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DVCPRO HD downconvert
About to downconvert a feature shot on Varicam at 23.98 to DV files for offline. Working on a FCP 5 machine with a Kona LHe card, using the 1200a deck to capture… and then on a laptop to cut (client is cutting)
I’m wondering if I capture using the SDI out of the 1200a deck and Kona 8bit to DV easy set up in FCP will it pull down the frames or keep the correct timecode for cutting so that when we go back into online we have no problems re-capturing at full 10bit HD? Or is there a better way to do it workflow wise?
May be a stupid question…
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Drive space is cheap. Do yourself a favor and capture once. Capture to a SATA Raid or even FW800 drives on your system, then use the Media Manager to COPY the footage, recompressing it as DV, for the client to work with. When they are done, get the project file from them and simply reconnect. Saves money on renting the 1200 deck again, and the possible hassle of recapturing and footage being slightly off sync.
Shane
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I know if I were doing the job I would capture the job as DVCProHD at 23.98. That way you’re staying at native FPS and native aspect ratio all the way through the job, and avoiding all potential timecode issues.
DRW
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I would first suggest giving the client DVCPRO HD 23.98 to work with. It’s nice and the overhead isn’t that much more than DV.
DVCPRO HD 24P – 5.6MB/sec
DV 29.97 – 3.6MB/secAs far a redigitizing to 10-bit, it works well… UNLESS your DP shot variable frame rate on a tape. I’ve had very few problems with onlining from tapes that were shot at 23.98 throughout the tape. But the tapes that have a variable frame rate shot kills the timecode from the tape if you want to redigitize. It can be rough.
If you digitize over firewire, then you’re just copying the information off of the tape and not recompressing it. From there you could convert the files to 10-bit when you are ready to do your online edit.
-Russ
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So the footage won’t come across as 23.98 native frame rate then I’m guessing.
I thought about just giving it to him as native 720p as it won’t be that much bigger… but I’m intrigued by the media manager to copy to DV… how exactly do I do that?
Cheers
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Select all of you media and choose media manager-Recompress. The choose the codec and destination.
-Russ
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That is something I am trying to convince the director to do.
Cheers
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Then when I do my online, do I just reconnect to the 720p media that is on another drive?
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[morgster] “Then when I do my online, do I just reconnect to the 720p media that is on another drive?”
yes.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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As long as you don’t change the name of the clips, yes. After doing that though, you’ll need to change you timeline settings and some each clip’s basic motion and distort properties. This is usually pretty easy to do using the paste attributes command.
It can be a pain if there are a lot of scaled clips though.
-Russ
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