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P2 capture/import question
We bought an HVX200 to get our feet wet in HD. I feel stupid in posing such
a basic question BUT: can anyone tell me where I can find step by step
instructions describing how to import and use 720p24 (and pn) video clips
into our NLE? We have a FCP 5.1 system connected via Firewire to the
in-camera P2 cards. All I get on my own is strobed video that is clearly
not usable. I look forward seeing what this whole -
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Thank you Shane. I actually already saw your valuable tutorial and have managed to get as far as your lesson took me. But after getting the media into the system I have the problem of using 24 frame video. I have no experience with pull downs or anything else of that sort. I tried on my own by changing the easy setup to 720p24 and by changing the editing timebase in a 720p60 sequence to 23.98 and 24. But these changes have not fixed the strobed quality of motion that is way beyond what one is accustomed to see in film. I must be doing something wrong, or perhaps not doing something very basic right.
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Well, your sequence settings should be 23.98. Why it looks strobey to you might be due to the way footage looks on the computer monitors, as they aren’t the full high res quality of the image. Viewing this on an external monitor will get you a better idea of what it really looks like. This means getting an HD Capture card and HD monitor, or an HD capture card that can downconvert to an SD monitor so that you can view the footage.
But I can tell you that it looks just fine, and I have LOTS of action happening in the footage I worked with.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Yes, I have all that (AJA Kona LHe out to a Sony HD CRT) but the monitor still shows an unusable picture. I must be doing something wrong in the process. Did I leave a step out? The 720p60 material looks fine as does the 1080i. It is just when I view 24p (in either 1080 or 720) that I have this strobe during movement.
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It might be the way it downconverts or some other setting. But it could be that you are very used to the fluid motion and video feel that 720p60 and 1080i and interlaced video gets you. So in comparison it looks odd.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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North,
Try closing your current project, going to Easy Setup and selecting DVCproHD 720/24. Then open a new project and re-import your footage from the original mxf files. When you place this footage on your new sequence things should look fine. I shot about 6 hours of 720/24pN footage and put it in a project using these settings and it looks great!
Hope this works.
Ken Summerall
Wellwater Productions, Inc.
“A non-profit production company specializing in media with a mission.”
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