• Blackmagic Design

  Capture in PAL – Varicam footage

  Posted by Gunleik Groven on February 14, 2006 at 4:49 pm

  I’ve tried over at Varicam and FCP, maybe this is the right place.

  With the MB-Extreme, can I capture to 1080p50 from a varicam 720p25 shoot?
  Or any other suggestions (As there isn’t a 720p25 codec available.

  Will I have to do it as Decklink uncompressed, or can i go to DVCPRO-HD?

  Gunleik

  Mactrix replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Johnton

  February 14, 2006 at 5:09 pm

  Ummm. I’m running the latest version of FCP5 and the Blackmagic drivers, and I have:
  Blackmagic HDTV 720p 25 VariCam – 8 bit
  Blackmagic HDTV 720p 25 VariCam – 10 bit
  Easy Setups.
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  Gunleik Groven

  February 14, 2006 at 6:00 pm

  OK

  Thanks!

  Gunleik
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  Mactrix

  February 23, 2006 at 11:55 am

  Keep in mind that 720p25 isn’t a standard format.
  It’s not transfered over SDI and no VTR can play it back.

  The BMD settings try to get the pullup pattern from the
  60p (59,94) signal …

  I would shot and work in 30p and transcode the master
  to 25p …

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