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Down converting from XDCAM-HD to SD
We shot and edited a short piece on XDCAM-HD. Now we want to dump off an SD version of this story to Betacam SP. We have an Io-HD that is perfectly capable of performing the down-conversion. But how?
I went into the Kona Control Panel and changed the settings so that my 1080i signal was being down-converted into 525i. But there was something funky-wrong with the video. It looked like there was some sort of interlace problem.
What do I need to do?
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Do you have a deck at your disposal? We use a PDW-F70 deck, and I’ve found that that gives a better looking down-conversion than what our Kona 3 card does (We also downconvert out of the deck rather than using the Kona for our digitizing right now while we’re still cutting SD. It just looks better) We plan to lay back our Hi Def masters to XD Cam, then use that to dub down to digibeta.
If that won’t work for you, you should leave your timeline and your output in Final Cut set to the HD format that you’re working in, and the Format in the Kona Control Panel should be set up the same. Set your secondary format to 525i29.97, and set how you want it to downconvert (crap, anamorphic or letterbox). Set the output to use the secondary format, and then output as normal from Final Cut, and it should come through just fine.
If that isn’t working, you’ll have to either wait for someone with a little more experience explaining the process comes along, or else do a quick search of the COW, as I believe this has been discussed quite a few times before.
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Thanks for the help. We’ve only had our XDCAM gear for a bit over a week. I was changing the Easy Set-up to match what I wanted the outgoing video to be, and that was causing some strange problems.
Keeping the Easy Set-up to match the XDCAM-HD, and right clicking on the Analog icon within Kona Control Panel, and changing the secondary video to 525i works.
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