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How to capture 23.98 HDCAM footage to DVCProHD 1080 29.97 using Kona2 and J-H3 HDCAM Deck?
So this is a fairly specific question…
I’m currently trying to capture footage shot at 23.98fps on a Cinealta. I’m using a Sony J-H3 deck to capture footage over HD-SDI to my Kona2 card using FCP5.
I’m trying to capture to a DVCProHD 1080 29.97 timeline. When I did something similar with native Varicam footage,…it was definitely much easier. I had the deck out put 1080 @ 29.97 and life was relatively easy.
Not so with the J-H3,…after hours of trials with what seemed to be the “logical” method, the only way I ended up getting my capture to work was to set the J-H3 at 23.98 (w/ PullDown). The captured footage is showing that it has been captured successfully as DVCProHD 1080 @ 29.97, but I’m not entirely sure this was the proper way to do this.
Any feedback on this? I was under the impression that you always want to output the proper timebase from the deck rather than have the Kona2 card handle that.
Thanks!
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We are doing the exact same thing. As far as I can tell so far were fine. Set the J-H3 at 23.98 (w/ PullDown) and that give you 29.97 into the Kona. We just finished capturing all the footage and will be mutlicam editing it tomorrow. This is my first HD edit so take what I say with that in mind, but the company I got the deck from said this is how it’s done. We are editing with the Kona LH which shouldn’t make any difference.
Dave
Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7 -
We are doing the exact same thing. As far as I can tell so far were fine. Set the J-H3 at 23.98 (w/ PullDown) and that give you 29.97 into the Kona. We just finished capturing all the footage and will be mutlicam editing it tomorrow. This is my first HD edit so take what I say with that in mind, but the company I got the deck from said this is how it’s done. We are editing with the Kona LH which shouldn’t make any difference.
Dave
Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7
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