Io HD – Interlaced?

[Jeremy Garchow]

How’d you bring it in? What format? Are you sure the footage is 25p?

[Carsten Orlt]

As far as I know there is no 1080p25 ioHD preset.
All 1080 presets for 25/50 are interlaced.
I’m new to the whole HD thing so the following might be wrong. 1080 is always interlaced as of now and there is no true 1080p standard yet. progressive in 1080 is actually what is called PsF.
The naming conventions in HD are very confusing and it doesn’t help that different companies use different terms for the same thing.
You can set your 1080i seq to ‘none’ for the field order and that effectively makes it p in the regard that there will be be no field rendering. You have to make some test yourself as I’m not sure yet about all the implications myself. I for instance shot 720p25 and post in 1080i25 (or 50 depending on the manufacturer). It gets interesting when you do speed changes. Because if you keep field rendering on you theoretically end up with an interlaced image….
Hope this helps (might create more questions too 🙂

[Gary Adcock]

[Carsten Orlt] “As far as I know there is no 1080p25 ioHD preset.”

it is EU truth in labeling – since it is not P but PsF that is recorded by virtually all 1080 cameras – and that always plays back as interlace on your monitors and set tops.

It is no different than the Kona cards are.

[Carsten Orlt] “I’m new to the whole HD thing so the following might be wrong. 1080 is always interlaced as of now and there is no true 1080p standard yet. progressive in 1080 is actually what is called PsF.”

you may be new to this. however you do understand correctly.

“The naming conventions in HD are very confusing and it doesn’t help that different companies use different terms for the same thing.”

How true- why couldn’t Sony adopt the 59.94 standard that every other camera maker uses instead of calling theirs 29.97

gary adcock
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Matt. Are you seeing two distinct fields or are both fields of each frame the same?

[Matt Robson]

Interesting, very interesting thanks.

So basically, there is no point shooting 25p on HDCAM if I’m using the IoHD box, as it can’t replicate it? Or is it that there is no such thing as 1080p right now?

Sorry this is confusing!

Thanks again.

[Jeremy Garchow]

You are getting confused and it’s confusing…kind of. Progressive Segmented Frames are progressive frames in an interlaced wrapper. Both fields of the frame are the same so it looks progressive, it’s just in an interlaced stream. SO yes, you can shoot 25p, even though it might be spitting out interlaced from the Kona. Turn your field rendering to none in FCP. That is why I asked you if both fields are the same or different. That will tell you if you even shot 25p or not.

Jeremy

[Matt Robson]

– That is why I asked you if both fields are the same or different –

Apologies I missed that. Not sure how to check each field, when I set frames in the sequence to none, it seems to loose half it’s resolution, which makes me think that it is perhaps interlaced.

Seeing as I’m clearly a bit new to this, is there an online resource somewhere that I can read that will perhaps explain all this, so that I can leave you good people in peace?!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you have an external monitor hooked up? If so open up the ioHD COntrol Panel and click the codec tab. Make sure the ‘Full Frame’ radio button is checked. When you go back to FCP you should see both fields on your external monitor. If you are willing to post a second or two of video in it’s native form, I will be happy to take a look at it for you as well.

Jeremy

[Alan Lacey]

I’m confused about this PsF thing as well. If both ‘fields’ are identical isn’t the data rate unnecessarily doubled?

Alan

[Jeremy Garchow]

No. As you are sending one field at at time (which is half of a frame). It’s still 25 (or 30) frames a second, but it’s 50 or 59.94 fields per second.