Are the analogue outputs for the HVX-200 variable frame rate

[Barry Green]

They will output a 60p signal. The variable frame rates would be carried within that 60p signal, so it’ll look like 24p or 30p, but there would actually be 60 frames per second being transmitted.

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[Gary Taylor]

Hi Barry,
Thanks for the reply. Does that mean that Final Cut could detect flagged frames on capture and only save the relevant frames. With a 24P capture would it be able to capture only 24 frames per second and save me from having to have a the full bandwidth of a 720/60p capture?

If the info you found about the AD and DSP is correct I am thinking uncompressed captures from from this camera should Beautiful! I am just hoping I can get by with a fast RAID instead of a super fast raid. Has Panasonic announced anything about about the ability to switch output to RGB?
Thanks again,
Gary

[Barry Green]

I’ll have to defer to some FCP experts to answer your questions, as I’ve never used FCP. I don’t believe there would be flags in the analog output, so you’d probably have to capture the 60p stream and then use their frame rate converter (or some handy-dandy tool that I’m sure our beloved Graeme Nattress will likely work up!) to extract the frames. Since AFAIK the pad frames are exact duplicates of the prior frame, it should be a relatively trivial task for someone like Graeme to conform a 60p capture back to the original intended frame rate.

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[Graeme Nattress]

I have a little plugin that does that now with 24pA on teh DVX, so it shouldn’t be hard to do it on the HVX 200, as soon as I work out the pattern for each and every frame rate. It will be a manual process of guessing the right cadence, but if people need it, I’ll put it in as a feature on the Standards Converter.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Gary Taylor]

Thanks Guys,
I keep forgetting that the camera doesn’t have timecode out for the analog outputs since it isn’t going through a VTR.

Graeme I think that if this camera performs the way we all expect it will there will be a bunch of people interested in that update. Ideally I would prefer to reduce my bandwidth requirements while capturing but if you can help me extract uncompressed 24P footage in post production you would be my new best friend!
Thanks again,
Gary