Jesse Rosen
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It does — just like the Varicam.
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Jesse Rosen
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We have a Mac program for this here:
https://www.abelcine.com/static/files/SceneFile_Composer_v1.0.dmg.zip
(Or, just open the file in a text editor and change the “F” in line 2 to an “H”. Yes, that is the only difference when converting in this direction).
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Jesse Rosen
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This sounds like there might have been some miscommunication going on (speaking for Abel, here).
The 1200a decks do indeed play 9 micron tapes. What we have seen, however, is that some 1200a decks have alignment issues playing back HDX900 tapes (shows up as concealment errors). We’ve seen this on about half a dozen decks, including 2 from our rental inventory. There are a lot of 1200a decks out there that are getting on in years, and have never been used to play back 9 micron footage before (except for what was recorded in the same deck), so I think what we are seeing really is a lot of decks that are overdue for maintenance, not a general incompatibility. Since we’ve seen it so many times, someone probably mentioned that we would like to double-check your deck.
When properly aligned the deck will work fine for both 18 and 9 micron tapes.
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Jesse Rosen
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Double check the Capture Settings in final cut are set to the same format as the clip (e.g. DVCPRO HD/24P). It seems strange that this should matter, but apparently it does.
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Jesse Rosen
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There is a driver on a CD included with the camera that alows the card to mount on a Powerbook just like a drive. The cards are formatted as FAT32 by the camera or other P2 device, and this works in both Macs and PCs.
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Jesse Rosen
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If you can’t change it when over bars, check in the VTR Menu:TC/UB:UB MODE that UB MODE is set to USER.
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Jesse Rosen
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I’m assuming you’re capturing as DV through firewire directly our of the 1200A deck, no?
Check menu item 899 – DIF SUPER. It should be set to 0000 (Off). By default it is set to 0001 (On).
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Jesse Rosen
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While recording picture, all of the User Bits are used for meta-data. Starting from the last digit, there is the flag for active frames (the two lowest bits contain a mask for a pair of frames), the next shows original camera frequency (6 for 60Hz, 5 for 59.94), the next two have the frame rate, and finally the first four digits are a frame counter from the beginning of the current shot (counting only active frames).
The only time when you have some control over UB is over bars — you can use the first 4 (or is it 6?) digits.
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Jesse Rosen
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I’m not aware of any plug-in for FCP that let’s you load LUTs. Really FCP just isn’t built that way — there’s no concept of a monitoring LUT — you’re pretty much working in one (video) color space. I’m not sure what exactly you’re trying to do, but probably you’ll want to stick with off-line in FCP and do your effects in Shake or AE (which both support LUTs) or different CC solution.
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Jesse Rosen
Director of Technical Development
Abel Cine Tech, Inc.