[Carsten Orlt]

There is NO WAY to capture 720p25/60 via Firewire in FCP. It can’t be done. FCP simply doesn’t support the 60Hz system frequency (which is the required setting on the Varicam to record 25fps).

[Carsten Orlt]

have to do some more research 🙂
cheers

[Carsten Orlt]

in 25HD mode the 1200 produces a 1080i25 signal NOT 720!

[Carsten Orlt]

that is interesting. are you sure walter that you didn’t crossconvert the output from the 1200 from 1080 back to 720 via the Kona?

[Carsten Orlt]

Sergio
You’re quite correct, it is impossible to capture 720p25 Varicam material into FCP. And you can’t use the Kona (or any other card for that matter) to convert it, because neither the 1200 nor the 1400 Panasonic vtr play 720p25 Varicam material other then straight away converting it to 1080i25. There is some fancy tricky ‘jumping backwards through the hoop’ way of getting 720p25 through firewire, but its not worth the effort if your delivery is for television. Almost all broadcaster around the world want to have a 1080i master these days so you have to convert it to this standard anyway at some point.

Your friends concern were probably in regard to footage shot in interlace format. But your not having this problem 🙂 All that is happening is that your 720p25 is converted to 1080psf25. PSF stands for ‘progressive segmented frame’. It means that a progressive frame is just split into 2 fields for recording/transmission purposes. There is a 1080p standard BUT no Broadcaster (that I know off) is using it, because the amount of data would be to big to handle for transmission. So there is only 1080i (no easy preset in FCP/Aja for 1080p!).
I’m just starting my first 1080i25 project because of the exact same reason as you because we’re shooting mainly on Varicam. So far no problem and it shouldn’t have any!
The only thing that could have some effect theoretically is anything with a speed change. Because in a 1080i seq FCP does field rendering. But I have tried a few different speed changes and can’t see any problems.

That was the long answer 🙂
The short one: No problem at all and you’re straight away working in your mastering format and therefor can be assured if it works in FCP it’ll be fine on tape because you’ll not convert it again.
Carsten

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

Best to use the ioHD with Soundtrack for audio only.
Then again the latency is quite big while monitoring.
It works but I haven’t really put it through its paces yet.
I needed to record a quick VO but the delay drove me mad so I switch to the internal audio in/out of my powerbook for the time being.
So yes it works audio only, but you may have to figure out a good workflow first.

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

ok then, go and wash your face 🙂

Thanks Gary!

Cheers
Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

no worries Gary 🙂
would be great because I can’t test it as I don’t have the monitor to connect.
But it would solve my HD monitoring problem.
Color via SD and resolution via DVI 🙂
Cheers
Carsten

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

well then read the ioHD release note again!

and this is not ment as a joke 🙂

Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

does this mean I can now get 1 to 1 pixel mapping via DVI to a Dell or Apple (or whatever) 1920*1200 monitor?

Carsten