Cloning 24 frame Varicam field tapes

[Noah Kadner]

It needs to be over Firewire- SDI transfer will not maintain the flags.

Noah

[Steve Mahrer]

Folks:

Actually dubbing (not cloning) over HD-SDI will maintain the flags IF you set the record deck to EXT TC and also regenerate the TC UB which contain the frame rate flags.

On the record deck set the following menu items,

SET menu 505 to 0000 (TC & UB)
SET MENU 507 to either 0002 or 0003 ( SLTC or SVITC)

Now when you dub the tapes, the record deck will regenerate the TC and UB from the source deck and you will have the full frame rate flags etc on the new tape.

If you clone (IEEE1394) you get everything, Video/ Audio/ TC & UB all in the DVCPRO HD DIF stream over 1394.

Cheers!

Steve Mahrer (Panasonic Broadcast)

[Scott Gwin]

Steve & Noah,

Thanks very much for the tech advice! It sounds like now the client wants the tapes copied to HDV format and not dubbing to the DVCPROHD format. Steve, any advice on this front from the Panasonic side of this?

DVCPROHD to HDV dubbing.

Scott

[Steve Mahrer]

Hi Scott:

The HDV request certainly muddies the waters somewhat, as you know we do not support HDV. That said, if you’ve shot 720p 24/60 and wish to receord the footage on HDV there is a problem… HDV doesn’t support 720p 60, just 30 as yet.

One possible answer maybe to use one of our DVCPRO HD VTRs to play the VariCam tape, but convert it to 1080i, that can be recorded on the HDV “decks”… This is a mess as you’ll need to feed analogue component our of the 1200A into the HDV deck….. Audio will require patching seperately… and as for TC…. God Knows!

If your client just wants to log the footage, I’d suggest downconvert to Mini-DV and record the letterboxed output of the DVCPRO HD deck and make sure the TC is burnt below the video.

Just my $0.02

Good luck!

Steve Mahrer (Panasonic Broadcast)

[Scott Gwin]

Steve,

Thanks for the two cents and this does help a bunch! We do have a 1200a and access to a HDV deck so I will give it a try.

Scott