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HD1200A Not Recording 720p
I’m trying to lay to tape a project shot on the Varicam at 720p using the AJ-HD1200A. It was edited on a Matrox Axio LE system with Premiere Pro 2.
The problem I am having is that the deck always seems to record at 1080i, even when I believe I have all the settings correct for 720p. Also, I can’t seem to get it to record at 59.94fps. It always wants to records at 29.97fps.
I have confirmed that the 720P light is on, and when I try switching the system to 1080i, I don’t get a stable signal, so I imagine that the signal coming from my breakout box is 720p and this matches my project settings.
I have tried laying to tape with both 1394 and HD-SDI, same problem.
Here are the menu settings on my deck which I guess are relevant.
No.25 Sys Freq 59/60
No.020 Sys Format 720p
No.023 Format Select HD-LP
No.030 HD Frequency 59/23Is there something I’m missing here? A menu setting I’m not setting properly?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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What do you mean the deck records @ 29.97? You mean 29.97 timecode? If yes, it always records with 29.97 timecode, but the deck records 60p.
You aren’t trying an assemble edit are you? How do you know the footage is 1080i?
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OK, yes on recapture I noticed it was recording at 60p just fine. I was just confused by the timecode not going up to 60. (If you haven’t noticed this is our first layoff to HD – we haven’t had a call for it until now).
I am not assemble editing. I was either just hitting “Record” when using 1394 or RS-422, or with HD-SDI I was even just crash recording on the deck by hitting REC PLAY and playing the timeline in Premiere.
I didn’t realize that it was recording at 1080i until the guys at Master Control of the station I sent the tapes to said that both tapes were 1080i not 720p. That’s when I started doing tests here. I could tell here that they were 1080i because in Premiere Pro you cannot capture 1080i footage into a 720p project. The tapes that I recorded supposedly in 720p, could not be recaptured into the program I had just laid it off from, which was a 720p project. But they could be captured without a problem in a 1080i project. So I would assume that the footage was 1080i.
All this said, I came in this morning to do some more tests and guess what? It’s all working just fine now. I can’t explain other than just leaving the deck and computer shut off all night why it’s working now. Maybe it just needed a rest? 720p footage recorded on the deck I’m now able to recapture into a 720p project. Both the HD-SDI and 1394 inputs are working just fine. I’ll still send a tape over to Master Control to check it out, maybe the issue is on their end?
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[kelseyroth] “Maybe it just needed a rest?”
I think it was probably you that needed a rest or the guys @ Master Control that need a rest.
There are ways to set up the deck to play 720p material out as 1080i and if the deck is set to that, you will get 1080i no matter what format the deck is set to.
End of Line.
Jeremy
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