[Jay Kuntz]

Jeremy,
My Varicam is the F tape
As an independent I shoot for a wide variety of clients both FCP and Avid. Unfortunately I usually have little or no interaction with post…just the producers. However, I always keep the editors in mind.
Basically, I am looking at the 240 to extend the life of my Varicam and also allow me to provide whatever codec, rate and resolution producers want. My concern is from the comment of an associate that pro res is noisy when compaired to XDCam 422. So many options, so many opinions. Do you have any direct experience with any files from a 240?

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[Jay Kuntz]

The cameras I own and want to use the PIX on are A Panasonic Varicam and a Sony PDW700

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[Jay Kuntz]

The earlier advice seemed to work and all seems to be working fine.

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THANK YOU!!!

I do not visit the Cow often, but when I do I get GREAT info. If only the rest of the internet would work this way.

J
just added a photo for ID…I am the one on the right

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[Jay Kuntz]

Good idea to download newest version…I think.
Loading update went smooth, but in the SONY XDCAM TRANSFER SET UP window it showed that I was missing XDCAM EX codec and XDCAN HD422 codec.
I was able to access the disc via fw on the cam but it only shows proxys and on each clip is NO CODEC.
Do I need to get the HD422 and EX codecs from somewhere else?
Is this a setting on the install I overlooked?
I want the clips as QT files right?

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[Jay Kuntz]

Jeremy,
I thought it would likely be the deck.
None of the settings jump out as to where except the 894 895 and 896. They seem to determine DVI out but had no impact when I reset 25m dif out to DV.

Does Panny hav any sort of tech support bog or phone?
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[Jay Kuntz]

Walter
Did not buy from TBS. If memory serves me correct, they didn’t respond to my end of year e-mail request for pricing and delivery. As far as mark-up…it is part of business and as long as brokers, distributors and engineering sales people are honest and fair, my thoughts on fair is 12%, I will continue to deal with good reps who do what they say they are going to do.

Good info on the Kona but since I am more of a DP, the budget for a Kona is non-existant. I want to use the 1200a F-wire as the I/O and also use the 1200a as an EE loop to a Dell WS. Hope,the hd/ddi out from deck, thru aja converter to dvi, is an ee signal brought back into deck via F/W as it is using the GV-D900.

Can I quote you on 59.94
I have worked for an unnamed producer that wanted footage shot at 59.48 and it took a few anxious moments to determine that indeed they wanted an off rate of 48fps from the Varicam. I had him call his editor and the frame rate number got put into “Yes 59.94 at 48fps Not 59.48”

Not looking to do any slo-mo capture, I want to use FCP as a frame rate converter so that the flagged frames recorded on the Varicam are, imported or converted via tools once I get the footage, into my system. Want playback as I shot it be that 12fps or 44fps.

Slo-mo….well thats a whole ‘nuther story in my career.

OBTW Food Net is a part of the quality programming avail. Always a pleasure for the family to take a look at whats on TFN.

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[Jay Kuntz]

Thanks
Easy enough

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[Jay Kuntz]

What looks good and how do you make pictures people/clients like? It is indeed subjective.
Using a promist gives a look, one I usually like, that can’t be easily eliminated in post. On the other hand, a non-filtered image can be modified in post to give it a promist look.
In hind site, without a specific request for a promist by the director/client I would let the “filtering be done in post”. This may seem to some like a cope out…fix in in the edit…but in reality that is where a consistant look is controlled.
Saying that softlight should not be used in HD…well if someone says something like that, I would have to really question their ability to really articulate what they want or even what they see.
Fads, jargon and buzzwords make understanding each other harder when talking about making nice images.
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I opened the Rasterized Generic EPS file, which was in RGB mode and then saved it as a photoshop file…all of that was done in Photoshop. I then imported it into FCP. Also a better way to describe the movement within the image is “ringing”

Any ideas???

J