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Component input and 1394 deck control
Is there a way to capture an HD video footage using component input of Kona LHe (or any Decklink device) while controlling player with firewire interface?
I guess there is, but what will be the offsets for TC and deck control commands? Do someone have such experience? Or you’ll just advise me a correct search string for this forum.. I’d be pleased. -
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[Max Chernyaev] “Is there a way to capture an HD video footage using component input of Kona LHe (or any Decklink device) while controlling player with firewire interface?”
Yeah, just set up for your Component capture using the appropriate Easy Setup, then in the Log and Capture Window, change Device Setup to Firewire PAL or NTSC depending on what format you’re working in.
Note that if you’re trying to do this with an HDV deck, you need to ensure that the Firewire is set up for regular DV and not HDV or you won’t be able to control it.
We do this all the time with our Kona 3’s and our Sony M15U HDV decks. We convert all our HDV material to either DVCPro HD or ProRes using this method.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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I couldn’t get this to work with the JVC HD-110, tried for 30 mins and finally gave up on having timecode (wasn’t that important).
I set the camera to DV out and fed component analog to my Kona LHe, but the camera ‘helpfully’ flashes a warning on-screen telling you to change the 1394 switch when you’re playing HDV but have the switch set to DV.
Perhaps setting the internal playback menu away from AUTO select would have changed things… guess I’ll have to test again once more before I write that strategy off (at least with this camera).
-Adam
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[Adam Smith] “I couldn’t get this to work with the JVC HD-110, tried for 30 mins and finally gave up on having timecode (wasn’t that important).”
A camera is never a good input device for digitizing. You really want an HDV VTR which makes it much easier to work with non-linear editing systems.
Also, cameras are not designed for the all the shuttling in reviewing and digitizing footage.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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[walter biscardi] “A camera is never a good input device for digitizing. You really want an HDV VTR which makes it much easier to work with non-linear editing systems.”
Oh I agree… but the client doesn’t have a deck and I don’t shoot HDV so neither do I. It was the camera or nothing. Either way I would have ingested it in 30 minute chunks, but with timecode I would have had a backup plan if something goes wrong with the media.
In the future, I’ll recommend the client pays me to shoot on my P2 camera and we can skip the deck issue entirely! =)
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Thanks, Walter, your advice is exactly what I need! We’ve got M25 deck and desiring to digitize video to ProRes with Kona LHe to have it later downscaled to widescreen PAL later. I guess we should get a near-4:2:2 picture that way. I hope that’ll work.
Don’t I have to set up some capture or timecode delay in FCP?
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