[John Major]

Thanks Walter. I kinda figured you’d have an answer. After reading your suggestion, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. As for the terminology, I’m well aware. Just not thinking when I was writing. My apologies!

Thank you very much for the help.

~John

[John Major]

I’m importing from a JVC BR-HD50 deck, converting the HDMI out to HD-SDI through a convergent designs MI box, and into the mac via a AJA Kona LHe card. The footage is 720p 24 and imported using the Panasonic DVCPRO-HD 720p 59.98 codec.
The person that logged the footage didn’t know to turn off audio channels 3 thru 8 when logging. Now we simply want to change that setting.

Thanks, John

[John Major]

Well… Going in analog component was going to be what we were going to do. I guess I figured for $600 bucks I might as well use the HDMI out of the deck and use the HD-SDI into the LHe. Plus it frees up the analog inputs for other things.
If you have any thoughts on a better way, I’m all ears. As I make the switch to the 720 world, I’m definitely looking for any input that will help in developing the best set-up.

Thanks, John

[John Major]

Thanks for the reply Walter. Have you worked much with the Apple ProRes much? How would that compare with the DVCPro HD?

[John Major]

Thanks for the clarification Mike. I appreciate your input.

[John Major]

The JVC to MI works great. Just like you said, the footage is awesome. As for the BR-HD50u, the JVC tech on the phone said… It will output 1080i, just not play it. What?? I said it lists 1080i on the output specks of the deck right on their website. He said “Like I said… it outputs 1080i, it just won’t play it back from tape.” So what is the point? Does anyone understand the difference, or better yet, the purpose??

Other then this, the deck has been outstanding. And this really isn’t a rip on the deck, I didn’t but the deck to do this I just don’t understand what the deal is with it. As you said Michael, it really is to bad how many flavors of HDV there are.

Thanks, John

[John Major]

Thanks Michael. I have a convergent designs HD-Connect MI for my br-hd50 deck using the HDMI out of the deck into the HD-Connect MI. But I believe You’re right that need the SI to pull straight from the Sony camera via firewire and convert to HD-SDI. Oh well.

Thanks.

[John Major]

Hey thats for the reply. I’ll check it out.

[John Major]

One addition… I’m monitoring out of the analog out to a 720p hd lcd.

Thanks Again,
John Major

[John Major]

Thanks for the input guys. BTW: Yes… I’m shooting “Film”