[Graeme Nattress]

You can monitor back through the camera and out component HD into the Dell monitor. No need for a HD card at all. Similarly, the Decklink HD, if you do use one, has comnponent HD output which would go into the Dell. I use a 23″ Apple, so I use the HDlink. The other adv of the HDlink is the control panel for calibration. But it’s not necessary with the HVX200, nor is the Decklink.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Certain frames get “flagged” on capture for later easy removal. That’s why removing adv pulldown is easy!

These flags don’t travel over SDI – and hence you can no longer use adv pulldown removal, and then, bang, there goes your ease of use.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_investigation_nattress.html

Explains what happens when you go over SDI. I’m reckoning it’s much easier and quicker to add a quick chroma smoothing filter and re-render in a uncompressed timeline than re-capture everything.

I don’t deny that SDI can produce nice results, but you’ve got to know WHY is does so, and how you can achieve equally as good results via FW and a free plugin that comes with FCP (or even better results with some of my proprietary stuff).

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

I’d love to agree with you, but that’s not what we saw when actually performing a controlled experiment as outlined:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_investigation_nattress.html

Once you smooth the chroma the results of FW v SDI are so practically identical as to make no odds, and one was not visibly superior than the other in any way.

However, if you wish to provide a counter example…..

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Simple answer is don’t capture over SDI. I don’t see what earthly benefit you’ll gain from it. If you’re worried about the chroma, you can do better in post than the SDI can do and avoid recapture hassles, because as soon as you try to go over SDI you’ve lost your flags and you’re going to have a hell of a time mucking around removing pulldown.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Super. This kind of stuff fascinates me.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Walter, can you send me some footage that exhibits this problem, and the uncompressed version that does not, so that I can do some investigations.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

You can try G DVNR in my Set 1 at http://www.nattress.com – the filter is too complex in this version, but might work for you. I’m spliting it into easier to use, simpler plugins at the moment for the next release.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

If you make a new video track, and put the video above itself, you can do all these kinds of tricks. If you blur the top layer with the blur filter, all you have to do now is cut a hole in the top layer to show through to the bottom layer – the garbage matte will do this for you.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Yes, you’re going to have problems.

The Fx1 doesn’t shoot 24p for starters. You’ll have to convert the 60i (or 50i if you’re shooting PAL) video over.

What I’d do is convert the footage, and do so in an uncompressed environment as HDV footage is already too compressed and doesn’t take lightly to further compression. I might even dub it back to HDCAM as then you can take it back into FCP with your DVCproHD codec for offline and conform back to uncompressed at the end on an online suite, or if that’s not how you’re working, I’d be editing the project uncompressed to preserve the fragile HDV.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

That’s only if you put DV footage on a uncompressed timeline, and indeed, FCP seems to get it right these days, and even flips field order if need be. If you just change the codec, not the frame size, you should be able to play out over SDI without fiddling at all.

Graeme

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