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720p 23.98 to HDW-D1800
anyone have success cutting a 720p 23.98 project to an HDW-D1800 deck?
The deck does not appear to support 720p, so I have attempted to cross convert to 1080i 59.94 still with no luck…Avid’s help indicates that such crossconvert is not supported for digital cut, but I still feel it should work, no? Seems like a straight forward enough process of adding pulldown on output…
I have sync and deck control, but receive a “cannot find coincidence point” error. I’ve tried virtually every other combination of cross convert/format setting/sync reference just to see if I could at least crash it in, including opening the 720p timeline in new projects, still to no avail.
My only workaround has been to export uncompressed QT’s and reimport into a 1080 project. Not ideal. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
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The 1800 is an HDCam deck. HDcam has never offered 720P functionality. the deck is not to blame. Furthermore, there is no actual video format for 23 or 24P at 720. It exists only in a computer. That we have to deal with this is the fault of Panasonic, not Sony or Avid.
Open a new 1080/23.976P project. At the finder level, copy the sequence bin from your 720 project and place the copy into this new project. Avid will play 720 as 1080 in real time. 72o projects seem limited to only 720 media. Output to the 1800 as 1080/23.976P. If you need 59.94i you have two options. 1) If your deck has the HKDW-104 board, digitize the tape back into a 1080/59.94i project by adding pulldown to the output. Output to a new tape at 59.94i. 2) Get a dub to a new tape with pulldown added.
It is the fault of Avid that there is no reasonable way to add pulldown on output. Avid is still trapped in their single frame rate view of the world. My hope is that 2009 brings us Media Composer 4 and the end of this limitation.
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