Graeme Nattress
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I would always recommend the Decklink over anything else out there right now because it works, it’s a professional product, and support is outstanding.
Graeme
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The Cinema Displays are great.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you’re going back to DV, what you’re proposing might even make the image worse. It won’t make it better. To get the benefit of a better codec, you’ve got to be mastering to a higher format than DV, say Digital Betacam.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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PAL is Exactly 25.0000000fps or 50.0000000 fields per second. It uses nice, sensible, integer frame rates.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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That’s a good tip Tom!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I had no luck recording the 720p30 back to the deck either. Have you managed this Tom? I’ve given all the gear back now, but I didn’t have the most pleasant time of it.
One thing I found hard was the “conform” on print to tape, which I had to do time and time again as I was trying to figure out how to go back to the deck – and FCP doesn’t cache this, so every time it failed, I was doing it again. Ouch.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Best not to double post to both the cow and calf.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Thanks Tom. That would certainly help!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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1GB Ram is enough, but obviously, more is nicer. I ran FCP 4.5 on 512MB ram on a G4 iMac ok, and did lots of editing on it, so it can be done.
I don’t know where you’ll find a copy of FCP4.5, and indeed, it might be detrimental to you not to be using the latest version for your work. Does school need to see your timeline or just the final result on tape? Perhaps your school should be pursuaded to upgrade because they can’t expect students to buy software that’s no longer available.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Which video cameras actually record at 24.00, 30.00 or 60.00 fps though?? I’m thinking I remember the original HDCAM having a 24.00 option, but I can’t remember, and I’ve not used a varicam enough to know off the top of my head. Everything affordable always uses the NTSC fractional rates though 🙂 Indeed, I’m sure in the HD specs there’s both integer and NTSC fractional frame rates.
As for audio – audio is audio and doesn’t have a frame rate per se, and only becomes an issue when you’re shooting at non NTSC rates that need to be slowed by 1000/1001 % for monitoring on NTSC monitor, which is most typically when shooting film. If you shoot at say 24.00fps or 23.98fps, it doesn’t matter to your audio, as long as you don’t try to change your 24.00 to play at 23.98 or your 23.98 to play at 24.00.
The whole issue, really though, is a mess. The 1000/1001 fudge factor came about to put colour in NTSC, and has not been relevant for many years as the technology has improved to not need it, and indeed, the advent of digital broadcasting makes nonesense of it. Similarly, 7.5IRE setup was sensibly ditched in Japanese NTSC about 20 years ago, whereas USA and Canada still use it, even though it no longer makes sense. With digital TV, a choice could have been made to ditch the fudge factor, but wasn’t. Of course, it’s rich of me to suggest this being born in a PAL country 🙂
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP