[Katterfelto]

But why does it appear squeezed? I’ve tweaked every playback setting I can find, and I get nothing.

Thanks, Walter…

Jack
(‘s brain hurts)

🙂

[Katterfelto]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Still having no luck at 4:45 a.m. Tried Compressor, but the same thing happened: the frame ratio kept switching from 1440 to 1280.

Have spent the last two days (and numerous phone calls) trying to get the Kona 3 card to capture SDI into 1080i, but no cigar.

I am so not having fun.

Thx,

Jack

[Katterfelto]

Lord, I wish I could, Walter. That would make it so much simpler.

The problem is that we’re trying to use two different kinds of source material in the same project: HDV and Digibeta. We used a camera and firewire to capture the HDV material; we’ll be using a Kona 3 card to capture the Digibeta clips in 1080i.

Tech support suggested the best way to resolve the two-format problem would be to capture or convert both sets of source material to DVCPro. Seemed like a logical solution. Had I known this at the outset, I would have originally captured all of the HDV material in DVCPro format, as you suggested. Still, I didn’t think there’d be a problem converting the HDV to DVCPro in-program. According to the manuals, Media Manager is supposed to be able to do the recompression without altering the frame ratio. (Unfortunately, it did alter the ratio: the recompressed clips look like one of those Cinemascope title sequences, squeezed for TV.)

So, that’s my dilemma. We can’t use HDV because we’re incorporating Digibeta, so we have to convert both formats to something that’s mutually compatible.

If I have to recapture all of the orginal HDV clips I will, but please tell me there’s another way..?

Kindest thanks for your help,

– Jack –

[Katterfelto]

Thanks for the reply!

The problem is, I have about 60 hours’ worth of HDV clips that have already been captured and organized into bins in Final Cut. Took about a week. Aside from having to start from scratch and recapture all of the original media through the Kona card, is there any workable way to convert the HDV clips to DVCPRO, in-program?

Thanks much,

Jack