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Capturing footage shot on Sony V1U and converting it to 1080 23.98
I’m having some trouble with a tape shot on a Sony V1U– I’ve been able to reverse telecine 1/2 of it (there was a timecode break) to 23.98 but the other 1/2 (using the exact same process) comes through with a very serious strobe.
My workflow is this: Capture using a Sony HVR-15U HDV deck via firewire. Codec is Apple ProRes 422 HDV (24P). Once in, reverse telecine with Cinema Tools.
System is a MacPro (2007), 8GB RAM, FCP Studio 2 (most recent updates installed).
Any suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong here?
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If you are shooting correctly with the v1u you won’t need to reverse telecine with cinema tools, the easy setup you are using will remove the pulldown on capture. You have to be shooting in HDV 1080P 24A mode on the camera. In 24A mode the camera records a constant A-frame, in normal 24 mode it doesn’t do that so that A-frame shifts every time you hit record. If you shoot 24A then just use the HDV 1080P 24 to ProRes easy setup and capture normally, and you will see the capture window display something that says a percentage of how far it is behind the camera, this lag occurs because FCP is processing the pulldown removal on the fly, but it can’t keep up with the camera so it needs a buffer. If you didn’t shoot 24A, then you need to capture using the HDV 1080i 29.97 easy setup, and remove the pulldown and convert to prores using compressor, not cinema tools, because cinema tools can’t remove pulldown from HDV or any other mpeg-2 material. Hope this helps.
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Matt, thanks a lot for this. I’m going to try it now. According to my camera crew they did shoot it properly– I’ve probably just been over complicating things on the post end.
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Matt, Again thank you. Though the capture using prores did not work, the compressor solution was spot on.
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