formulate an argument that would change his mind....
anyway, he sends that to video village and it gets downconverted and sent to me. but in the downconversion i'm being sent an incomplete frame. it somehow zooms in a bit and i get a cropped image.
we tried running this same feed to another SD monitor, just to check, and the problem was there as well.
we're currently using the blackmagic mini converters, so i'm making them get a Decimator and see if that clears up the problem. and i use the Delvcam RCLCD, the double rackmount monitor. never had this problem with those monitors on any other job.
its baffling to me that a HD downconverter would reduce the visible image, but that may be what i'm up against.
has anyone encountered this before?
thanks in advance. i'm much more of a reader than a participant on this board, but its been an invaluable resource to me over the years...
griffin