Jay Chance
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Try setting FCPs playback under “View” …”Video Playback” to AJA Kona 1080i29.97 8bit (1920×1080)…
I believe it defaults to 10 bit… I’ve had better luck with it set to 8 bit for a monitor playback. -
I just recently started working with the XDCAM HD and have used it both thru firewire and ingesting it HDSDI. Either way it works really well with FCP. Beware, that if you use AE very much the native XDCAM HD codec (at least the 35mbs codec, which is what I’m shooting with) does not render out in AE. This I learned the hard way after I cut a project and wanted to do some effects in AE. Even if you render it out using any other codec, (animation, etc.) there is degregation in the render. It did work well as an offline. Then I re-digitized just the stuff on the FCP timeline using the DVCPRO HD codec.
The only problem I’m having now is a gamma shift in the AE renders (which seems to be a problem in another more recent post with others). It appears this might be a YUV to RGB issue… Hopefully either Quicktime or Kona will solve this problem… For now I’m compensating for it with an adjustment layer to bring the gamma shift back down… I hope this helps in planning your workflow.
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I’m comparing the rendered footage on the same FCP timeline. By comparing the video tracks by turning them on and off, the scopes on FCP show the jump in the black level or gamma
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Yeah, I figured out the hard way that it doesn’t work. Basically, I’m using the XDCAM files as off-line, and now I’m re-capturing the footage on the timeline with the DVCPRO HD 1080 codec which seems to be working smoothly so far. Hopefully Apple and Sony will solve the problem soon because it’s a pretty good workflow except that it doesn’t work with AE.
But, I do have another problem…After I render in AE with the DVCPRO HD codec, the black levels, or gamma, jump up about 7.5 ire or so… Anybody having this problem?
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I almost had it working using the analog component out of an HDV deck into a Kona LHe card…but I was dropping frames on the capture….I’ve got an email into AJA support on this issue. Here is a link to a white paper from AJA on using HDV footage.
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As far as a work flow, if you need to do some compositing in lets say After Effects… Does the XDcam codec hold up to re-rendering? We are also working in FCP and I don’t want to shoot at the 25mb option. We are planning on buying the Sony 350 and I was told that they would have a solution for the HQ mode (35mb) and FCP in the near future. For now I was planning on bringing the footage in through our Kona LHe card and working in 8bit uncompressed for now. But, I’m curious if anybody has done any compositing with the Sony codec.
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Just for the record the 350 does have a composite out for monitors… I have a demo of the 350 in my possesion… Great Camera all around…
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I have a rather large edit bay and I have 3 total monitors. I’ve got the a Sony PVM20M4U for SD component and HD downconverted monitoring. I also have for a client monitor a Sony KD-34XBR960 34″ Wega monitor that looks really great for HD with an SDI to HDMI converter (costs about $2000 at Circuit City or Good Guys). It also has standard component inputs for SD and looks pretty good. And a third monitor I have on another client desk is the KLV-23M1 Wega LCD monitor which looks really nice in HD (it has HDMI and component inputs and is 16:9). They all match pretty well as far as color and skin tones. I’ve always preferred CRTs v. LCD or Plasmas personally.