[Gary Adcock]

[Shane Ross] “DCVPRO HD is an 8-bit codec…but as I said, they might have captured it as uncompressed HD.”

all “shot in camera” tape formats are 8bit.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Joni Church] ” So I captured the footage into FCP at 720p 59.94, planning to use the Frame Rate Converter to change it to 29.97 (my final output is an NTSC Beta SX). However, once I run the conversion, the audio is gone. Is that normal? Should I be able to do this conversion with audio?”

Nope
the FRC will strip all of the audio except when working converting to 23.98.
the hardware FRC often does the same thing.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Chris Monette] “I can’t seem to get the VO tool to work since installing the AJA Io BOB. With the VO tool open, I select Pro Io as the source and it says that it is in use by another program and reverts back to default setting. After that I close the VO tool, and I lose audio playback entirely.”

Check the Io control panel,
it may be that you are asking it to do something different than it is set to be doing in the driver (like wrong input passthru)

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

Your welcome Rick

thanks for getting thru ATF’s security to join us.

gary

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Graeme Nattress] “DVCProHD is a very lossy codec. It’s much more compressed than DV on a compression per pixel basis, and indeed, looks more compressed than DV when you look at it closely.”

I had to do a little research but the numbers support something else;

HDCAM is 1440 x 1080 (Y) and 480 x 1080 (R-Y/B-Y) @ 8 bits. Interestingly it is HDCAM that uses uses a form of DV compression!

[ 720p 59.94 / 60.00 ]
The native video raster for 720p (SMPTE296m) is 1280 x 720 for luminance, 640 x 720 for R-Y/B-Y.
The DVCPRO HD CODEC sub-samples this it 960 x 720 (Y) and 480 x 720 for R-Y/B-Y both at 8 bits. It uses Intra-Frame compression.

[1800i 29.97 / 30.00 US / Japan ]
The native video raster for 1080i (SMTE274) is 1920 x 1080 for luminance, 960 x 1080 for R-Y/B-Y.
The DVCPRO HD CODEC sub-samples this it 1280 x 1080 (Y) and 640 x 1080 for R-Y/B-Y both at 8 bits.

The DVCPRO HD CODEC is basically a 100Mb/s 8 bit ENG/EFP CODEC, carefully optimized towards

[Gary Adcock]

[rick McNealy] “we take the DVCPRO HD and dub to HDCAM for use with the DaVinci and then back out to D5”

you do not gain anything by doing this, and in actuality it can muck up the color space when going from the 4:2:2 of the DVCPROHD to the 3:1:1 color space of HDCAM. Your best would be to dub direct to D5 and use that as your master for color correction.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Ernie Santella] “Anybody got a trick or some SW to convert PP to FCP? I can output from PP a QT movie, but it doesn’t show all the created PP EFX. And I know, I can rent a scan-converter, but in my past experience, that only looks so-so.”

buy keynote

it will play out PP files with transitions out to video {and PDF, FLASH and as a Still seq} – and it will keep the content progressive for the best playback from DVD!

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Tim O’Grady] “. Talking strickly specs and presumably the ability to run FCP, the iMac seems to me to be the better machine.”

No
without multiple independent FW ports you will bottle neck your system by only having one FW channel.
no expansion, no portability.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[Darth Mel] “Just read on AJA website that no mention of PCI-X slots is needed for the LS. Can anyone confirm that it will work well on G5s without PCI-X slots”

Yes
the LS {SD only} board will run in a standard PCI 66 slot. -mine currently runs in a DP G4

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Gary Adcock]

[EricHindes] “Is there away to export an HD progressive encode from compressor?”

yes
you need to start with a progressive capture, and without any details thats about all I can help you with.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA