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Final Cut Pro 6 and HD Cam Ingestion
Hello All,
We recently shot a short film on HD Cam footage on a Sony F900 and are trying to ingest the footage into Final Cut Pro6 to work with. Reading some of your comments we are going to ingest in ProRes 422 and edit and then do an online edit when we are finalized. We have an AJA Kona LH connected to a Sony HDW-F500 deck, however when setting up Final Cut Pro to 23.98fps 1080pfs (which the film was shot) Final Cut does not correctly read the timecode from the tape. I have checked the AJA Control Panel and AJA is reading the correct time code, but Final Cut seems to always be incorrect. We would set the VTR to 00:01:00:00 and Final Cut shows it as being 00:00:48:21. When we advanced one frame on the VTR, Final Cut Pro jumps to 00:01:00:02. Is there anything that we are overlooking in our setup, or are missing? During the ingestion process Final Cut Pro registers Time-code breaks that are in the middle of the clip and fails to ingest the video footage.
I do appreciate any insight you can give us into this matter.
I have listed our hardware below.
Apple Final Cut Studio 2
Sony HDW-F500
Mac Pro (2x3GHz) with AJA Kona LH
Internal 2 TB Hard Drive Raid -
2 Replies
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It sounds like your device control preset isn’t set up right. I would suggest going into the Audio/Video Settings – Device Control Presets and duplicating the one you’re currently using. Then make changes to it by changing the Protocol to other Sony options. Sorry, I don’t know which one to use.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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Occasionally My FCP sys just has to be rebooted.. though i dont have a HDCam deck, I have a HDCamSR. On the SR you have to set the rs422 to output either 24f code or 30f code because of the frame convert option. Your HDSDI may be 24f and your HDSDI for your frame converter is probably at 30f, you just gotta tell the machine control (which is talking to FCP) to output the right timecode..
hope this helps,
del
you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?
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