[Ian Grey]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the advice, i’ve just been given access to the deck AJ-HD1400 and Final Cut Studio 2 so im going to digitise the clips and have them as QT files.

Does FCP support the 60hz 720/24p PAL shooting format, i’d imagine it would be. Hopefully I will be able to come over the firewire into the FCP.

Ian

[Ian Grey]

[Ian Grey]

[Gary Adcock]it would be a frame rate conversion to go from 23.98/59.94 on the master to 50i on the DVD

But the tapes aren’t shot at 23.98/59.94 they are shot at true 24fps using the 60hz option on the varicam unless im mis-understanding the way the Varicam records to tape.

Wouldn’t the deck be able to speed up the picture by 4.1x in order to create 25/50 on the output

Ian

[Ian Grey]

Hi Gary,

Thats good to now, we haven’t tried it yet but I read that information in this leaflet from Panasonic

https://panasonic-broadcast.com/download/AJ-HD1400-leaflet-11807.pdf

So you would be able to output via the composite outputs to DVD in colour and have them play on PAL tv’s?

Ian

[Ian Grey]

Hi John thank you for your reply.

I was hoping you could do something like this with the deck. But according to the compatability leaflet I read from Panasonic doesn’t the picture come out as monochrome (no sync on SDI) when coming out of composite downconverted when the media is recorded as 720/24p over 60p?

Ian

[Ian Grey]

This is why I was confused as I have come across this on the web. Some people say it works and some people say I doesn’t

Gary have you succesfully output 60hz via firewire yourself?

Ian