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Final Cut settings for Panasonic HVX200 – TAPE
While I am waiting for the P2 cards to be delivered I figured I would shoot some tape on my new Panasonic HVX200.
My recording setting were 480i/60i
I thought it would just be a straight DV NTSC setup but when I hook up it complains about drop frames. So what is the correct/optimal sequence/capture settings?
Thank you,
Dan
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That Easy Setup is correct. Could you be running into a FirwWire bus conflict issue? In my G5 setup, I have my FireWire 800 drives on the internal FW bus and then I have a PCIe FireWire card to which the camcorder is attaced. This is for two reasons. One is that the camera conflicts with the drives if they’re on the same bus. Two is that connecting camcorders or other devices while powered can fry the FW bus. By using a cheap PCIe card for the camcorder, I will more likely toast that than the G5 system board (althoug my STRICT policy is never to connect FW to a powered camcorder).
Final Cut Studio, FCP 5.1.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, Quicktime 7.2, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V3.4, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, Mac OS-X 10.4.10.
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Well I did find the Apple Workflow and suggestions for “ingesting” the footage.
I switched to using the “Easy Setup” DV50 – NTSC
But now it says “Capture encountered a problem This could be due to a problem on the tape…” after recording about 3 seconds. It was a new tape and looks fine when playing on the camera.
The camera is attached to my PPC Quad with a FW cable to the front panel.
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[Daniel C. Slagle] “I switched to using the “Easy Setup” DV50 – NTSC “
That is the wrong setting, you are bring in DV (DV25) not DV50.
Drop frames is normally a problem with slower hard drives or as stated above hooking the camera and hard drive up to the same port. That is why a second FW800 card is a good idea.
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The DV25 seemed to work but Apple said the their PDF “480i 60/480p 30 DV-NTSC or DV50-NTSC ”
Thanks looking forward to the P2 cards!!!
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but the signal coming through is not DV50, it is DV25, there are decks and cameras that record to tape using DVCPro50 but the HVX200 is not one of them, with P2 you can record DV50 in SD mode but not on tape.
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Thanks for helping out the newbie
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No problem, make sure you fill out the special offer for the camera and get Barry Green’s book, it is GREAT, this is a camera that demands the user to read the manual or this book to get the most out of it.
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I am having a problem with importing from tape also. I shot video on my HVX200 at 480i/24p. Everything looks great on the display, but when i capture it into Final Cut Pro it looks like its deinterlaced, or it has a bunch of lines causing the video to lose quality. Whenever someone moves their hands or head it is the worst. Any suggesstions???
Thanks.
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did you ever solve your problem ian. i am having the same issue, but capture to p2 cards. it looks like my mxf file is fine, but the interlacing on heads and hands is really bad once it is in quicktime format and in fcp.
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