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FCP Studio 2 & HD & KONA3
Hi Guys,
We have been shooting in HD for an upcoming commercial. Both 60i and 24p (so we have a choice).
I’m running FCP Studio 2 on a G5 quadcore machine with a new Kona3 installed.Here’s my question:
After editing the spot in HD, what is the best,cleanest way to get it out to SD ? We will have to deliver this to some outlets letterboxed SD (Digibeta or DVCPro50). I’m asking for specific sequence settings or presets here.thanks,
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37 Replies
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Down convert through the Kona 3.
Jeremy
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Specifics ? I’ve tried this and frankly I must have something wrong because it does not look all that good.
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You can read this post, post back with any questions:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/929482?
Jeremy
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Excellent Jeremy . .thank you . . I’ll give it a try.
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OK, I tried that. I’m monitoring the thru-put of a DVCPro50 deck (SDI input to deck but composite out to monitor) I know this won’t look great being a composite signal to the monitor but it looks pretty jagged and worse than it should. Also, the RGB component signal to our SD monitor looks pretty crummy also. Any thoughts ? I’m thinking the realtime downconversion should be really clean . . .am I wrong ?
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Nope, you are not wrong. The conversion should be clean as a whistle.
First, try looking at something besides a composite signal.
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I’m also looking at the RGB to a compnent monitor and it’s pretty jagged.
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Hmm. What HD footage do you have?
Put FCP in the proper HD easy setup (control-q)
Open the control panel.
Choose the output as secondary and 525i on the SDI output connected to your deck.
Tab back to FCP and play your HD timeline. The image should be clean.
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Be sure you’ve rendered any clips that Final Cut considers to be “Preview” quality. Possibly even clips that Final Cut considers “Full” as well.
– David
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Hmmm . . . my footage was capture via firewire out of the HDX900 (until our deck gets here)
with FCP codec (DVCPRO HD). Everything looks fine in FCP. I still can’t figure this out . . . I hate to do it . . . . . . . but may have to resort to the manual. I think it’ s the control panel for the Kona that’s getting me. I have both primary and secondary set to 525i.
If the footage was shot at 60i could this be the problem ? I did not see a preset for that.
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