[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi again,
now I got it – you were talking about the CCD-chip itself. Yes that´s true , they have 965lines and they are using a pixel-shift internally, so the final resolution is 1080i50 with 1440×1080 pixels, of course.

THIS main principle is no upscaling, because they double the pixels by shifting the lines up/down while the content will be read out on the CCD. Of course you´ll have a better detail if your working with a 1920×1080 CCD-cam, but THIS is always a matter of money.

I bought a small canon HF-100 arround one year ago – it´s a consumer 1 chip-AVCHD-cam, but it´s got a real 1920×1080-chip, that´s creating a nice picture – but you better do not compare it with a professional or semi-pro cam, that shot on 1920 or 1440 pixel like sony Z1/EX1 or panasonic HVX-100/200. I was thinking about buying a better cam, but I´m no cam-operator, I´m an editor/author, so I finally decided to buy this small cam for my family-pictures 😉

If you discovered that your projector is doing a better picture if your input is 1080 that makes sence buy the way, because your native material IS 1080, that only needs to be deinterlaced.

So in my opinion the best way to go is 1080p23.98, so you will not get into deinterlaceing-trouble while playing your 1080i50 on your 1280p-projector. mostly their deinterlacing is really poor.

The speedup that you need to do to go 29.98fps is far to much! It wont sound and look naturely, so better slow down a bit – as I described in my last posting – this so called conforming is a common process for film/video-tranfer from PAL to NTSC/Film and vice versa. It´s been used for ALL films that has been shot on 23.98 and needs to be 25fps for broadcast or DVD in all 25fps-lands.

So I wouldn´t mind.

cu

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Terry,
the main reason why you shouldn´t go to 1080i60 is that you need to speed it up arround 120% but if your going down to 1080p24 you just need to slow down arround 4%. That´s the main reason why this is a common workflow in film-business for converting PAL to NTSC/FILM or vice versa.

You´ve been talking about starting on P2-material, so if you´ve shot in 1080i50 on your panasonic camera, the nativ format has 1440x1080pixel.

If you were talking about 960 lines this used to be DVCPROHD 720p50, this is nativ 960x720pixel with anamorph pixels.

So back to your projector: if you say it only have a 720p-resolution there is no (good reason) to go 1920 or interlaced, because it will be de-interlaced again in the projector, and scaled. these scaler wont be good.

better use the real nativ 720p then to scale it up within FCP (it has no good upscal-algorithm, too), better choose Innobits Purifier or Adobe After Effects if you would do this.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi chuska,
the media manager don´t like speed-ups and speed-downs! there is a big problem with it!

which version FCP you are using? I haven´t checked this within FCP7, but FCP5 or 6 having permanent problems with it.

be sure that used clips haven´t got the same names.

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Liam,
maybe this could help:

https://mxf4mac.com/mxf-import

It could open+playback the nativ mxf-file within quicktime.