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Capturing 1080i30p in FCP 6.0.5
This will be the very first time capturing HD footage in my video editing career, yes, it has been a short career so far.
Anyways, I have a project that was shot in 1080i 30p (so says the cameraman) on to yellow DVCPRO tape. Because the company I work for does not have a DVCPRO deck, we had it transferred to MiniDV tapes. We are capturing using a Sony HVR-M25AU.
Upon looking at the different settings presets for Capture and Sequence, I do not see a DVCPRO HD 1080i30, only DVCPRO HD 1080p30 and 1080i60. Also, what should I set the Device Control Preset and Video Playback to? Should I change a setting on the tape deck?
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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HDV 1080i is what it would be.
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Chris just told you the preset to use. I would like to add a little detail to clear up what I think is some confusion on your part.
Back in the day video came in two flavors, NTSC and PAL. Now, unfortunately it comes in dozens. Resolution, frame shape, compression codec, even how it is drawn on the screen, are things that affect what “kind” of video it is.
First of all it is not possible to have 1080i30p. Like ordering from the lunch special menu, you only get 1 from column A. Your video is either interlaced (i) or progressive (p). Most commonly 1080 video is interlaced. Not always, but most frequently. That is especially true if the frame rate is about 30, which in interlaced terms is called 60. There are 30 frames in a second, each of which has two fields.
So you took what I am pretty sure was 1080i60 DVCPro media and dubbed it to an HDV format recorder. When you did that you changed the compression codec from DVCPro to HDV. Actually you decompressed the original footage, sent it along a cable to the Sony machine and re-compressed it as HDV.
That machine is probably hooked to your edit system with a Firewire cable right? If that is the case you would use the preset Chris had mentioned.
If not, please call back with details of how you have hooked up your system, and what kind of capture card you are using.
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So I called the company who dubbed the tape and got things figured out. I just want to thank you guys for helping out though.
Just in case someone else has this problem, I’ll explain the solution (something I wish other people would do instead of just, “It’s okay I figured it out”).
Strange that the camera person said 1080i30p… just typing that out seems weird because how can something be progressive and interlace at the same time? It can’t, as far as I know, but hey I don’t know too much.
When we had the tape dubbed, it was down-converted all the way to SD 16:9 footage. Not HDV, not HD at all. Just some really good looking SD footage.
So capturing it in FCP would mean that all I have to do is leave it at NTSC DV and check the little Anamorphic box and there you go.
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[Chris Tarroza] ” just typing that out seems weird because how can something be progressive and interlace at the same time? It can’t, as far as I know, but hey I don’t know too much.”
it is called a progressive segmented frame
an explanation.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/193/875880
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