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Varicam – FrameRateConversion – PAL question – shane?
Hi!
I have the opportunity to play around with some Varicam footage and a 1200 with the FireWire card installed, but before I wet my hands i wonder how to capture the footage.
It was shot in 25p and I can either capture via Firewire or HD-SDI
I have read that you can make your own DVCPRO HD 720/1080 25p sequnce presets to accomodate PAL footage,
Right/Wrong?
If right: I guess I have the “lack of 25p” problem out of my head
The next problem is hof the pulldown will be done. Do I need the Pana “blackbox” -;) to do this, or can it be done directly on import to FCP?
Or can I use the framerateconcerter as described by Shane?
OK. This is a first so if my questions are dumb, beat me with a big stick!
Gunleik
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I don’t work with PAL footage, so I have yet to investigate any of this. But looking at the EASY SETUPs I notice the only PAL setting is 1080i50. No 720P support for 25P. So you can’t even capture it, much less convert it. The converter I talked about is meant to slow footage shot at 60fps to 24fps.
Why is there no PAL 720P support for this camera? That shuts out a HUGE market.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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They do sell a “black box” universal converter (about 25.000$)and you can either capture through HD-SDI to 1080i50 or capture at 60 fps and manually remove the unwanted frames … -;)) (Basically jokin’ on this one)
But I wondered wether there were any native options…
And yes: This is a problem in PAL-land…
But the camera is just sooo beautifull.
Supposedly FCP is supposed to get some p25 capture preset in v6.
But to anyone familiar with cinematools: Is it programmeable to different pulldownpatterns?
Just pondering here -;)
Or maybe some Automator script with the Black Magic “View quicktime files as single frames” software.
Gunleik
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Can you shot and work with footage at 720p24, finish your project, then convert to PAL for your final delivery? Output to DVCPRO HD and have that converted to a PAL D5 or HDCAM (whatever your delivery specs are).
That is the only way I can think of how to do it.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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Yes, I guess this is the way to go.
Just now I’m struggeling with a shoot we did with a (very friendly and helpfull) Pana-rep.
Wouldn’t the p50 from decklink work?
Gunleik
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Yes, you can capture uncompressed 8-bit HD with the decklink card, I see that option. It wil eat away at your drive space though. And you will need a SATA or Fibrechannel Raid.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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