720P 23.98 not RT on Kona 3

[Terence Curren]

In thinking this through, I have come up with what I believe is happening here. The DVCPRO HD codec is anamorphically (sic) squeezed from 1280 down to 960 to save space on tape. This we know. Then it is unsqueezed to display. This we also know. My guess is that the codec contains instructions to usnqueeze it for display.

Think about it. Would you want to watch ultra thin people while viewing on your computer? No, of course not. And I’m sure that the various Quicktime players aren’t setup to unsqueeze this codec on display. So you would have to unsqueeze it any time you left FCP.

The end result, I don’t think there is anyway to save a QT file in the DVCPro codec that isn’t unsqueezed outside of FCP.

I guess one inelegant solution would be to next the sequence in a new DVCPRO HD timeline and render it, then you could take the rendered QT movie and move it around.

[Christopher Wright]

The Problem is, I never view DVCPRO HD clips “on the computer screen.” I always have the Kona output to an HD monitor. Before FCP 6, I could import the Quicktime movie of my entire show into a DVCPRO HD 720 project and play it immediately out to my HD Monitor or an HD projector without having to re-render it. This is a major step backwards!!

[David Battistella]

Try this in this order:
Create a new sequence and drag the clip into FCP 6.0 Open timeline, and wait for the (clip does not match the sequence settings” dialog box?

Ask FCP to set the timeline to the same thing your QT is.(there should be no render bar unless the audio has been encoded incorrectly)

THEN

Change your easy set-p to varicam.

[Terence Curren]

I tried that originally, and ended up with a sequence that needs to be rendered.