[Dino]

Wether through Kona, FCP or compressor, there is no “pulldown” being added. All simply repeat frames to get from 24 to 60.

[Dino]

Hey, I made 2 DTRS tapes, last year…

[Dino]

If you want a file, no card or Firewire will help. Export your 24P sequence to a reference file. Bring that in and drop it into a 60P sequence. Export that out and have a nice day.

[Dino]

I’ll guess that the C is the cue track. A 5th track that is actually a low grade linear analog track. Don’t know that many people used it. Might be used to record the intercom in a multi camera studio or truck shoot or perhaps a rough mix if the other channels were left as ISOs. The 500 series HDCam decks have XLR input and output for this channel. It can record as a mix of what is fed into the other tracks depending on the recording device and it’s configuration.

I think your tape is not 23.976P. try playing at an even 24 or 29.97 and see if the audio shows up. That or it has no audio on it.

[Dino]

Firewire out from a 720/24 project is automatically converted to 60P. No card needed. It will be jittery during normal edit operation but is rock solid in edit to tape.

[Dino]

Are you sure that Digital VooDoo did HD?

Regarding the 1.6 G5. That machine was worth less than the dual G4s it was succeeding. You’ll get more power out of the current entry level Mac mini. Sorry.

[Dino]

The uncompressed preset is 720 by 486. DV is 720 by 480. Final Cut will “adjust” 480 material dropped into a 486 timeline. This may be the source of some of your issues with the footage. Look at the motion tab of a clip from the timeline to see what is being done to it.

You mention graphics. Generated in Final Cut or from an external source? If external, they should be sized same as the timeline, either 480 or 486.

I believe you can set uncompressed for 480 (been a while since I’ve dealt with SD in FCP). What you choose really depends on your setup and the destination of the material.

The rule is do what is best for the situation.

[Dino]

I have to chime in here. My suggestion? Something big and bulky with as few features as possible. Something that is awkward to carry, that needs a tripod. Something with XLR and BNC connectors. A Bolex is a chunk of steel. It doesn’t have auto white balance or auto focus or image stabilization. Using that camera is a visceral experience. It’s finicky and noisy. You get what 2 or 3 minutes in a load. You can’t fake your way through it. You have to know what you are doing.

And yes, definitely something that records to tape. Not nearly as much work as film but at least maintains the idea of a physical piece of media. Something that needs to be handled and cataloged and not lost.

I say go with standard definition, DV or DVCam. HDV isn’t hardly HD anyway and using it isn’t going to teach anyone about what happens at a professional level. If you want to teach about formats and frame rates and post procedures, that’s a theory class. My recommended camera would be the JVC GY-DV500 (or its variants). Not a current model anymore but the used market is full of them (for cheap) and the closest you can get to a real manual experience without digging too far back.

Lets face it, three quarters of your students are going to show up with a laptop with editing software and a camcorder that is already as good or better than what you are looking to acquire. They don’t need to learn about using pro-sumer equipment. They need to learn fundamentals. They need to suffer and make mistakes.

And that’s my rant. thank you for listening.

need to purchase new? options.
DV:
Panasonic AG-DVC20
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=98187&catGroupId=14571&surfModel=AG-DVC20
or if you insist on HDV:
Sony HVRHD1000U
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadcastcameras/cat-dvcam/product-HVRHD1000U/
Sony

[Dino]

[Philippe Orlando] “I thought HDCAM was disc, but apparently it’s tape, correct? “

Buddy, please… for the sake of everything that is decent and beautiful in this world, spend 20 minutes with google and wikipedia and educate yourself to some bare minimum before coming here and asking us to chew your food for you. The amount of good, detailed information that is out there is just staggering. Far more useful information out there than the bit squished between all the advertising on the Cow. And don’t do it for me. Oh no, do it for yourself. You wanna know why? I’ll tell you why, chances are the person that answers your question is only slightly less ignorant (or merely slightly more confident) than you and will give you a bad or misleading answer. Now, if that’s what you want, just let me know. I lie real good and I’ll give such misinformation that I wont just ruin your day but your whole month.

Offended? Angry? Good. Now use it. Use that anger, that energy to better yourself. To learn. Go out there on that vast ocean of information we call the internets and track down one of the 47,000 easy to find websites that describes all the various video standards and tape formats and read and look and remember and read more and then forget a little bit of it but come back the next day and read some more and download some pictures (but not those pictures) and so on…

I mean it, go!

[Dino]

A little late to this but…

Inconsistencies or issues between the Macintosh OS and the Windows OS are what they are wether or not an Avid product is involved. The media and project files generated by Media Composer/ Symphony have been OS independent for as long as the software could run on both platforms.