Don Greening
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Just so that you’re aware, the PDW700 doesn’t carry the CineAlta logo, so it doesn’t do 24p. I know, I know…….It was designed with ENG work in mind.
– Don
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Yes. The SDI port carries embedded audio that streams merrily along with the video.
– Don
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[Dan Powers] “Thanks for the input. “
Actually, I want to thank you for the heads up regarding the SP mode and the interlacing thing. Good luck with your edit, Dan.
– Don
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[Dan Powers] “Now how the heck do you scale down 1080i and have it look decent in SD?
Interlaced fields suck when scaled.”I’ve always shot HQ 1080p 30 except for one time when I wanted to match other Mini DV cameras shooting interlaced. My 1080p footage sure looks like progressive to me with one complete picture per frame and that 1080i footage sure did look different with 2 distinct fields visible.
Since your profile says you have a G5 I’m assuming you’re using Final Cut Pro? If you want to edit using your delivery format I would suggest creating a progressive DVCPRO 50 Anamorphic timeline. If you look at the clip properties in the browser the field order of each media file should be set to “none”. If they aren’t you can right or control click in the field order box and choose “none” from the pop-up.
If you have FCP 6 you may want to consider editing in a Pro Res HQ progressive timeline. You can even edit in the native EX codec and set your renders to use Pro Res.
Drag your clips into the sequence and edit away. All my standard def EX down converts have been edited in a DV NTSC timeline to match my other cameras and the footage looks very good. No interlacing issues.
If you’re editing in Premiere Pro then you’ll have to wait for another reply and this tape will self-destruct in 15 seconds 🙂
– Don
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Hi Kurt,
The red flag that popped up for me when I read your original post was that when you pulled that card out and then pushed it back into the camera it did record your test clip okay. This leads me to believe that perhaps the card was not seated in the camera properly in the first place. Just a thought. (But then, why wouldn’t the camera tell you that the card wasn’t seated properly?) My camera has, in the past, prompted me to re-seat a card.
Anyway, you may want to return that card to your dealer and ask for a replacement just to be on the safe side. One way to confirm that you’ve actually recorded a clip is to hit the review button on the hand grip. The default setting is to play back the last 3 seconds of the most recently recorded clip. This is one way of knowing immediately if the clip was recorded properly.
As I’ve said before, I have had no issues at all with cards losing media files. Maybe I’ve just been lucky so far. When I insert an empty card into my camera and if time permits, I hit record for a second or two, just to make sure everything’s working.
– Don
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Typically, the backfocus adjustment on fixed Canon lenses like the A1 is a done electronically as opposed to a mechanical adjustment. If you think you have a backfocus issue with your camera your only option is to send it to Canon repair. They will mount the camera on a machine made for this purpose and do it right.
– Don
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Kurt,
Sorry it didn’t work out. This is new and uncharted territory for all of us, so I really don’t know what else to suggest. Perhaps a media retrieval program similar to what’s out there for hard drives or digital still camera flash cards.
One thing I forgot to ask you yesterday is that when you transfered the media from the problem card to the hard drive was there only one media file transfered? Typically, if a 16 Gbyte card is almost full there should be 14 or 15 Gbytes of copied media, whereas a single file would be only a fraction of that.
– Don
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Hi,
First of all you gotta love that sense of humour of yours. I don’t think I’d be much fun to be around if I was in your situation.
Regarding the card issue. I think what you want to do is force your camera to do the “restore media” routine. Restoring the media is only supposed to rebuild the directory on the card and doesn’t touch the actual media. This way orphaned .mp4 files can be copied back to an empty card in the EX and the camera will rebuild the card’s directory allowing orphaned media files to become “un-orphaned.” as it were.
So copy the problem card’s BPAV folder to a hard drive. Don’t delete anything off the problem card. Put an empty card of the same capacity into the EX. Make sure that empty card’s icon is on your desktop. Drag your copied BPAV folder back to the empty card. Eject the card/camera from your desktop. Hopefully your EX will now prompt you to restore the card. Click “execute”.
I’ve never had a lost clip issue with any of my cards so this is just a “try this and see if it works for you.”
Best of luck.
– Don
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I think your original question was that DVDSP doesn’t want 4:3 and 16:9 on the same track. This is correct. You can’t drag a full screen movie into the same track with a widescreen movie and expect DVDSP to display both with the proper aspect on the TV or whatever. So the workaround is to create a widescreen sequence in FCP and insert the the full screen stuff into it. It’s that one sequence that gets exported and eventually ends up in DVDSP. Set the DVD play to widescreen and everything will look right as rain. I probably didn’t make that very clear from the start, so……there it is 🙂
– Don
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[Victoria Murphy] “You are the Man!”
Hear that, David? Now, no more whining about being dropped like yesterday’s news *grin*
– Don