[Marion Laney]

Steve,
Thank you for the clarification. I had been informed with similar info but your concise description of the forces at work are very helpful. Fortunately I will only recycle these on the “Good Eats” series as inhouse backup masters.

Best regards,
Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

WALTER!!!

I was trying to hold onto a couple of “secrets”.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Wayne,
Before HD we used several options. The working Viking oven had a shelf that we could mount a Sony PC 5 and then a PC 105. After moving into the stage and recreating the home set I had a GE oven modified to allow shooting from the rear of the set wall. Then I changed to a PD 150 with the mike holder removed to allow clearance to pass completely through the oven.

Now with the HD complication I use a the Varicam with a 4.7 Canon shooting through the rear of the oven. When the 200 comes out I expext to start using it for these shots. Always a moving target 😉

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Hi Wayne,
Don’t get me wrong, I am sure HDV is perfect for many projects, just not mine. As with some of the methods I have developed to shoot our series for the “network” the decision to avoid HDV was driven from “executive” edicts. I am sure I could have gone onto the chipset outputs (as others have reported) to capture a pre-long GOP output and jury rigged a signal that met the “standards” but I decided to wait until a camera came along that met the specs. In the meantime I have made do with the 100a for small camera cut ins. As always there are multiple ways for delivering the goods. Good shooting!

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Hi Walter,
Thought I would jump in. We looked at HDV for our small camera shots to compliment the Varicam but but for various reasons have decided to stay with upconverts of the 100a with an anamorphic until the 200 is available. Still waiting and hoping it will arrive soon.

Wayne, glad you enjoy our show. Most of us have been with the show since we began aquiring it on a XL1 (yikes) and we still learn something each day.

Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Brett,
If you find a work around shoot me an email.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Thanks for the thoughts Barry and Graeme on this continually evaling workflow. Like all of you I look forward to having the real item to test an hopefully pass it as an allowed aquisition device.

As always thankd for your observations.
Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Barry,
I have a question about archiving of P2 material.

We produce episodic series television for a multi network corporation.

By contract (and don’t tell me to tell THEM to change the requirements ;-{ ) I am required to have all original elements that are not stills on TC coded TAPE stock.
The 200 P2 camera in DVCPRO100 config is what I need for many B-cam shots but I will need to have all the content and code from the Card dubbed to tape immediately after aquisition. This is unfortunately non-negociable.

So my question is two parts;
1) Is there or will there be a device that I can simply insert the card into which can playout DVCPRO100 via HDSDI or Firewire into a 1200a deck with matching TC??

2) If not and as another option can I get a true DVCPRO100 signal out a HDSDI output opn the camera itself? Of couse the only code I can use here will be generated interally from the 1200a Deck. Firewire is not an option as we send up to 4 ch. of audio to the 1200a separate from the picture. As you know you can bring HDSDI picture into the 1200a deck while adding analog audio concurrently.

3) I know I said 2 questions, The worse case for me would be to have to import the card info into a FCP system and playout to the 1200a via firewire. Is this the only currently viable option??

Thanks for any insight you might have into any or all of these questions.

Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Gary,
Which menu turns on the User Bits on the 1200a? Is it the one where you tell the 1200a to regen UB and TC?

Thanks in advance.
Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

[Marion Laney]

Walter,
Are you awake yet???

Seriously, I hope you and Clay had a wonderful time this weekend and the Varicam cooperated.

Chat with you soon!

Marion

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.