PLEASE Help me capture 720p24 10bit

[Jeremy Garchow]

You should be able to select the 720p 23.98 10 bit VARICAM kona preset and be on your way.

Jeremy

[Eli Mavros]

I know that I should….but it does not work. I have been working on this thing since 10am…been on the phone with AJA, Panasonic, Teck guys from where we rented the deck…and still haven’t figured it out.

Eli Mavros

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yikes.

You’re probably sick of telling the story, but what is happening?

[Gary Adcock]

[Eli Mavros] “I know that I should….but it does not work. I have been working on this thing since 10am…been on the phone with AJA, Panasonic, Teck guys from where we rented the deck…and still haven’t figured it out.”

please confirm
you have plenty of footage on the tape,there are no TC breaks, you are not capturing over a Speed ramp, you are positive that the footage is 24p ( you checked the User bits on in the Kona control panel), you are not capturing bars and tone as captured on the tape or anything that could have been generated in camera.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Eli Mavros]

Funny that I am the only one to experience this (maybe since the driver updates?)…but I finally figured it out on my own…after 8 hours of tech support. In Audio/Video Setting I went to the capture presets and actually had to change one of the settings in the “AJA Kona LH: 720p 23.98 10 Bit Varicam” setup. By default the Input on this setting is set to “720p59.94 (1280×720)”, but it needs to be set to “720p59.94 (1280×720) VariCam”. Man this was a terrible day for such a stupid little thing that should have been set in the first place.

Thanks for trying to help,
Eli Mavros

Eli Mavros

[Gary Adcock]

[Eli Mavros] “I know that I should….but it does not work. I have been working on this thing since 10am…been on the phone with AJA, Panasonic, Teck guys from where we rented the deck…and still haven’t figured it out.”

please confirm
you have plenty of footage on the tape,there are no TC breaks, you are not capturing over a Speed ramp, you are positive that the footage is 24p ( you checked the User bits on in the Kona control panel), you are not capturing bars and tone as captured on the tape or anything that could have been generated in camera.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Eli Mavros]

Funny that I am the only one to experience this (maybe since the driver updates?)…but I finally figured it out on my own…after 8 hours of tech support. In Audio/Video Setting I went to the capture presets and actually had to change one of the settings in the “AJA Kona LH: 720p 23.98 10 Bit Varicam” setup. By default the Input on this setting is set to “720p59.94 (1280×720)”, but it needs to be set to “720p59.94 (1280×720) VariCam”. Man this was a terrible day for such a stupid little thing that should have been set in the first place.

Thanks for trying to help,
Eli Mavros

Eli Mavros

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’d report that to AJA and let them know. I’m sure they’ll fix it in the next driver update.

[Eli Mavros]

Funny that I am the only one to experience this (maybe since the driver updates?)…but I finally figured it out on my own…after 8 hours of tech support. In Audio/Video Setting I went to the capture presets and actually had to change one of the settings in the “AJA Kona LH: 720p 23.98 10 Bit Varicam” setup. By default the Input on this setting is set to “720p59.94 (1280×720)”, but it needs to be set to “720p59.94 (1280×720) VariCam”. Man this was a terrible day for such a stupid little thing that should have been set in the first place.

Thanks for trying to help,
Eli Mavros

Eli Mavros

[Eli Mavros]

Sorry for posting my response so many times…It kept not going though (so I thought), and now it is up there 3 times.

Gary-
“please confirm
you have plenty of footage on the tape,there are no TC breaks, you are not capturing over a Speed ramp, you are positive that the footage is 24p ( you checked the User bits on in the Kona control panel), you are not capturing bars and tone as captured on the tape or anything that could have been generated in camera. ”

Eli-
I had plenty of footage on the tape, there were no TC breaks, no speed ramp, the footage was definitley 24p, and I did not capture any bars and tone. Like I said, it was that capture setting that was wrong.

FYI, I found an easy way to take 60p footage and run it at 24 for slow motion…even if it is not in the DVCPro HD Codec (which is necessary to use Panasonics TFC). I was really worried about this, because we did shoot some footage this way, and I was afraid that I would have difficulty doing the slow mo thing once we onlined the footage at 10bit. I captured the clip at 60p and then conformed it to 23.98 in Cinema tools. Brought that clip into FCP and compared it to the DVCPro HD clip that was converted with the TFC…and voila, they were exactly the same length and frame accurate. No need to do any exporting or nothing.

Tnanks for the responses,
Eli Mavros

Eli Mavros