[Dan Riley]

Larry,
I ended up hooking up the 3/4 deck to our Pioneer DVD recorder
just like you said, but not using the component outputs, (I didn’t
think of it) just recording the 3/4 playback to the DVDs. I wanted to archive
everything to DigiBeta but just ended up recording to the DVDs for now.

I should have tried your idea too. I will next time.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Bob.
Yeah, it’s an A500. I’ll do the dub to digibeta first.
I’ve only owned the KONA3 for three months and I keep forgetting
it doesn’t have analog inputs like my old Pipe Studio did.
Turns out the rental house, Bexel, can’t get their old 3/4 inch deck
to run anyway, so now I’m looking for a place in Seattle to rent something else.
I don’t want to pay a facility in town to dub each reel. This is old
air checks for a buddy and some other stuff.

Happy New Year

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Still a little confused, yes.
When I said FCP is removing the extra frames on the fly, I was talking about
during playback in the sequence, which is incorrect? You are saying the KONA 3 DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98 Varicam setting removes the extra frames during capture?

Sounds like using the Varicam setting makes a lot of sense, so why would someone what to use KONA 3 DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98 (the one without Varicam) setting?
While using this setting will give you the same results as above by removing the flagged frames during capture, it also wants to make a format called 1080sf23.98
as a result. Why do that?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I thought I had read somewhere here that FCP DOES NOT do drop frame with
720p sequences. It Does?

Based on Jeremy’s comments, here’s what I think I’ll do:
I’ll capture and edit using the easy setup KONA 3 DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98 Varicam setting. And I’ll have the 1400 deck set to a system sync of 59.94. I’ll set my Tri Level sync generator to 720p, 59.94.

It sounds like what FCP does in this case, is remove the extra frames
on the fly? So this approach will take up more space for the capture,
but otherwise should be fine. Yes?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Jeremy. I’m like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs right now.
I just need to jump in to learn it and then I’ll calm down I’m sure.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

So Jeremy, I see that when I put the deck into 24/23 (23.98) mode,
the KONA card thinks the output is 1080sf23.98, not 1080psf23.98. Does this mean I do an easy setup using that setting, or do I use the easy setup for 720p23.98 ?

If I put the deck in 59.94 setting, then the KONA card thinks the footage is 720p59.94. Do I use that setting for the easy setup or here again, use the 720p23.98 which the footage actually is?

And what do you mean by “making new timecode from 30@24”?
Do I want to make new timecode? Sounds scary to me. I would never
do that in the SD world.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Yeah you’re right. I’ve gotten some advice from my VAR too about
settings on the deck and the sync generator etc., so I’m ready to
see what happens.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Can’t say this is your problem or not, but I’ve noticed in FCP 6, sometimes
I load in a clip from the viewer to the sequence and I get just what you are
describing. It seems like it was DV footage as I recall. Anyway what I found out was
sometimes the clip is displaced 1 pixel up or down. Apparently FCP does this
on it’s own. I believe it’s trying to fix the picture size with it’s new
“play any clip” timeline. You can easily fix this. Double click one of your clips
in the sequence to place it in the viewer. Go to the motion tab. In the second
box next to “center” see if there is a number 1 there. If there is, make it a zero.
If there is a zero there, try putting a 1 there and see what happens.

Let me know.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Yes, KONA 3.
The camera is the HDX900.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

It’s not really a chill out situation. I just keep reading opinions here
like they are fact. If Apple wants it’s professional users to wait until
they do updates, why don’t they tell their professional users that?
Why do we have to guess?

With new versions of FCP, absolutely I wait until the smoke clears.
So if people are saying the same thing related to Leopard, and
what they really mean is wait until Leopard has calmed down,
well that’s fine but not the same thing.

Dan