[Ken Pugh]

Thanks Gary. I tried your suggestion, changed settings to Kona LH DV saved project, quit, opened FCP with a new project and digitised – still getting uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2

Confirmed in the digitise tool I had capture input as:

AJA Kona LH: 625 25 DV

Also checked in Audio/Video settings, both the Sequence preset and the Capture preset were set as above.

For good measure saved and quit the project, opened a new project, still the same.

Restarted the computer, opened new project, same problem.

Checked Kona Control Panel – settings are:

SDI in NO VIDEO
ANALOG IN 625i25
REF IN 625i25

Frame buffer 625i25 YUV-8b

OUT 625i25

Primary Native Format 625i25
Secondary Native Format 625i25

Any further ideas much appreciated!

Thanks,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Even more bizarrely – having unplugged the second monitor to get the various fxplugs working, I tried plugging the second monitor back in, and it all still works! So maybe those with second monitor cards may find that having removed the second card to ‘fix’ the problem, it’s safe to plug the second card back in…

Seems this is going to be a tricky bug to fix.

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Having same problem – but have just one video card driving two monitors. Changing the render setting to 8 bit YUV did not work for me, but unplugging the second monitor did.

Strangely the fxplug rendered fine on my old G4 (Dual 1.25 with Radeon 256 card) … but will not render on my brand new Mac Pro.

MacPro 3.2 8 core
8800 video card with 512 Megs ram
2 x 20″ monitors

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Thanks for these two posts – reassuring to know FCP will auto render even real time playback clips on edit to tape (where they have been modified in any way). Good tip about deleting render files. As an extra precaution I’ve taken to exporting and then re-importing the single render to FCP for playout.

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

The Panasonic AJ-HDX400 DVCPRO deck runs the tape at 67.640 mm/s in NTSC and 67.708 mm/s in PAL. The speeds are close, but clearly different, and surprisingly the NTSC is slower, not faster.

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/02products/products/aj-hdx400/aj-hdx400_spec.html

However – A European E120 VHS tape is 570 feet in length and will give 2 hours of playing time on a PAL VCR. The same tape used on an NTSC VCR will give only 1 hour & 26 minutes of play time.

https://www.high-techproductions.com/video1.htm

Another panasonic deck, AG-DV2500 DV Proline VTR, recording in DV mode has these speed differences: 18.812mm/sec.(NTSC), 18.831mm/sec.(PAL)

https://www.adorama.com/PCAGDV2500.html

So it does seem that while NTSC and PAL had big differences in tape speed when recording analogue, ie with BetaSP and VHS, the differences in tape speed are much smaller, practically speaking insignificant, in DV recording (although I’ve not done the maths!).

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

The tape duration, yes.

I believe that although 1 second of PAL = 1 second of NTSC, it takes more tape to play this second, as NTSC contains around 30 frames a second instead of 25. That’s why a 30 minute Beta SP tape is actually 33 minutes in PAL land, but only 30 minutes in NTSC. So yes – you may need 5 tapes instead of 4 if the tapes were full.

Best,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Thanks,

I’ll look in preferences to disable the auto-scaling.

As to the shift fields filter – my media is animation lower field first with matte, my time line is PAL DV25 – also lower field first, so the auto application of shift fields seems unnecessary. As I have so many clips I’ll check the remove atrributes command and see if this works in the browser.

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Star! Thanks – tried so many – but of course not that one…

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Here is a link to the camera’s brochure:

https://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/pdf/sony_pmw-ex1_brochure.pdf

and a review:

https://www.dvuser.co.uk/content.php?CID=171

and on Sony’s website:

https://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=PMW-EX1&site=biz_en_EU&pageType=Overview&imageType=Main&category=XDCAMCamcorders

Yes, it’s a new camera released in a few weeks time, sorry not to make that clear. It only records HD XDCAM. It seems I can edit this in FCP natively without hardware assistance using the 25Mb/s mpeg codec that can be streamed out of the cameras ilink interface (which Sony also refers to as HDV). I was wondering if this could also be used in reverse to monitor in SD as the camera features a component video output. Admitedly for such a new camera there may not be much info available for this – but I assumed if it was possible others may have achieved this with the existing range of xdcam or HDV cameras.

Sony describes the interface as IEEE1394, 4-pin (x 1), HDV stream input/output, S400.

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

I have both a firewire connection to a deck and alternatively a firewire connection to an AJA LA.

Will XDCAM HD mpeg play off a FCP timeline through these outputs?

That would be great – and would convince me to move up from DVCAM to XDCAM HD aquisition.

Thanks,

Ken.