Matt Larson
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[JeremyG] ”
I am still struggling to figure out what you are doing, but it’s cool. I’ll try and help anyway.”I’ll try and put on my mediator hat: I think what he is saying is that he has an edited show that has been laid off to tape. He has REDIGITIZED that show from the tape and is using the blade tool to cut the redigitized edited program into individual shots.
Have you tried opening this footage in Quicktime to see if you see any field issues there? I know you can’t cut with the blade, but maybe you can visually see if anything looks off.
Another thought is to put this into a sequence with Upper Field first (if that’s what you need it to be) and save it out as a self contained QT. Try it with a short test clip. Might force things back to the right order.
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I have used footage from the HDX-900 on a couple dozen projects now and I have yet to see 1 issue where the audio and video are out of sync because of the camera.
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Have you tried capturing your 60 fps footage AT 60 fps? That’s what I would do if you are trying to use the slow motion from the camera. Then run that footage through the DVCProHD Frame Rate converter to slow down the playback. (In the “Tools” menu in FCP 6 and in the Extras folder on the install disk of earlier versions)
You may need to contact BlackMagic to see if their card keeps the Varicam flags once digitzied because you will need those to slow down the clip. If not, digitize through Firewire.
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Keith, thanks. I have had to do a “poor man’s” version of this a few times in the past by exporting a Reference movie (see my post above), but next time I will try the method you described.
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Sync the handheld footage to the rest of the cameras manually, leaving Slug in the places where the camera was paused. Then Export the handheld footage (as a Quicktime self-contained, NOT using Quicktime Conversion).
Import the handheld Quicktime back into your project and use that as your new source for that angle.
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What about a graphic card? Do you have that installed in one of the slots as well?
Not sure what the “stock” config is, but AJA recommends using the 2nd option in the utility, with: lane 1-graphics card; lane 2-open; lane 3-Kona card; lane 4-fibre card
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Check the History palette. Or, click the Batch Monitor button on the top of the Compressor job window.
You can also set a preference to launch the batch monitor everytime you submit a job
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Open up the AJA Control Panel. Click on the “Control” tab and change the Default Video Output to “Test Pattern”. Then under the Test Pattern option below that, click the button and change it to “Load File…” Pick your file and your all set
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The only thing to know with using SD tapes (I have used them for a bout 6 months in the 1400) is that the HD tapes run about twice as fast as the SD tapes. So a 24 minute SD tape gives you about 12 minutes recording in HD. Same with SD 66 minutes = ~33 minutes HD.
And you probably are aware, but the adapter for playing back mini-DV tapes only alows for playback. You can’t record to mini-DV as far as I know.
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1 — If I get the card, will I be able to play an HD timeline to my SD monitor? I’m assuming that I can’t but will get a single frame in pause to view.
>>Absolutely! I did this for the first few months I had a Kona 2 but no HD monitor. Make sure that FCP is set to playback the HD sequence, and then set the Kona to downconvert the output to the monitor.
2 — Can I downconvert from a deck to another deck without digitizing? (You don’t need a card for that, do you?)
>>You are right in that it has nothing to do with a card (everything to do with the deck). I’ve used a DVCProHD deck and an XDCamHD deck and both of those have the option to do live downconverts. I think it’s a pretty standard feature, definitely check with the specific deck though.
3 — Will I need a black-burst generator? I read there is one selling for $300 but do I need it since I don’t own any decks? I try reading about those devices but can’t seem to grasp the purpose for it.
>> You already need one once you asked your second question. There are much better blackburst authorities on this forum than me, but for lack of a better term, BB keeps all of your gear in sync. If you ever plan on using the Kona with a deck or going deck to deck (Like question 2) you want a BB. Buy the Gen 10 from AJA, plug it in to your Kona and any decks you get in the future and don’t think about it anymore.
4 — Final question, when people downconvert to SD & edit it, why would they upconvert back to HD? Doesn’t this lose quality?
>>Once you downconvert to SD your footage will not be HD quality again. So in that sense you are right. But, your SD footage will not look any worse once it has been upconverted to HD. Does that make sense? If I have an NTSC version of an ad that I edited in HD, I will upconvert it to put the NTSC version on the same HD master tape as the HD edited spot when I am doing backups. It won’t look as good as the HD version, but it won’t look worse than dumping it off to Betacam or some other NTSC format.