[Bryan Arnold]

Walter: “Nope, the look is still there because the camera was in 24 mode.”

So the deck knows, and converts, 24p from the tape to NTSC?

Walter: “But the deck doesn’t need to read the frames when capturing, your system does.”

Is this statement conflicting with the first one?

Thank you so much for your help on this Walter.

[Bryan Arnold]

Agreed about the off-speed stuff, but, you say just capture everything at 60 because that matches the NTSC output, but the client wants the “24p look”. If I just captured everything at 60 then wouldn’t that negate the 24p look?

Since the camera always records at 60 anyway, I would need to only capture the flagged frames to get the 24p output.

So, leaving out the off speed stuff, the client asked my why I didn’t just capture the footage off the deck via the SD SDI output, that way it was allready NTSC, to save time. I said that I had to capture it at 24 then convert it because that was the only way we could get converted 24p off the tape, is this correct? I thought the deck did not read flagged frames, and always spit out 60, and to get any other frame rate you needed a way to pull the flagged frames. Unless the deck does in fact read and convert 24p to NTSC out of its SD SDI output.

[Bryan Arnold]

I think that is what I am going to do for now on…

I burned tests to a DVD and tried them on some different sets with different players, and every time the reference looked better then the direct one.

[Bryan Arnold]

With the high quality setting you metioned, no change…

[Bryan Arnold]

System… G5, All the current updates to the os and final cut pro studio.

Source: DVCPRO-50 30p capture via SDI from deck to KONA-2 to fcp (dvcpro-50 codec in fcp).

No effects placed on clip, DVCPRO-50 NTSC default setting from FCP and KONA setups.

[Bryan Arnold]

Update link to explain the setup here. CharlieX2, I think you misunderstood me, these are my tests… Unless you were telling others to run their own tests, in that case, nevermind.

Also, that would be ineresting to see if others have the same problem, running thier own tests.

[Bryan Arnold]

Thanks, I’ll try that.

[Bryan Arnold]

Thanks, that is what I have been doing, it would be nice to type in the source clip timecode in the canvas though…