Converting from Sony 1080i to Panasonic 720P

[Timothy Auld]

If I understand your question correctly you would need a card (such as one the decklink hd cards) capable of caputuring the hdcam information and drives fast enough to process it. Once in FCP you could then edit in dvcpro hd if you chose to. Probably not the answer you were hoping for but its the best I can do. Maybe someone else will have a better idea.

[Walter Biscardi]

As far as I know, neither the Decklink or Kona have the cross-convert capabilities activated yet so you can’t do it with a capture card yet. I own the Panasonic 1200A DVCPro HD deck which DOES do a cross converter to/from 1080i to/from 720p. Just run the 1080i footage into the HD-SDI input and out the HD-SDI output at the 720p setting and then you can use the Kona 2 to capture at teh DVCPro HD codec.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Itamar Kool]

Thanks guys

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[Gary Adcock]

[Walter Biscardi] “Just run the 1080i footage into the HD-SDI input and out the HD-SDI output at the 720p setting and then you can use the Kona 2 to capture at teh DVCPro HD codec. “

Guys, guys the DVCPRO HD codec has specs for the 1080i formats! then you do not get into the frame size conversion. USing a board you can capture directly to the 1080i DVCPRO HD codec and get the benefit of the smaller files whaile still working at 1080.

gary adcock

Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Itamar Kool]

My problem is that most of the material for this film was shot with 720P. I haven’t bought a HD card yet. I captured the 720 P material through firewire, not using my (SD) card. Now I want to use the 1080i material in my 720P project. So….

Kool En De Anderen
dual 1.8 gig G5/Mac OS 10.3.8/Kona SD/FCP 4.5/AE 6.5 Pro
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl