[Darius Fisher]

Great answers, Jeremy, Thanks!

I’m mostly really warming to the idea of using the 1400 but … I must reiterate my first question;

1) “How do the results (of the 1400’s hardware upconvert) compare to say the Kona 3, or doing it in an FCP timeline, or with compressor or Teranex or Snell and Wilcox boxes?

You have made it very clear that the 1400 can remove either type of pulldown without a problem which is great!
Also, the aspect ratio, full frame 16:9 issue seems a non-issue, also great.

But for the other methods; i.e.

a) Software or Desktop solutions; FCP/Kona3/Compressor/InstanHD/Magic Bullet/BCC5 Uprez etc., and then

b) dedicated facility based Hardware solutions; i.e.

Teranex; (mini/VC100/300/600) or

Snell and Wilcox’s boxes; (Alchemist Platinum Ph.C, Quasar Ph.C, Ukon)

… I’m mostly concerned about how their upscaling quality compares with the 1400’s and not so interested in their pulldown removal ability since, as you rightly said, that should be done first using RSFields kit or such like for software solutions,

(Teranex and Snell and Wilcox is a whole ‘nother ball of wax’ – each with their own strengths and weaknesses as far as fields or pulldown detection and removal)

I’d so love to do a shoot out of all these solutions and all the common sources.

But anyway, once again, how good is the 1400’s up-convert? How does it compare?
thanks again

Once I knew everything

[Darius Fisher]

Great answers, Jeremy, Thanks!

I’m mostly really warming to the idea of using the 1400 but … I must reiterate my first question;

1) “How do the results (of the 1400’s hardware upconvert) compare to say the Kona 3, or doing it in an FCP timeline, or with compressor or Teranex or Snell and Wilcox boxes?

You have made it very clear that the 1400 can remove either type of pulldown without a problem which is great!
Also, the aspect ratio, full frame 16:9 issue seems a non-issue, also great.

But for the other methods; i.e.

a) Software or Desktop solutions; FCP/Kona3/Compressor/InstanHD/Magic Bullet/BCC5 Uprez etc., and then

b) dedicated facility based Hardware solutions; i.e.

Teranex; (mini/VC100/300/600) or

Snell and Wilcox’s boxes; (Alchemist Platinum Ph.C, Quasar Ph.C, Ukon)

… I’m mostly concerned about how their upscaling quality compares with the 1400’s (and not so interested in their pulldown removal ability since, as you rightly said, that should be done first using RSFields kit or such like for software solutions,

(Teranex and Snell and Wilcox is a whole ‘nother ball of wax’ – each with their own strengths and weaknesses as far as fields or pulldown detection and removal)

I’d so love to do a shoot out of all these solutions and all the common sources.

But anyway, once again, how good is the 1400’s up-convert? How does it compare?
thanks again

Once I knew everything

[Darius Fisher]

Great answers, Jeremy, Thanks!

I’m mostly really warming to the idea of using the 1400 but … I must reiterate my first question;

1) “How do the results (of the 1400’s hardware upconvert) compare to say the Kona 3, or doing it in an FCP timeline, or with compressor or Teranex or Snell and Wilcox boxes?

You have made it very clear that the 1400 can remove either type of pulldown without a problem which is great!
Also, the aspect ratio, full frame 16:9 issue seems a non-issue, also great.

But for the other methods; i.e.

a) Software or Desktop solutions; FCP/Kona3/Compressor/InstanHD/Magic Bullet/BCC5 Uprez etc., and then

b) dedicated facility based Hardware solutions; i.e.

Teranex; (mini/VC100/300/600) or

Snell and Wilcox’s boxes; (Alchemist Platinum Ph.C, Quasar Ph.C, Ukon)

… I’m mostly concerned about how their upscaling quality compares with the 1400’s (and not so interested in their pulldown removal ability since, as you rightly said, that should be done first using RSFields kit or such like for software solutions,

(Teranex and Snell and Wilcox is a whole ‘nother ball of wax’ – each with their own strengths and weaknesses as far as fields or pulldown detection and removal)

I’d so love to do a shoot out of all these solutions and all the common sources.

But anyway, once again, how good is the 1400’s up-convert? How does it compare?
thanks again

Once I knew everything

[Darius Fisher]

Jeremy,
A very interesting thread. I may be working with James on the above mentioned project. I have some questions regarding what you have recommended that I’d love your thoughts on. In the DV footage dept.; we actually have a mixture of 24p and 24pA. Most of it was also shot with a dvx100/a generated 1.78 letterbox.

Up-conversion using the AJ-HD1400.

I’m very interested in this as I have had good experiences with other decks as far as up conversion (DV to 10 bit SDI) and down conversion, (JH3 from 1080p 23.98 to whatever desired in SD).
My first question is about the 1400’s hardware upconvert;

1) How do the results compare to say the Kona 3, or doing it in an FCP timeline, or with compressor or Teranex?

Hopefully part of the answer to question 1. was that the 1400 upconvert results are better than all the other options mentioned and nearly as good as or better than teranex ?? If so then questions 2 thru 6 are also worth asking. You said that “You can use the 1400 deck to output a 1080psf 23.98 signal from the dv24p material” with the deck in 23/24 mode and “480 out to 1080”, so far so good.

2) How would that work with DVX100/a “in camera letterboxed” DV 24p 4:3 material? Can the 1400 blow up what’s in the letterbox to full frame 16:9 HD 23.98PsF outputting it through HD/SDI?
3) If the answer is yes, then my clip timecode for all the DV 24p material is currently base 30, so to recapture/upconvert, would I create some custom preset with deck control settings at TC base 30 but capturing to 23.98 ?
4) Or does the deck convert the DV timecode to Base 24 such that I have to use cinematools to do a TC30 to TC24 EDL conversion?
5) I am assuming also that the 1400 is able to detect the p/regular 3:2 pulldown cadence and remove it from uncut camera original tapes on the fly as it upconverts?

Since the 1400 manual says that in 23/24 mode the following are among the “permissible playback formats”:
480/23.98p over 59.94i [2:3 mode]
480/23.98p over 59.94i [2:3:3:2 mode]

6) Can it also remove 2:3:3:2 pulldown on the fly (from uncut DVX100/a camera master DV tapes) and upconvert to 23.98PsF 1080p out of the HD/SDI, as well as filling the 1080 frame with what’s within the SD letterbox image?

I would be most grateful for your thoughts, experience and expertise on these questions … and then I might have a few more 🙂
Thanks

Darius Fisher

Once I knew everything