• Avid Media Composer

  capturing 1080i 29.97

  Posted by Joshua Schwarz on October 11, 2011 at 10:36 pm

  i recently jumped from my meridien system to a modern media composer 5.53 with an aja i/o express box. i’m trying to digitize via hd-sdi from my sony hvr-1500. the sony deck outputs hdv as 1080i60. the aja i/o control panel sees it as 1080i29.97. are they are the same thing with a different naming convention (ie. sony is referring to 60 fields and the aja is referring to 29.97 fps)? my avid project only has choices for 1080i59.94 and 1080p30. the avid shows a very distorted signal when i choose 1080i59.94. am i doing this right? i’m concerned that the avid won’t accept the hd-sdi signal from my deck and will only accept 1080i at a higher frame rate.

  thanks for your help, josh

  joshua schwarz, producer/editor | post josh productions

  Joshua Schwarz replied 14 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Pale

  October 11, 2011 at 11:13 pm

  1080i/59.94 (sometimes rounded off to 60) is 29.97 frames per second.

  It’s 59.94 fields per second.
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  Joshua Schwarz

  October 12, 2011 at 12:06 am

  ok, thanks. i guess the nomenclature has me thoroughly confused. i’ll keep playing with it and post any solutions i may find as to why it’s not working. suggestions welcome.

  joshua schwarz, producer/editor | post josh productions
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  Joshua Schwarz

  October 13, 2011 at 10:59 pm

  it was a patchbay issue. it digitizes beautifully now. thanks, josh

  joshua schwarz, producer/editor | post josh productions

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