• Avid Media Composer

  DVCPRO HD on AVID

  Posted by Daniel Andreas on August 16, 2007 at 1:46 am

  We are shooting a documentary intended for theatrical release (so there will be a film-out) on an HDX900. Somebody at Panasonic told me that AVID has some issues with 24p editing. Apparently something about removing the 3:2 pull-down (as Panasonic records over 60i).
  Is there anybody who has experienced that from either a VariCam or HDX900?

  Also, is there an advantage to shoot 24pA (Advanced)?

  And, has anybody worked with Panasonic’s 1200 deck via FireWire ingestion? Apparently there is some glitches on AVID too.

  Thank you

  Terry Wester replied 18 years, 8 months ago 6 Members · 5 Replies
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  Joe Womble

  August 16, 2007 at 2:36 am

  There should be some great responses here from MichaelP at Avid, and others. You may want to check out the worthy P2 and Varicam forums on the Cow.

  Regards,

  Joe Womble
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  Michael Phillips

  August 18, 2007 at 12:03 am

  Tape based 72op from Varicam and HDX900 are fine. Come in straight over FireWire. Varicam flags are also observed when coming over FireWire. Avid can capture normal or advanced as needed.

  Michael

  anything 24fps
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  Chris Magid

  August 29, 2007 at 1:07 pm

  We have used the panny 1200 and 1400 HD in various configurations with our Adrenalines with no problems.

  HOWEVER I strongly advise you use rs-422 deck control and sdi input instead of firewire. You may also consider transcoding to one of Avids DNX codecs rather than staying HD100.

  chris magid
  rtvf
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  Dino Sanacory

  September 2, 2007 at 10:28 pm

  If you shot 720P varicam for 24P, your fine, digitize overfirewire and the Avid reads the flags, bringing in only the relevant frames out of the 60 it records. If you shot 1080 as 24P plus pulldown then there is no easy way back to 24P. As the format makes no nod at 1080 as to the way an image was acquired, there is no information letting the Avid know which frames are keepers.

  If the intention is to compare this to what Final Cut does, it does this. After capturing the interlaced media, you then go through a conversion process where every file is processed by removong the pulldown and generating a whole new file. A time and drive consuming process.

  the best way to deal with this is to shot on a format that gives you what you actually need for you intended goal.
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  Terry Wester

  September 12, 2007 at 4:52 pm

  I have a Panasonic 1200 and I want to digitize to an Adrenalin over SDI, and RS-422, but bring it in at 24 fps with no pull down, is this possible?

  Thanks for any input,
  Terry

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