[David Battistella]

When capturing footage for offline, what is the suggested codec(s) when working with footage from both DVCPro and DVCPro HD sources?
EITHER DOWNCONVERT THE HD or UPCONVERT THE DVCPRO. I WOuld upconvert and then cut. You could conform this way but only if you want to doa 10 bit uncompressed timeline. This is only a benifit if it is an FX intensive show. otherwise you are taking footage that is 8 bit with 5.5mbsec data rates to a 10 bit 165MBS data rate. There will be no more information by doing this. You are just preserving what is there. You also loose the use of FCP’s built in Frame rate converter once you capture anything but firewire. So you will have to deal with ny speed shots (varicam) seperately.

Is firewire the best way to capture?
You, if you have the 1200A deck you can convert all of the DVCPRO to DVCPROHD ON THE FLY

During the edit, will both DVCPro and DVCPro HD footage live together in the same timeline?
NO. FINAL CUT PRO DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS. Also, you would be mixing SD and HD resolutions.

Our current system is a G5 with a Kona2, is anything other hardware necessary other than a AJ HD1700 deck for capturing and laying back to tape?

NOPE

[David Battistella]

If your footage is DV then it really does not get better if you capture it uncompressed.

Uncompressed requires much faster drives as the data rates are about 6 times that of DV (DV =38mbs vs. Uncompressed 27mbs)

So you should have at least a firewire 800 raid or a SATA raid for uncompressed but you will not be gaining qualtity, just preserving it if you plan to do a lot of rendering.

Recap.

Uncompressed needs six times the drive space
It does not increase quality.
DV is DV

David

[David Battistella]

I thought so, but I was hoping it was a last minute surprise.

David

🙂

[David Battistella]

Reading the release notes it Apple seems to be suggesting that the camera records or at least plays back DV 50.

Here is the quote from the FCP release notes I am talking about. Do they just have it wrong?

Note:
If you use the camcorder to shoot on DV or DVCPRO tape, Final Cut Pro can
access the camcorder using FireWire device control, as is done with any other DV
camcorders and decks. This tape-based method is limited to DV-25 and DV-50 formats.

[David Battistella]

THis is a nice less expensive and fairly lightwieght solution as well.

https://www.mvsvideo.co.uk/equipment_formatt.htm

David

[David Battistella]

The software based one that I love is Natress Stanards conversion.

https://www.nattress.com/standardsConversion.htm

Used these very recently on NTSC to PAL DVD’s with very excellent results.

david

[David Battistella]

Hi,

Sorry. The Ross product is going to be released at NAB of this year. My mistake. So Terranex is the way to go.

David

[David Battistella]

I really like the versatility and performance ofthe DVCPRO50 codec. It is also very space efficient. I use it in NTSC all the time and when I am mixing Betacam SP and DV footage.

David

[David Battistella]

Gary,

These Ross productts are hardware based converters with proprietary algorythms.

This is a Canadian company and is pretty well respect for their products.

this was the link that I should have pasted

https://www.rossvideo.com/rossgear/rossgear_md/rossgear_md_conversion.html

Which is the link to a new multilink converter (very recently released), It has a host of very useful features including 59.94 to 23.98 hardware conversion including audio.

David

[David Battistella]

Since the Koan does not have analog inputs I would have to sasy that the best thing you could do is capturethe native HDV stream and then convert all of the clips to DVCPRO codec.

David

see this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=83&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/battistella_david/recapturing_HDV/index.html