[Jason Starr]

But is the HVX200 providing a full 1080? How does the camcorder get from the native 720p to 1080i?

[Jason Starr]

Thank you all so much for your help! It is working! John Sharaf’s suggestion almost did the trick for me. I needed to make one additional change to his suggestions and also (at setting 023 on the 1200A) I needed to move HD_LP to DV. I am posting the settings that work for me below for anyone else who confronts this issue. This experience has been a great example of how professionals help eachother. I am grateful. Good karma to each of you!

On FCP:
Easy setup for DV NTSC 48 kHz

On Panasonic 1200A:
025 (0004) 25 SD
023 (0005) DV
630 (0000)
632 (0001)
880 (0000)100 Mbs
894 (0002) DV
896 (0000) DVCPRO

[Jason Starr]

Thank you John. I changed the settings but alas. The same problem remains. Any other tips or setting suggestions?

[Jason Starr]

Thanks for your suggestion Shane but it did not work. Capture window still shows: Preview Disabled. While FCP controls the deck and sent it into capture mode, it never stops. Eventually I have to hit escape and have no video captured.

There are two reasons I would like to convert to DV for the offline. 1-To save drive space. This is a feature documentary with over thirty hours of interview material and probably another twenty of b-roll and other elements. 2-I have a production assistant writing transcripts with time code notes. I give the assistant a firewire drive packed with interviews and she takes them home to work on. While DVCPRO HD files are not enormous, they take up a lot more drive space than DV and require more processing power than I can expect from my assistant’s old laptop.

The issue of converting 60 frame material to a format such as DV that uses 30 frames is something I have never had to deal with before.

[Jason Starr]

Yes, I have all that (AJA Kona LHe out to a Sony HD CRT) but the monitor still shows an unusable picture. I must be doing something wrong in the process. Did I leave a step out? The 720p60 material looks fine as does the 1080i. It is just when I view 24p (in either 1080 or 720) that I have this strobe during movement.

[Jason Starr]

Thank you Shane. I actually already saw your valuable tutorial and have managed to get as far as your lesson took me. But after getting the media into the system I have the problem of using 24 frame video. I have no experience with pull downs or anything else of that sort. I tried on my own by changing the easy setup to 720p24 and by changing the editing timebase in a 720p60 sequence to 23.98 and 24. But these changes have not fixed the strobed quality of motion that is way beyond what one is accustomed to see in film. I must be doing something wrong, or perhaps not doing something very basic right.