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Help! They’re going to take my BM card in the middle of a project!
And swap it with a Kona!
The brief: I’m in the middle of a 2-hour doc that was shot using DVCPro HD and capture using FireWire. Production Services insists that we capture using SDI, but so far they haven’t been able to make it work correctly.
Now I need to capture Digital Beta, so they’re going to pull the BM (which they’ve never used before now) and substitute a KONA 3 which they’ve never used ever.
Any words of advice? Compelling arguments? Can the Kona transcode DBeta to DVCPro HD 720p24 on the fly through SDI and amke it play on the timeline with the rest of my footage?
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What are you sad about? Getting a Kona 3 is a sweet upgrade!!!!
It will do everything that you said!
Lucky!!!
(how are those for encouraging words?)
-Russ
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Not bad. Thanks for that. Now can you make me believe that Production Services knows what they’re doing?
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hmmmm… where’s that liquor?
-Russ
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[Russell Lasson] “It will do everything that you said!”
Well…yes and no. It will upconvert to whatever codec/frame size you want, but it won’t do a frame rate conversion. The Digibeta stuff is 60i and the DVCPRo HD is 24p. The Kona will upconvert to 60p, then you have to do a 60p -> 24p conversion elsewhere in software.
Your results may vary.
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opps… wrong forum.
(I guess it will be an inside joke for the Kona folks)
-Russ
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Yes. 60i to 24p conversion after the fact.
Unless your footage has a 2:3 pulldown in it, but I don’t know if that’s what he was dealing with.
-Russ
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[JeremyG] “Well…yes and no. It will upconvert to whatever codec/frame size you want, but it won’t do a frame rate conversion. The Digibeta stuff is 60i and the DVCPRo HD is 24p. The Kona will upconvert to 60p, then you have to do a 60p -> 24p conversion elsewhere in software.”
The easy way to get around this is simply bring in all your DVCPro HD as 59.94 instead of 24 and then you’ll have perfectly matching frame rates and maintain the 24p style of the DVCPro HD.
I did this on our short film which was shot both 24 and 25p and when we started running into audio sync issues, I simply went back and recaptured everything at 59.94. I’ve also done this successfully in broadcast matching SD to HD material shot in both 24 and 30p. Just capturing all the DVCPro HD to the native 59.94 frame and all matched up beautifully.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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Thanks everybody. It’s my favorite thing to switch hardware in the model of a big project!
But I’m glad for the benefit of your experience.
Thanks again.
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[Budrick21] “It’s my favorite thing to switch hardware in the model of a big project!”
Have you considered supergluing the lid on the G5/MacPro?
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