Upgrade complete ?? re 1200 a and Varicam over/undercrank footage

[Walter Biscardi]

[J] “Waiting on delivery of b-stock Panasonic 1200a DVCPROHD deck with fw and hd/sd cards .”

Did you get it from the Broadcast Store by any chance? They called me asking to buy mine for a client and then I never heard back from them. They probably wanted to mark it up too much.

[J] “Will this system deal with various frame rates of DVCPROHD shot on a Varicam. I know their are FCP tools for 24 and 30 fps, but what about 12 or 48 or any of the other rates the Varicam can shoot.”

With a Kona HD card you can capture any of the Varicam frame rates directly into the system, but it’s always best to capture at 59.94 and then use the Frame Rate Converter tool to convert all the footage to the proper rate. There are all kinds of issues trying to capture correctly if you try to capture at all frame rates.

Let’s say you shoot 60fps and you want to capture it at 24 for slo mo. So you set up to capture at 24, but when you’re done capturing, you only captured 1/2 of the footage you expected to capture. It’s a long story, but just know it’s much easier to capture footage at 59.94 then convert.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Jay Kuntz]

Walter
Did not buy from TBS. If memory serves me correct, they didn’t respond to my end of year e-mail request for pricing and delivery. As far as mark-up…it is part of business and as long as brokers, distributors and engineering sales people are honest and fair, my thoughts on fair is 12%, I will continue to deal with good reps who do what they say they are going to do.

Good info on the Kona but since I am more of a DP, the budget for a Kona is non-existant. I want to use the 1200a F-wire as the I/O and also use the 1200a as an EE loop to a Dell WS. Hope,the hd/ddi out from deck, thru aja converter to dvi, is an ee signal brought back into deck via F/W as it is using the GV-D900.

Can I quote you on 59.94
I have worked for an unnamed producer that wanted footage shot at 59.48 and it took a few anxious moments to determine that indeed they wanted an off rate of 48fps from the Varicam. I had him call his editor and the frame rate number got put into “Yes 59.94 at 48fps Not 59.48”

Not looking to do any slo-mo capture, I want to use FCP as a frame rate converter so that the flagged frames recorded on the Varicam are, imported or converted via tools once I get the footage, into my system. Want playback as I shot it be that 12fps or 44fps.

Slo-mo….well thats a whole ‘nuther story in my career.

OBTW Food Net is a part of the quality programming avail. Always a pleasure for the family to take a look at whats on TFN.

J

[Walter Biscardi]

[J] “I want to use the 1200a F-wire as the I/O and also use the 1200a as an EE loop to a Dell WS”

That won’t work, even the 1200A manual tells you this won’t work. You’ll get intermittent black frames and image shift like a bad reference loop. The 1400 fixed this issue, but the 1200A cannot be used as a video E/E device for playback with Firewire.

[J] “Can I quote you on 59.94
I have worked for an unnamed producer that wanted footage shot at 59.48 and it took a few anxious moments to determine that indeed they wanted an off rate of 48fps from the Varicam. I had him call his editor and the frame rate number got put into “Yes 59.94 at 48fps Not 59.48″”

Never heard of 59.48, the camera ALWAYS shoots 59.94, it merely “flags” off-speed frames so you can convert the footage to whatever speed rate you really shot at.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters