[Jonathan White]

Yippee, just to answer my own question I needed to set the output to HDTV (not 10 bit pal as I had it),
sudden clarity…

If anyone cares to add further I’m open to learning

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

I’m pretty much ready to purchase an Xdcam ex and then along comes the promise of Scarlet (3K for under $3k!!) which look like it’ll revolutionise the business, but it doesn’t exist and I bet on over a year to wait and I’ve hopefully got a few projects between now and then so I might buy…..

[Jonathan White]

Thanks for your response (I also read your previous post on EX1 setup). I am quite sold on this camera, waiting to hear from commissioning editors and will go ahead with purchase if positive!!

You mention After FX for the 16:9 anamorphic output. I don’t usually use after FX (though if it was going to significantly improve quality I’d buy it). My thoughts were to drop the HD material into a 10bit SD anamorphic timeline and render, any thoughts??
I use a Blackmagic Decklink Extreme (SD) for SDI output though I wouldn’t use this for downconvert…

I would imagine a lot of programme makers are going through this at the moment as I don’t see hi-def broadcasting taking off in Ireland for quite a while.

Thanks again.

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

Sounds fabulous, does this mean I can capture HDV from my Sony 1080i50 to pro res and edit, could someone give me a step by step workflow as I get confused with the easy setups, I can’t seem to duplicate or edit the HDV – Pro res easy setup (which seems to be set to 1080p24????

Thanks,

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

Probably wise not to upgrade while using editors, I have looks (which is absolutely fantastic) but went back to a project which I’d used editors extensively in, 95% ok but some shots came up with the logo on (as if using demo) and I had trouble with the misfire vignette.
Maybe not related but not worth the risk….

[Jonathan White]

This is probably of no use but might be related, I recently upgraded to the latest Magic Bullet and an old project which used the misfire vignette gave a big red render error similar to the one you’re getting. I had to remove the old vignette and replace it with one in the new Magic Bullet. No playback issues though, possibly co-incidence…

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

What I meant was it’s now available to buy, or has it always been up???? by the way I’m having problems entering my serial….

[Jonathan White]

Am I wrong in my previous post? you won’t get audio into the xlr without feeding some dummy video at the same time…. maybe I’m misunderstanding your problem??

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

From my experience it will work but you need to have a video feed at the same time (I think it converts everything to SDI and needs both).

I was told I could loop the decklink video out into the in to do this, but what I did was just fed a vhs into the composite in.

The video isn’t digitised but you get your audio.

Hope this helps.

Johnny

[Jonathan White]

Thanks,

I’ll check the field dominance in the sequence settings. I tried all varietys of the shift field filter. Can you make the DV slowmo without getting crazy strobing???

Thanks,

Johnny