720P50 firewire capture – cannot capture odd frame number starts

[Tom Wolsky]

What recorded this? I don’t know any HDV camera that shoots in 720p50. That would be an HDV tape based camera that records at 50fps. Is there such a thing?

All the best,

Tom

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[Phil Balsdon]

JVC HD201E / 251E both shoot HDV 720 50p.

I would assume it’s from one of these as the BR-HD50 is a JVC deck.

If you still have access to the camera you might try importing from that. If it works you know the problem is with your deck, if not it’s on the tape. The deck you can probably get repaired, if it’s tape you’ll need to find a work around.

Wondering why the project was off-lined in SD PAL though when HDV files are around the same file size as SD.

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[Tom Wolsky]

Very cool. JVC has done some great work with the HDV format. Much better than Sony in my view.

And I agree, really no point in offlining to PAL.

All the best,

Tom

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[Mike Simpson]

Thanks for reading the original post.

The footage was shot on JVC GY-HD251 cameras over here in PAL land.
We started to shoot this prior to owning any intel machines so at the time were not capable of ingesting the 720P50 HDV material so we downscaled the footage from the deck – you can select this in the menus and output SD over component. FCP was not capable of editing HDV 720P50 material at the time either.

It was then captured at DVPAL resolution.

Now that we do have the ability to edit at 720P50 HDV we want to!

For the time being we have decided to alter the in points of our media by 1 frame to get over this little hiccup but our next issue is going to be creating the SD DV PAL sequence but in 720P50.

If anyone has any clues how to do this I’d love to hear it.
Like I mentioned at the top Media Manager doesn’t seem to behave properly. I would expect to be able to create an offline version of the project and select HDV as the new compression settings but FCP doesn’t seem to want to do this hence looking for workarounds.

Again…any help is truly gratefully received.

Mike

[Tom Wolsky]

“FCP doesn’t seem to want to do this”

What happens when you try to do it? Can’t you select the HDV 720p50 preset? What version of the software are you using?

All the best,

Tom

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[Rafael Amador]

That camera is very peculiar and probably uses some tricks to use the mechanisms and electronic designed for 1080.
I think that some how each Frame works like a field in a 1080 format (when recording on tape, when streaming), so you have to work always with pairs of frames. As you can not manage single fields in 1080, you can not manage single frames in 720.

Pure hypothesis, but..
rafael

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[Mike Simpson]

@Rafael – Interesting theory. Not sure how we can confirm that.

@Tom – I’m actually away form the office now so will have a look at what message FCP came up with when the media manager method didn’t work.
The version of FCP is, I believe, the newest available and installed on a dual core intel macbook pro.
It was something to do with the selected format was 50P but the original was 25 so it couldn’t complete it and would keep the new settings at 25 – which was pretty much useless!

I’ll be sure to post on here in the morning when i get chance to look at the project. I have plenty of other work to be getting on with so it may not be first thing. We have a couple of i7 27″ iMacs turning up tomorrow so may well shift this project over onto one of those to get going with.
Thanks for your interest in this.

Mike

[Tom Wolsky]

That doesn’t seem right. You should be able to create offline to any format at all, especially 25 to 50.

All the best,

Tom

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[Mike Simpson]

Right…we just installed FCP/Studio on our 27″ iMac so we definitely up to date with all software.
Here’s what we have tried to get an offline version of the SD project to a 720P50 offline version:

Media Manager
Create Offline
Set Sequence to HDV 720P50

clicked ok

then got this warning:

Frame Rate Conflict Error
The frame rate of the preset chosen to reset your new offline sequences to differs from items in your selection.
The preset’s frame rate will be ignored, and the original frame rate of the items in your selection retained.

Abort or Continue….we aborted

So – what is the point in media manager if it cannot do this?

Any more ideas?

Mike

[Tom Wolsky]

Not good. I can’t think of any good way, short of exporting an XML file and hacking it to change the frame rate and frame durations. But it wouldn’t be fun and have a high element of risk. The only other option is to manually recapture and build the two projects side by side. Good luck.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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