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24p help!
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My name is Il -
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Illannn,
Congratulations on winning the prize!
As regards the 24p, it’s really simple. If you consider that the tape you record in the Varicam (when shot at 24p) is the same as a tape you would walk away from a film-to-tape session you should understand. The only difference is that the first of the frames that is repeated in the 3:2 pull down cadance is “marked” in the user bits as an “A” frame and so it’s able to be pulled out into a 24p project in FCP or to be “filmed out” to film at the end of the editing process.
You are correct in your understanding that all you’ll need is a Panasonic 1200A VTR to digitize the tape into your Final Cut Pro. The great advantage to this “Firewire” workflow is that you don’t need any additional third-party capture cards or exotic RAID storage; simple and inexpensive Firewire drives will suffice and you’ll be editing in the native DVPRO100 codec.
The Varicam does have many settings that can influence the look of the camera; including Dynamic Range, Gamma, Black Stretch, Matrix and Color Correction. It’s a good idea to experiment before your shoot with these various settings and/or refer to the Goodman Guide to the Varicam for some guidance. Perhaps you could borrow this book from the Varicam supplier.
In any event good luck!
JS
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Visit this link. It shows you how to use your varica footage and FCP.
Small recap on Varicam format:
-1280×720 / 8-bit 4:2:2 media on DVCPro HD tapes. 100mb/sec
-the camera always record 60 progressive frames per second, whatever the shooting speed is ( from 4 to 60)
-If you shoot at 24p, the material on tape is similar to film-to-tape xfer (2:3 pulldown). You need to remove the hybrid frames to wotk at 24p. The following web pages explain that.https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvcpro_hd_workflow_balis.html
Other links:
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/panasonic/drivers/pbts/papers/Overcrank-WP.pdf
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=R&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=94208&catGroupId=14569&modelNo=AJ-HDC27H&surfModel=AJ-HDC27H
https://www.jkor.com/peter/riddles.html
http://www.24p.com -
Il
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Thanks for all your help!!, I do understand better now, still, Ill check out the pages you recommend and Ill let you know what happems or if I have more doubts (which could possibly happen!)
I havent had much time this week to sit down and research since im shooting a short this weekend on a sony dsr 390 dvcam which is, I presume, infinetly easier to operate well than the varicam!!
Anyway Thanks again!Il
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