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Varicam variable framerate and HDCAM Workflow
Hi all, this might be a long one.
I’m working a short film which has been shot with a mixture of HDCAM and Varicam.
HDCAM foorage is 50i or 25p, and I have digitised it with the Kona3 to 1080i25 ProRes (HQ). Easy!
The Varicam footage has been … more interesting.
I have 2 tapes that were shot at 25p. I used the Kona3 to upconvert to ProRes (HQ) 1080i25 … so as to both mix nicely with the HDCAM footage and to get the nice hardware upconvert from 720 to 1080. Easy once i’d figured out the DVCPRO HD deck (I used the 1200A deck).The rest of the tapes have a mix of framerates, 28, 32, 48 and 60fps.
Using the advice that I found cow-wise, I took these tapes in via firewire, used the Panasonic frameconverter to remove duplicated frames and then passed through cinema tools to batch conform to 25fps. Looks good so far nice smoot slow motion.So now I have a sequence of slow mo clips from those tapes that I want to lay back to tape as 25fps in their now slow mo-ed state.
The clip details in the browser show that the clips are 25fps, framesize is 960×720 and the compressor is DVCPRO HD 720p60.
I have a HD deck, (hdw-s280) ready and waiting so that I can spit out a nice 1080i50 signal to it from the kona3.
But how do I set this up?
What sequence should I put the clips into and what video settings should I use.I only need video, no audio, which seems to lucky. But the upconverting on the way out of FCP (6.02) has me stuck.
Thanks for any help
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3 Replies
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Make a new sequence with the settings you would like to have on tape. Drag your clips to said sequence and render. Should write to tape post render.
Or you could always batch export the clips at your preferred settings. Then drag them to a blank sequence and allow FCP to match up the settings accordingly.
Either way it is important that you make sure to change your frame size from 960 to 1080.
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Cool!
One question though .. does rendering in fcp not mean that the conversion is done by software rather than nice fancy hardware?
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You could certainly push it through. I believe you’d want to timeline to reflect your footage and set your card to output 1080i50.
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Zoe: Shoot ’em?
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