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108024p delivery
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No.
Use your Kona which will output SD with correct pulldown from any flavor of 23.98 HD.
Jeremy
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Okay… hmmm. well then now I’m confused. If I change my output format from the view menu and it mismatches with my timeline format, my video won’t playback… on my broadcast monitor and many times in my actual timeline. Example: if I am working in a 108024p timeline, and if I was to change my Kona output to NTSC 29.97, video will freeze. What am I doing wrong?
Brad Hodgson
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For SD down converts, it’s different than changing the video output to add pulldown from 23.98 to 29.97.
You put FCP in your 1080psf23.98 easy setup and make sure your video output is set to 1080psf23.98 and the approraite bit depth, then open the Control Panel. You then right click on the output triangle that is going to your monitor and/or your digibeta deck (for this purpose, let’s say it’s SDI 2). So, you would right click on the SDI 2 output traingle and change the drop down menu to secondary, then right click again and change the format to 525i29.97.
Jeremy
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Lovely. Thank you so much, Jeremy! This makes perfect sense and you explained it perfectly.
Thanks again!!!
Brad Hodgson
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Jeremy,
Got this all setup… everything looks good… video not freezing, etc. But when I layback to dbeta, the picture is pretty nasty… pixelates in places, jumps, etc. I also don’t have preview in fcp any longer (though I do on my broadcast monitor).
When I set genlock to ref in, it clears everything up… but then that’s when picture freezes on my broadcast monitor, glitches when trying to playback most anything other than 720×486 from a FCP timeline… however I can capture and layback without issue. What do you suggest?
Thanks!
Brad Hodgson
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So video out of your Kona is good on your monitor, but bad on your dbeta?
It’s pretty easy. When laying off HD to SD, keep FCP in your HD easy setup that matches your timeline and then use the control panel to downconvert.
When laying off SD to SD, you have to put FCP in an SD easy setup.
Jeremy
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Yea, that’s how it is… FCP in 1080psf23.98 matching footage in timeline. when Kona control panel set to freerun, evertyhing works fine… timeline plays to my broadcast monitor, to my room TV. I set Kona card control panel to downconvert to 525i 29.97… everything looks fine. I open edit to tape, get bunch of snow… black and code, set my in, drop my sequence in to assemble, a 1080 edit to tape print screen pops up, letterboxed to my dbeta… though monitoring my dbeta out on my tech monitor the picture is like split in two: half on top, half missing, etc… when I play back the dbeta, the picture looks terrible, pops in audio… it must be a sync issue?
I’m remembering things as I type this… awhile ago when I started, the tech guy came and wondered why the genlock on the Kona control panel was set to freefun… he set it to ref in and printing to tape worked fine then… and has any time I’ve needed to capture or layback.
but, when the kona card is set to ref in, I can only playback a FCP timeline at 525i 29.97 or 23.98 1080 29.97 and I think a 720p size… not 108023.98… even when my timeline is 23.98 it will playback on my monitor and not have freezy glitches if I change it to 1080 29.97 (which is wrong obviously and in turn loses sync). If i switch kona panel back to freerun, FCP playback issues all cleared up, but downconverting to Dbeta looks horrible.
Ugh… hahah sorry. This is turning into a can of worms. I’m mainly a motion graphics guy…. and a b-editor when they need me if you can’t already tell. Hahaha!
Brad Hodgson
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[Brad Hodgson] “it must be a sync issue? “
Correct. 1080sf23.98 requires trilevel sync and you DBeta requires bi level (29.97). So you have a few options.
The easiest would be to tell your Dbeta to sync in to inoming video via SDI and pull the BiLevel sync generator,
The other is to get a Kona Gen10 which will output both tri and bi level sync. You send the trilevel to your Kona and bi Level to your DBeta. The Gen10 will sync them both.
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