Z1 hdv to DVCProHD 100 < how to?

[Mladen Erjavec]

[Craig Meadows] “-Capture via firewire then use the Kona-2 to transcode somehow to DVCPro100? If so, how do you do that?
-Anyone doing this?
-How does it look and perform?”

I’m doing exactly that – capturing HDV via firewire and then converting it to DVCproHD using FCP’s Media Manager. I can’t see any difference in picture quality whatsoever. Pros: you get to keep the timecode, and you have at least some form of VCR control over firewire. Cons: HD purists will tell you that some quality will get lost this way. You decide.

Other way is to capture using analog component output directly to KONA as DVCproHD. Cons: no VTR control, no timecode.

Best,
Mladen

[Gary Adcock]

[Craig Meadows] “-Capture via firewire then use the Kona-2 to transcode somehow to DVCPro100? If so, how do you do that? -Anyone doing this?\ -How does it look and perform?”

This is a real time function when capturing to the Kona 2 and Kona LH boards, you choose the Kona 1080i60 DVCPROHD Easy Set up. It is NOT done over FW. It has to be done in component out from the camera into the Board (the Kona LH board was designed just for this reason)

I have done it a number of times now and it works fine.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Jeremy Garchow]

Would it be possible to do as gary says and use the 1080i60 DVCPro HD easy set up, and then change the deck control to firewire in the capture window? Or maybe this workflow is a pipe dream and I’m smoking something goofy.

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[Gary Adcock]

[JeremyG] “Would it be possible to do as gary says and use the 1080i60 DVCPro HD easy set up, and then change the deck control to firewire in the capture window? Or maybe this workflow is a pipe dream and I’m smoking something goofy.”

yes it does work Jeremy, (an by the way you can do it with a 1200a deck also if you are having trouble with your 4:2:2 serial control)

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Scott Davis]

If you are going component out of an HDV deck and using RS-422 for deck control; does TC cary over via RS-422?

[Gary Adcock]

[Scott Davis] “If you are going component out of an HDV deck and using RS-422 for deck control; does TC cary over via RS-422?”

Yes SMTPE timecode does move over Serial ( RS-422) it an also be passed over the Firewire connection
while the video is passing thru the component out.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Mladen Erjavec]

[gary adcock] “it an also be passed over the Firewire connection
while the video is passing thru the component out. “

Gary, how do you do this? I’ve tried changing device control to all possible firewire options available, none works. if I select “HDV firewire” in setup before opening “Log & Capture”, it won’t even let me open it.

Is there a catch? If it isn’t too much trouble, could you explain exactly how do you do this?

Thank you ,

Mladen