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Sending footage to someone with a 24pA project
Hi,
I apologize if this is a little too off topic, but I am hoping some of you have dealt with this in the past.
I will be shooting something for my own work (with a Canon XH-G1 HDV camera) and would like to share some of my footage with someone who is working on a related project that has all been shot with a DVX-100A in 24pA (widescreen). They are editing on Avid Express Pro(or some similar Avid flavor) on a PC. When they get anything other than what they shot at that frame rate on their own cameras it is a laborious process for them to create files they can work with. I don’t have all the information on what they are doing, but it involves de-interlacing and some other conversions that are a render nightmare on their system.
Anyway, if someone has a quick and easy way for them to handle 59.97i material (I was planning on sending them DV format quicktime files that are 59.97i) that is a simple plug in, etc. great. I’d be happy to give them that info. But my main question is if someone here has a way for me to provide files for them that they can directly use in their 24pA timeline or use with minimal processing. Basically we are a Final Cut Pro shop and we would normally capture our footage at 59.97 1080i with the DVCProHD codec and then finish at uncompressed. We have a Kona3 card and can do some cross-conversions on the fly. I would be sending them SD (definitely not HD) and currently just plan to send them 59.97i DV files, but any suggestions to ease their workflow woes would be welcome. It is a lot of material and the current render headaches to get it to 24pA may be just too big of an obstacle for them given limited time and budget.
Any suggestions?
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Okay,
So how about this workflow… I would capture to our Mac Pro via the Kona3 card doing a realtime cross-conversion from 59.97 1080i on input to 720P 23.98 DVCPro HD Varicam (which makes it 24p within the 59.97 timebase)as my captured files. Then I would export my captured files to NTSC DV files which, I believe, would be the equivalent of Panasonic’s 24P from the DVX. It still wouldn’t be 24pA, but would this be better?
Thanks for your suggestions.
Walter
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Thanks for your help.
I will send them those options and see what they say.
Walter
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