Dale Mccready
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Oh…I’m the dummy after all 🙂
At least I can console myself that the speeds they are quoting are just the beginning
Dale
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…It’s megabytes per second!
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Can you add to the letter above “sooner rather than later”? This is a real lump in the road of Varicam being adopted in New Zealand too
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exciting!
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Here in New Zealand where our delivery is mostly still SD PAL we need to be able to deliver 25FPS. Working in a FCP timeline of 25FPS whether 1080 or 720 makes a huge difference here, and currently you have to go for RAID and SDI capture to do 25FPS. I’ve done a fair bit through firewire at 23.98 and it’s great but this 25 thing is really holding up the adoption of the Varicam here.
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Fair comment. Why has this been such a drag? Is it possible do you think for Apple to do it anyway regardless of the EU? Are they not allowed to if that is the case. There is a need in teh marketplace for this. I know it would help. Surely Panasonic must find this very frustrating whoever is responsible for developing the capture at 25FPS.
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There is currently no capture to a 25FPS preset supported in FCP other than using a Blackmagic or Kona card. Firewire support just isn’t there for 25FPS which is frankly getting a bit frustrating.
Here’s an idea. Whay don’t all us PAL people get together and make a joint suggestion to apple to hurry up and support 25FPS Varicam capture. I personally would love to use the 1200 deck and not have to deal with uncompressed HD until I want to. Any takers?
Apple?…Apple?….Bueller?
No reply from Apple regarding this problem, and we’ve ben waiting for this for more than a year now.At least if Apple were able to give us an indication that they even cared about it, and were working on it, would be nice.
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Thanks Tony,
That makes sense to me. Is the information regarding the settings you talked about available with the Clarity when you use it?
Dale McCready
cinematographer
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Please watch your rhetoric, yes I have an idea how complicated the cadence shift is, and thank you for your response regarding capturing varispeed.
This just in from ClarityImage:
“And yes the footage gets converted in FCP or with the Panasonic FRC.”
Have you done tests of the software FRC and come up with this problem you talked about previously? Was the capture card you went for a solution to this for you?
I believe (but may well be wrong) that the software FRC is only concerned with either keeping or tossing out frames depending upon whether they are flagged in their user bits with a 1 or 0. once the frames marked as 1 are remaining they are then reassembled into a 23.98 clip. There’s not a lot of extra complication to this is there?
And so to put it out there again for dummies like me who may want to repeat your workflow, you are saying that your capture card can toss the dupe frames out on capture? Would you mind putting up a step by step of how you do this and what your sequence/clip settings become?
Does anyone know if the BlackMagic cards also do this?
I’m currently looking at the Clarity coontroller for a shoot involving a lot of stunts and action and would like to make sure that I don’t create any problems for post production.
Fore warned is fore armed!
Dale McCready
New Zealand