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Acquiring with AJ-HD1400
What’s the correct way to acquire footage shot at 30P with our VeriCam?
We edit in Premiere with a Xena HS capture card. We mostly edit our projects in SD (no call for HD–yet), at 29.97fps. Our capture deck is the Panasonic AJ-HD1400.
Since the footage is shot at 30P, I’d assume we’d need to implement a 3:2 pulldown somehow, right?
If that’s the case, what’s the procedure? Does the deck do the pulldown? Do we need to set the camera to record the pulldown? Does the Xena card inject the pulldown when capturing?
Other thoughts?
Thanks.
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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
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2 Replies
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James,
The “Varicam” records all frame rates from 4-60 fps by repeating frames and creating a 60 field per second record. It essentially includes the pull down in the actual recording so no further processing is required, other than pulling out a 24p project if that’s what you shoot and prefer to edit in (to save storage space). At your 30fps rate for example each frame is repeated twice so that 30 pairs of progressive frames is written on the tape in each second.
The 1400 deck will downconvert and export through the firewire connector in dv mode or you can come out HD or SD-SDI through your capture card. For exact software settings you might need to query AJA and/or Adobe, but AJA Support is excellent and I’ve found that they’re very familiar with all the NLE software out there that’s used with their products.
JS
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Thanks for the reply. I’ll ask AJA. We don’t acquire via Firewire from that deck.
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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966
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