Kona LHi: zoom letterbox issue

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Shane,

Thank you. Were you able to find out if you have the DVCPRO HD option with the Kona LHi? I don’t see it on my end. I seem to have only Apple ProRes and other options but not DVCPRO HD.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Nicholas Natteau] “Can you specify the exact procedure in Compressor? “

You have to make your own preset.

In the frame controls tab, under the deinterlace option, there’s a ‘reverse telecine’ menu option.

So you’d bring in the NTSC movie to Compressor, first choose a codec (I recommend ProRes) set a custom frame rate to 23.976 in the “Encoder” tab > Video settings button and leave the audio set to passthrough.

Then in the frame controls tab, turn them on and set the deinterlace to Reverse Telecine.

In the geometry tab, set your frame size to where it needs to be, which in your case is 1280×720.

If you post a few seconds, I can post the differences.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

Give a guy a chance to wake up and get to work! Sheesh, east coasters…or whereever you are located.

Yup, I have it. In the EASY SETUP menu, choose DVCPRO HD as the FORMAT, or just HD. There you will see it. If you don’t, then uninstall and reinstall your drivers. Or get the latest ones and install those.

Shane

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[Nicholas Natteau]

OK Shane thank you. That’s one of the great things about being here on the east coast…fcp pro video tech support hours being 6am to 6pm pacific time means 9am to 9pm here…great to have tech support until 9pm. I had that last year.

Thank you for checking the settings. I’ll redokwnload the Kona Lhi software.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Shane,

Can you tell me why DVCpro HD is better than Pro Res. Pro video support told me to use Apple Pro Res instead of Dvcpro Hd so I’m a little confused. Why would Dvcpro HD be better for up converting?

[Shane Ross]

[Nicholas Natteau] “Can you tell me why DVCpro HD is better than Pro Res.”

I can’t. It isn’t. BUT…in this particular case, it is, because you SHOT DVCPRO HD. Staying native the entire way, then upconverting when you output means that you retain full quality, and you don’t lose a generation transcoding to another format. ANd yes, you will lose quality.

[Nicholas Natteau] “Pro video support told me to use Apple Pro Res instead of Dvcpro Hd so I’m a little confused.”

Who? APPLE ProVideo Support? What the hell do they know about real world workflows. They just know things they read in FAQs.

Ask Walter Biscardi too. He and I have delivered upteen hours of TV programming that was shot DVCPRO HD, edited DVCPRO HD (720p), and the cross converted to 1080p or 1080i when we output and everything looked great. Talking over a hundred hours of programming. And one show I had projected on a 20′ theatre screen. jaw dropping.

[Nicholas Natteau] “Why would Dvcpro HD be better for up converting?”

Because you are taking the native format then OUTPUTTING to the format you need. You aren’t transcoding, gaining a layer of compression, THEN outputting.

Shane

GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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