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Firewire Control & Kona
I have some footage to capture on DV. Fortunately I hardly ever have to work with DV, so I only have an old DV deck with no control except for firewire.
Using the Kona for control, I have a capture offset of -1.5 frames. Which seams to be exactly on the mark. With firewire control there is no offset in the default settings.
So here is my question. Using the Kona for video input and firewire for control, do I need to adjust the capture offset to get accurate timecode? I will also try to calibrate and see if I can find if there is an offset or not, but my concerns lies with DV timecode. I wonder if I can even make it accurate at all. So any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Jared
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG -
5 Replies
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Jared,
I would capture it all via firewire natively in the DV codec and then transcode the footage to whatever codec you are working in.
David
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I’ve not had any problems at all with capturing DV footage in another codec. I don’t have to set an offset for mine but you just have to try some good ole trial and error to smooth it out on your particular system.
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Wayne Carey
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Are you saying that you can capture DV via firewire and transcode to DVCPRO at the same time?
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If this question was amied my way then I would say no. When capturing firewire It is not possible to capture it as DVCPRO50 codec. WOuldn’t that be nice (preserve all of those nice features like DV stop/start detect). This is why I specified capture DV first and then transcode to the codec you are workin in.
David -
Well, guys…. I’ve been doing it for a year now… I, now, capture all of my footage in the IMX50 codec. My primary source is XDCAM but we do use HDV cameras are a secondary source. So, I’ve setup my capture of the HDV to IMX50. Now, keep in mind that you can only do this with something other than firewire. i use the component outputs of my HDV machine so that I can transcode to IMX50.
To me, a $1000 AJA IO LA was well worth the time to rerender or to transcode DV to IMX50. Maybe, just maybe, Apple will jump of the bandwagon and join the other NLE programs that can mix any format in real time. Until then, firewire is for DV editing only! Apple has mandated this for us.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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