[Dino]

Under Motion tab, Time Remap, turn off frame blending.

[Dino]

When I get the request for an uncompressed files it always sounds like a catch all for, “I don’t know what I want but I want the best, uncompressed, yea, that’s it!”

Within QuickTime there are two good codec choices, None and Animation. None is just what it says it is, no compression, no encoding, just bit for bit, pixel for pixel RGB. Animation can have some compression though it is a true lossless compression.

Delivering either of these will pretty much guarantee absolute compatibility with any package that can read QuickTime, on any platform, going back several versions.

[Dino]

William, wondering if you might have any testing updates for us? Definitely curious as to the experience of using alternate lenses with this camera. Thanks.

[Dino]

Cant recall when specifically it was added (2.5 or later) till 2.8, Media Composer could capture and output DVCProHD over Firewire as well as use media from P2 cards. Realtime playback through hardware would only work at best at the yellow/green timeline quality setting. I imagine the CPU has something to do with what level of playback is possible. As mentioned before, full quality output requires a transcode to a full raster resolution. I believe this is still the case with MC 3.X on non DX hardware.

Using MC 3.X with the newer DX hardware will handle the material properly. There are specific options available in regards to timeline settings. I suggest you research what Avid calls “thin raster support”. Your particular situation will drive how you choose to handle this.

[Dino]

Agreed on the Phantom. Brought to you by one of the Cow’s sponsors, Abel CineTech (though recently acquired by Panavision).

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[Dino]

Have you actually let a capture finish, even just a short test? Do this and see if the resulting file gives you what you what. It is possible that the window on the computer screen would go black to dedicate the processing power required to draw that image to the act of capturing.

[Dino]

Look at that, you give us some information and we can solve your riddle.

DVCProHD sub samples the full raster (Avid calls it thin raster) as part of making HD fit in such a tiny package. That is:
-1280 is re-sampled to only 960
-1920 is re-sampled to only 1280

On systems using Adrenaline hardware it is not possible to play this material out at full resolution. This is also true on a Symphony using the old Nitris hardware. These hardware sets require media at the full raster to deliver full resolution video. Thus the need to transcode to either DNxHD or uncompressed. Systems making use of the new DX hardware do not have this problem. As much as this makes it look like a hardware issue, I believe most of the improvement comes from improvements in the software.

So you see, what you were calling a compatibility issue or problem is actually just a functional limitation. The result may not be the wanted outcome but MC 2.8 is performing exactly as designed.

[Dino]

In Cinema Tools, under File>Export>Converted EDL>…

Better to capture to ProRes than DVCProHD.

[Dino]

No it does not. Digital videotape formats record digital audio. The audio is recorded in much the same way as video (helical scan) so there is no track that is close to the edge of the tape. And being digital, there are no worries about interference from other signals on the tape.

[Dino]

Also, a 1/3″ lens on a 1/2″ chip wont really work.