[geeks] Displaying DV video from FireWire

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Joshua Boyd wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:04:59PM -0500, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
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>>I have this movie I have to edit and color correct in january. All the 
>>footage we shot is 16:9 recorded on my DVCam.
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>>Here is the problem. When using the output of the camera on my sony 
>>video monitor it will display the picture stretched. And the monitor is 
>>not new enough to have a 16:9 button.
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>>I could correct this by having final cut pro squinch the image together 
>>but that would mean I am outputting a 4:3 project. We want to transfer 
>>the movie to 35mm so it needs to stay in 16:9 format.
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>>So here's my question: Is there some software that I could just use 
>>firewire to display the video preview of Final Cut on my powerbook. I 
>>will be editing the video on my desktop.
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>It shouldn't be too hard to write if Apple gives any DV->Quicktime
>examples. 
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>http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/QuickTimeMovieControl/QuickTimeMovieControl.html
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>I think that may be a good starting point.  I think that quicktime is
>usually in charge of handling DV, wether in files or being streamed over
>firewire, and this program supposedly supports all quicktime streaming
>codecs.  Also, according to the comments, it looks like this program
>doesn't keep proportion when the window is stretched.  So, you could
>just modify it to keep the window proportion at 16:9, and it should
>stretch the incoming 4:3 video to 16:9.
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>I would love to work out some deal to put this together for you, but I'm
>afraid I'm unlikely to have the time the way work is going, and what
>with the holidays.
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>BTW, would a linux solution instead of a MacOS X solution be of interest
>to you?  I ask because I personally have needs of a similar program to
>run on linux and take DV in and display it along with status
>information. 
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An linux app would be cool. I could just have a dedicated machine 
running to display the video and timecode would be cool too.
It looks like for this movie I will be renting a sony monitor that can 
handle 16:9.

I will look into the specs later on tonight. Maybe it is fairly easy to 
hack something up to work.

-- Thomas