[Jeff Carson]

You will not see the slomo in camera or even on the playback of the 1200A deck. The easiest way to play back the slomo is to actually capture from the 1200A (firewire) using DVCPro-HD 24p and then download and use the Frame Converter tool which (after installation) appears under TOOLS menu. This renders and imports into FCP a new clip (w/o time code) that will play your beautiful slomo at full quality off internal SATA or FW drive. Use a cinema display for monitoring. We shot 60fps and Pro35 with primes and it is silky smooth slomo footage

For more details: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvcpro_hd_workflow_balis.html

Have fun!

[Jeff Carson]

check out:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvcpro_hd_workflow_balis.html

We did this and it worked well, though the converter sometimes refuses to convert and we re-captured again and then it would. A little “klugey”.

[Jeff Carson]

When you squeeze footage, you are in essence trying to squish many scan lines of video into a smaller shape that still produces the original scan frequency. Anything that moves or has diagonal lines will hose you a little. Can you add a slight vertical blur, or create a file sequence with whole frames or something?

[Jeff Carson]

Sounds vaguely like symptoms similar to those caused by consumer mini-DV players. Those can be hard to see at first glance at times.