Barry Green
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[John] “Or are you simply saying that the recapture is unnecessary because I could just throw the original DV footage into a 4:2:2 uncompressed timeline and render it out?”
Exactly. Working in 10-bit is superior for color correction, etc., so your instincts are good. But keep in mind the limitation of the source footage, and that it just isn’t going to get any better if you re-capture it into uncompressed 10-bit… what you have on your hard drive already is as good as it’s ever going to get, so you can skip the whole recapture process and just re-render what you’ve got.
[John] “If I don’t have boundless HD space, isn’t it a normal thing to capture your tapes in a low-res format (like DV), edit as ‘offline’, and then recapture the same tapes at the full-res DVCProHD 4:2:2 (or even uncompressed) to do color correction?”
Not really. DVCPRO-HD doesn’t take up that much space; in the worst case it takes up 4x as much space as DV. Which means that it’s still cheaper to put DVCPRO-HD on a hard disk than it is to put it on tape! I bought an external SATA 500GB hard disk for $279 at Best Buy a while back; that’s about 10 hours of 1080 footage, or 25 hours of 720/24pN. Why go through the hassles of offline/offline/conforming/etc when you could just work with the original native footage and be done the first time?
Offline/Online was far more important when drives were slow and expensive; now drives are fast and cheap, and the whole offline/online workflow becomes less relevant. Most HVX shooters are cutting their HD originals and not bothering at all with offline/online.
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Transfer speed is going to be limited by your hard disk.
On my WinXP laptop using a direct PCMCIA CardBus slot, I can transfer an 8GB card in just over 5 minutes. That’s about as fast as it’s going to get with today’s laptop hard drive speeds.
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Raylight’s RayMaker program converts MXF files into .AVI files. When doing so it will (optionally) strip out duplicate frames.
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[John] “Or do I have a misperception there?”
The misperception would be in thinking that you’d gain anything by doing it that way. When the DVX records, it records to DV format (which means 4:1:1 color sampling, and 5:1 DV compression). Any advantage of live uncompressed 4:2:2 is GONE when you record. So yes you could recapture, but you’d be capturing compressed 4:1:1 footage into an uncompressed timeline. Which is silly, because you already have that same data on your hard disk. You can’t get better than DV footage out of a DV recording.
You can choose to edit your DV footage in an uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit timeline if you want, but there’s no reason to go recapturing footage, you could just convert the footage you already have on your hard disk.
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That applies to the HVX200, but not to the HPX2000 (which is what the original poster was asking about).
I don’t know why the HPX2000 doesn’t do it, but the forthcoming HPX500 will. If you need/want a 2/3″ HVX, the HPX500 has the same overcranking/undercranking features that the HVX200 has.
The HPX2000 appears to be aimed at network/broadcast/news shooters. It doesn’t offer variable frame rates, and it also doesn’t (currently) offer 24pN mode.
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[Frosch] “Anyone, correct me if I’m wrong, but when in 24P mode, you must focus manually. You lose the autofocus feature when you aren’t shooting 60i.”
Not necessarily true. That was only applicable to the original DVX100, but in the 100A and 100B autofocus is enabled for all modes. It only really works well in 60i; at slower frame rates it (naturally) responds a lot slower.
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What Avid? If it’s XPress Pro HD, you need at least version 5.2.3 or later.
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It was designed specifically to work with P2 cards (in addition to other PCMCIA cards). Many beta testers have reported that they’re very happy with the product.
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Some editors handle 24p and 24pa better than others. Sony Vegas, for example, doesn’t care whatsoever — you can freely intermix them, it’s intelligent enough to sense the pulldown pattern and remove it on the fly.
Apple FCP, however, can’t do that with 24p footage. It requires you to use an external step of running Cinema Tools on the footage.
I thought Premiere Pro 2 could handle proper pulldown extraction from both modes of footage…
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The FS-100 is still the leading candidate. The Specialized Communications CinePorter has been scheduled for a Summer debut.
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