[Ceri Allen]

ok thanks. I can start with the full quality videos that would be HDV1080i, 1920×1080 and compress to WMV from there. However the movie size, though it random, has been requested by a client and I can’t change it.
But I’d still like to know what software to use for the conversion to get the best results

[Ceri Allen]

Hi

Blackmagik card has the analogue output which goes to a loom, and the SDI output.

the deck has S video in, SDI video in and audio in.
also has component out and HDMI out.

I did try to output HDV through firewire but FCP only had options for firewire out at Pal 720×576 and the record mode option became greyed out on the deck when the VCR was set to HDV mode.

Thanks

Ceri

[Ceri Allen]

Hi

thanks for your quick response.

The shoot is happening using a varicam. The 50fps and 60fps frame rates are simply picked by the camera operator to purely to get a slow mo effect, regardless as whether they are standardly NTSC or PAL frame rates.

Ultimately everything will end up in final cut at 25 fps, hence the edit will be a PAL project.

I am not too worried about the 50fps and 60fps footage as audio is not required for this and I have managed to digitise in slow-mo using the workflow as stated before, though i will also look at using the frame rate converter as you said.

The normal footage (non slow-mo) is also being filmed on a varicam at the standard rate of 25fps. My problem is that when digitizing this it is out of sync with the audio. This is what I really need some advice on, if you have any idea why this is happening?

many thanks for your help

Ceri

[Ceri Allen]

The variable frame rates (30/37) are to get a slow motion effect that looks decent quality (but there isn’t enough budget to use film). Therefore most of the footage will be at standard 25 fps.

The footage will all be edited on a DVCPRo HD 108050i sequence set to 25fps. The compressor is DVCPro HD 720p50.

As it is for a music video I need to capture it so that it remains in synch with the audio.

Do I need to conform the 30/37 to 25fps to use it on a 25fps timeline, will this allow the slow mo to be created?
Also how do I set final cut up to do this?

Thanks very much for your help with this, i have been warned by people that varicam can cause loads of problems!

[Ceri Allen]

Thanks for the reply.

Just another question. I used deinterlace to overcome the probem of the image flickering when played out to a moniter (though it was from a DVCPro timeline). Some of the flickering seemed to be because final cut had automatically added a shift fields filter but others just flickered anyway. Is there anyway to overcome this other than removing the shift fields shot by shot?

Also I now have rendered de-interlaced DVCPRo timelines which look fine when they play out to a moniter (even the slow-mo doesn’t actually look too bad as most are over 50%). I now realise I went about it in the wrong way but rather than creating new timelines and re-rendering is there any other reason that DVCOPro should not be used to lay off to digi-beta?

[Ceri Allen]

Hi Michael, thanks for replying

Yes there is a black magic card so I can play out HD but I was told it would be quicker to render a DVCPro timeline rather than a HD one.Also I am exporting to quicktime movie after the digi-beta tapes have been made so again i though exporting from a DVCPro timeline would be quicker.

I used de-interlace as final cut added a shift field filter to every shot in the HD timeline and when I played out into a TV this made the image flicker. Rather than going through and deleting the filter from every shot I used deinterlace as a quicker way as it seemed to solve the flickers. However it seemed to take ages to render. Is there a better way to do this?

I wanted to avoid making a quicktime movie as once it has been watched on a television monitor there are small changes that may need to be made.

Overall I guess there are two ways I should of done this (both better than the method I have used !):

Nest my edited sequence from the HDV1080i50 timeline into a Uncompressed 10-bit PAL 48KHz (taken the time to remove the shift field filters and not applied a de-interlace)?

Or simply rendered my HDV1080501 sequence (again making sure to remove the shift fields)and used the black magic card to down convert it to SD as it plays out?

Which would be best and the quickest method in terms of render time?

Sorry for all the questions, I am up against a deadline and still trying to learn about different codecs!!