Brad Hodgson
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Figured out letterboxing in compressor…
Okay, I’m confused. I just saw something. When I bring a 1080 UNXD file back from AE (after supers) and drop it into an FCP sequence, it sets field dominance to upper… although my file is interpreted w/o fields in AE and I render progressive…
I’m confused. I can edit DVCPROHD 30p footage always in a progressive timeline, right?
Brad Hodgson
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for the response. Sequence is an HD 1280×1080 with corresponding PAR using DVCPROHD 1080p30 codec. Field dominance set to none. Everything plays great in timeline, monitors fine on my broadcast.
I may try building supers in my FCP project instead of AE and send to compressor from there to eliminate the extra trip, though sorry… as much as I use compressor, I’ve never scaled and letterboxed within compressor… could you give a very quick explanation for a man on a tight deadline?
Thank you tons, Micheal…
Brad
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Great. Thank you, Filip!
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Thank you, Ben!
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Hi Ramona,
Thanks for the answer… yea, I know… sorry for the dumb question. I’m a motion graphics guy who is doing much more editing and delivery now, so I’m still learning things about the broadcast world, etc. Tons of help from this forum, so thanks again!
Brad
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Hey Jeremy,
Sorry to jump in here, but I’m having a similar issue… this makes sense as there was no input video signal when I was trying to layback 1080i to an HDCAM deck today with green noise and nasty artifacts from FCP. Sorry for a bit of a newbie question here, but when you say there needs to be an incoming video signal to reference from, does that mean I need to send the HD out from the deck back into my Kona SDI input to get the 1080 video signal input?
Again, sorry if this is a naive question, but you’ve (and many others) have helped me through things in the past, so I really appreciate it.
Brad Hodgson
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Hey Gary,
Thank you for the response…. yea, I do monitor from the broadcast, just weirded out why things aren’t synced up I guess. I don’t have my audio layback in yet, but I feel like the picture on the monitor is drifting out-of-sync…
And yea the project is 1080 on interlaced HDCAM tape… deck is set to 1080. I’m capturing 1080i 29.97 Pro-Res… sequence is the same. I’ve edited another 1080 project recently and I don’t remember having any issues… with this project I had some sync issues with an earlier spot, same shoot. Could very well be user error on my part, but I feel like I’ve everything set-up fine…
Brad Hodgson
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Ugh. Thanks, Dave. That’s what I was afraid of.
Brad Hodgson
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Yea that’s awesome. I actually do have a Kona card and I edit in FCP. I can’t downconvert to our dbeta yet for an SD master as I don’t have the right sync generator yet… though the tech guy is coming soon to install one and rewire our patch bay…
I guess I’m a bit confused with the HD format sometimes… and delivery methods. The 108024p to 108060i makes sense and is an easy conform (thanks to all of your guys’ help!) since it’s still interlaced, but HD stations that broadcast 720p do so at 720 59.94, right? Wouldn’t that be broadcasted at 72060p? This is only hypothetical because I haven’t had to deliver a 720p file yet… and I guess I’m trying to understand the conform now from 720p24 at a technical level even though I have the Kona card… since at this point we don’t have an HD deck, i can only assume I will need to prepare files for outsourced HD mastering… and even though i could probably deliver the finished spot at what I edited it at and the mastering house could send it to tape and conform it on the fly, it would be nice to know how to conform the files so I know what’s going on behind the scenes. But maybe I’m just thinking way too hard about it… haha!
Brad Hodgson
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Thanks Dave and all others for the responses… can I be terribly annoying and ask one more question related to the subject?
How does this all work with 720p footage shot at 24p (on p2)? 720 is always progressive, so outside of laying back to HD tape, how should a QT be prepared for broadcast delivery at 720? Do you have to do anything with a 720 24p file?
Thanks, millions…
Brad Hodgson