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Rafael,
When you go into Compressor with your XDCAM EX1 footage, what setting do you choose in Compressor?

The only setting I can find is “XDCAM HD 1080p”
I can’t find a setting for XDCAM EX.

Thanks

Not bald yet.

Mike G

[Gnostic]

What can I say Rafael,

“Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.”
…Belgian Proverb

Mike G

[Gnostic]

Hi David,
The 1440 change occurred when I imported it into a FCP project.

This is what came off the SXS card:
Pixels…………..Square Pixels
Frame Size……1920 x1080i 60 (35 Mb/s) VBR
Codecs…………MPEG-2 Video, Linear PCM, Time Code

This is also what is on the media drive directly out of Compressor.

BTW, this reminds me of a situation I investigated a few months back in which I had to force Compressor to create frames properly when it misinterpreted a client’s video source. In some cases you can’t simply rely on Compressor’s “automatic” interpretation of the source media, and you have to set the geometry manually in the geometry tab with the precise specs you require. That may be the case in your situation.

Thanks, David, this is extremely helpful. I think this explains everything.

Mike G

[Gnostic]

Mixing XCAM EX 1440p with other clips on the timeline is impractical.

A 10 second clip takes one minute to render when it is just put on a timeline with 1920p clips. This is a long form doc. and doing anything, dissolves, color correction, etc. would take way too long.

Can’t find any forum, or info as to why when designated 1920 in Compressor, it shows as such in the media drive and then it changes to 1440 when I import it into FCP.

Apparently there is no way to convert interlaced footage to progressive in Compressor.

Mike G

Mike G

[Gnostic]

I discovered that the XDCAM EX 1R camera will record a 1080X1440 signal at three different frame rates (24P, 30P, 60i) but that is only an option. It also has the option to record at 1080X1920 (Yes, full raster!) at the same three frame rates and we’re talking here about recording onto the flash media. The difference between the internal flash recording and the output from the HD-SDI output is that the internal recording is an 8 bit 4:2:0 recording and the output from the HD-SDI is a 10 bit 4:2:2 signal that can be recorded onto anything that takes an HD-SDI signal. But to be sure, the internal recording can be set to full raster 1080×1920 and the camera sensors are also full raster 1080X1920.

I believe that the problem of the 1920 clips from Compressor, reverting to 1440 when importing into our FCP project, is with Compressor. There is no XDCAM EX choice in Compressor. Instead, it gives one choice with two lines as:
XDCAM 1080P 30_35vbr (and under that is:)
XDCAM HD 1080P with 48 kHz stereo audio

These two lines represent one choice and it is the closest thing to XDCAM EX that there is. Possibly it is in need of a future upgrade?

Michael G

[Gnostic]

Thanks Jerry,

However, I understand thru the Cow that DV tape is only physically good for 5 to 10 years and LTO tape will hold together for 50.
This is the first job we’ve done that requires a very long term archive of all the source material, since it documents the construction of the Walkway Over the Hudson which is now a state park and the people will treat this video as an historical resource.
I’m afraid I may have to capture the 49 hours of HDV tape to a hard drive after all, and then put the stuff on LTO tape. I was trying to avoid that.
Another caveat: I hear some bad things about LTO tape also.

Oh well,

Michael G

[Gnostic]

Hi,
I have to archive 49 one-hour HDV tapes.
Over the last year, we videotaped the construction of the Walkway Over the Hudson and the client simply wants a backup of the tapes for use as long as possible (years) for several different historical uses.
I don’t have the original captured tapes done for the project, just the tapes themselves.
What is the cheapest and most efficient way to do it?

Thanks,

Michael G

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David,
When I had was having dropped frame, i was going across some Boris text which was over picture and some of the picture had earlier been shifted. Somewhere in the distant past, I believe I had read that Boris had caused some problems. However, it was a Boris crawl according to my memory. Has anyone had a problem with Boris? This is my latest suspicion re: dropped frames with a fast computer and super fast raid drives.

Michael G

[Gnostic]

Hi David,
thanks for the response,
Yes, I had done Repair Permissions in Disk Utility it with the OS disk and the CalDigit.

Michael G

[Gnostic]

Hi,
RE: Upconversion:
“Get an AJA Kona 3 and upcovert all your SD material to match the frame size / frame rate of the HD material. We do this all the time. It’s incredibly easy and clean.” – (Music to my ears.)

We’re shooting HDV and mixing DVCam, thru an HVR 1500a deck > AJAioHD > Mac Pro. (All with SDI.)
When I’m up converting from DVCam the only FCP setting I change is the Input of Capture Preset, which changes the Primary setting of the AJA. All the other settings are left as ProRes 108i 29.97, etc. The timeline plays fine,but it has to be rendered (the green render line.) And when playing a source clip in the viewer, the BT-LH 1700 Panasonic monitor gets a colorful band of distortion across the lower quarter, and everyone is fat.

Since you can’t accurately batch capture HDV, We want to capture everything as Pro Res 1080i 29.97, and the down conversion works beautifully, giving us both SD and HD. But the up conversion…….

Thanks,

Michael G