DVC-PRO 50 in FCP Capture card or not?

[Walter Biscardi]

For greenscreen you’re going to have fun either way with a compressed format. You better have plenty of light on the screen, plenty of separation of your talent from the screen and hopefully not a lot of movement in the frame.

Here we work with DVCPro HD and I simply work with Firewire and the DVCPro HD codec through the entire process, even for greenscreen work. I don’t see a difference between capturing as uncompressed HD and DVCPro HD when working with greenscreen.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Compare the two and post back. You’ll be fine if you light it right, and either way should work

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[Tony]

Alex,

Someone how you got the technical spec of dvcpro 50 wrong. The recorder does not record in 12 bit it is only capable of 8 bits.

The 12 bit you are referring to is the camera head processing not the vtr. So regardless of how you capture the original footage it will always be 8 bit.

However if you work in a 10 bit uncompressed sequence you will have an advantage when dealing with color correction.

Tony Salgado

[Al]

Thanks to all for the replies.

The part that got me scratching my head was the 12bit. I didn’t see how this was possible.
So I guess I’ll be comparing the two captures and see if there is any difference when I pull my key….

Thanks again
Alex

[Al]

I have another question. I just tested importing footage into FCP from the AJ-SD930 deck. In FCP it all looks good, and shows up as a 720×576 widescreen shot.
However when I bring into AE, I get a very different result that what I get in FCP. First of all the image looks squashed vertically, even though the PAR is 16/9, and second it looks a bit crunchy.
What could be causing this?
Does FCP have some kind of way to read this footage that AE doesen’t?

Thanks
Alex