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Brandon Parris
October 30, 2008 at 6:31 pm in reply to: HDX-900 1080 30p footage looks awful when digitized into Final Cut Pro

Thanks for the help Jeremy, I’ll give it a shot. Unfortunately I don’t have the hard drive with the 1080i60 sample on me as it’s being used in the field currently, but in looking at it on their monitors when we did the test I know it resolved the artifacting issue. I will try changing the field dominance once I get the 1080i60 sample back, and see if that does the trick while giving me progressive footage.

I had another phone call with the engineer this morning, and he said that in the future if I want true progressive out of this camera I should shoot in 720p. Our deliverable on this stuff is to the web, we are only shooting in HD to future proof the footage, because the clients I work for end up recycling footage from other shows and vendors quite often, and they want to have a standard look when they mix and match footage in a show. That current standard is DVCPRO HD 1080p30.
Brandon Parris
October 30, 2008 at 5:57 pm in reply to: HDX-900 1080 30p footage looks awful when digitized into Final Cut Pro

They just give us the quicktime media. They give us a killer price that keeps us from having to shell out the $18,000 or so for a DVCPRO HD deck. I now have them capture everything using the DVCPRO HD 1080i60 preset and it looks fine, even stuff shot on this camera as 1080p30. I only get this wierd artifacting when they capture using the DVCPRO HD 1080p30 preset. They capture firewire from the deck to an internal raid, then lay off the files to one of my hard drives.

I have verified that their DVCPRO 1080p30 setting is exactly the same as the one on my copy of FCP, so I am sure that no one has tweaked the settings from their defaults. Perhaps the settings need to be tweaked? I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to get a 1080p image if the camera records 1080p as 60i? Some type of pulldown?
Brandon Parris
October 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm in reply to: HDX-900 1080 30p footage looks awful when digitized into Final Cut Pro

The link below contains a 5 second pan of some signage. I see a lot of blockiness in the “O” of the US open logo, plus look at the “M” in Johnny Miller on the cardboard sign. I’m seeing this type of artifacting on all smallish detail like this. The file is around 60 MB DVCPRO HD 1080 30p.

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=TTdIeEVhZy9OQnp2Wmc9PQ
Brandon Parris
May 1, 2008 at 11:47 pm in reply to: Capturing from HDX-900 to macbook pro on set

I’ve looked into the AJA I/o box, and it would definitely do the trick. The problem is the $3,000 price tag. I’m just looking for a method to ingest DVCPRO HD using the equipment I already own until I can save up the money to do it proper.