1200a vs. 130 deck?

[Steve Mahrer]

Joseph;

The AJ-HD130 is a discontinued model, it was HD only, 720p 59.94 and 1080i 29.97 only.
It had HD-SDI I/O, and a built in downconvertor to NTSC / SDI. No IEEE1394, No up/cross
conversion, no abiity to play anything but the 18um HD tapes.

It was replacd by the 1200A last year, that has the ability to play ALL DV based formats, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO HD ( 720p 59.94 / 60, 1080i 29.97 & the newer 1080i 25/25p) It will up/down/
cross convert anything to anything, it also has IEEE1394 as an option. Please remember that the 1200A (and
1700) are both DVCPRO EX format basd, this uses 9um tracks to provide double the rec/play time over the older HD format.

The old 130s are great decks, just they are lacking some of the IT I/Os for the more modern NLE world apps.

Cheers!

Steve Mahrer (Panasonic Corp North America) PNA

[Michael Niemcewicz]

I’m using this deck right now with DVCPRO HD footage being captured to FCP through FW at 23.98. Every now and then it would report a break in time code where there clearly is none. I’m not quite sure what to think about it since this is the first time I’m working with FW and don’t know whether it’s the connection or deck’s fault.
A question that I have, concerns conversions: if I wanted to play a 29.97 fps DV tape (just some old VHS home movies that need to be inserted in the final sequence) and upconvert it to DVCPRO HD on capture (via FW again) what would happen with frame ratio – assuming the conversion worked?
If I logged my footage in HD at 23.98fps and then tried to capture at DV quality from HD tapes (let’s say for offline edit – I know I could recompress after capture but I’m just thinking aloud here) would that work, frame ratio wise and otherwise?