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REAL Printing to Tape via ADVC Problem.
Hi,
OK as I said in previous post, my apologies for the incorrect name of the post and for any confusion that may ensued. This was going to be my first question but I was still trying various “solutions” to the problem. Well I’ve hit rock bottom; I’ve tried everything I possibly could to try fix it, but to no avail. Right so here’s my problem:
My boss has shot some footage on his XDCAM EX (PMW-350) and he needs me to dump it down to tape for archiving purposes. He has shot at full res (1920 x 1080 50i). Now I can only Print to Tape (I’m using Vegas Pro 10) via an ADVC 100, with the Composite Output going through to a DVCAM Sony DSR-80P deck. Now obviously the ADVC can only output a PAL/NTSC signal, so I’ve had to pre-render the footage as PAL Widescreen.
Now the problem comes when there’s is motion in the footage/shot (i.e pans, zooms and tilts) with a fairly bad flickering occurring predominantly on hard horizontal and vertical lines. Now I’ve definately put a reduce interlace flicker on ALL the clips which did nothing really and I’ve tried every stabilizing filter at my disposal (sometimes even stacking filters). The proDAD Mercalli filter smoothed out a lot of the flicker but created like a “drop-out” effect on the clip. So now I’m stumped, is there anything I could have overlooked/missed/not thought of??
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[Karl Reith] “My boss has shot some footage on his XDCAM EX (PMW-350) and he needs me to dump it down to tape for archiving purposes. He has shot at full res (1920 x 1080 50i). Now I can only Print to Tape (I’m using Vegas Pro 10) via an ADVC 100, with the Composite Output going through to a DVCAM Sony DSR-80P deck. Now obviously the ADVC can only output a PAL/NTSC signal, so I’ve had to pre-render the footage as PAL Widescreen.”
Archiving HD to SD is probably not what your boss had in mind. You can hardly consider that an “archive” when you will be throwing 5x the resolution away going from 1920×1080 to 720×576. I’m sure when your boss said archive, he is expecting it to remain HD. You should probably ask him to make sure.
You don’t archive XDCAM to tape. You archive it to optical discs or hard drives.
~jr
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Thanks for replying John,
OK maybe I was the one slightly confused; Archiving might’ve been a hasty term, however, whatever the term is he does want the footage put onto DVCAM tape for the life of me I can’t see why?? We’ve already started putting all of the footage onto cheap hard drives, but my boss is positive he wants a “copy” of the footage on DVCAM tapes.
Irrespective of all that, I still have this problem with jerky footage when printing to tape via the ADVC. I did a test, just to see if it was a problem with either the ADVC or with Vegas, by playing out the footage straight from the camera to the DVCAM deck (Sony DSR-80P) and the footage was stunningly clean!
So now I’m completely stumped as to what the problem could be?? Like I said I’ve tried every filter, etc available to me and nothing has worked!
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Since DVCAM is DV, why don’t you render the project to DV Widescreen first. Then use the Vidcap program to dump the DV AVI file to tape via the ADVC. That workflow should work fine.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks for the reply John,
Yeah I’ll give it a try, hopefully that’ll sort it out! Will let you know if it works!
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