Michael Gissing
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Without a card Like a Decklink or Kona, you can’t control the deck or feed in either component analog or serial digital.
Editors often bring me their external drive with the FCP project on it and I output to digi beta with my Decklink card. If it is not an FCP project, I ask for a DV tape and I dub it to digi beta. I prefer the FCP project file as I nest, put a broadcast safe filter on and drop it into an uncompressed sequence to render as it makes the titles better than the DV version.
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[Dave LaRonde] “but audio doesn’t HAVE a timecode..”
Dave, both broadcast wav and SD2 files have embedded timecode. Sebsky tools (as someone else mentioned) converts them to QT with the files timecode.
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David,
NTSC to PAL is 4% or three quarters of a semi tone. It is certainly noticable to all but the tone deaf. We use the MPEX 3 algorithim built into Pyramix for changing speed without pitch and it is the best. Changing speed for 30fm versus 29.97fm on a pilot tone nagra tape is insignificant as it is .1%
Don’t worry about using another tool that tries to maintain pitch for such tiny correction. You can use Quicktime to do a 30 – 29.97 change.
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The other option if you have a Decklink HD pro card is to uprez on the edit to tape. The Decklink can up and down convert SD- HD. I use it to down convert from HD to SD digi beta.
My clients agree it looks as good if not better than a software down convert (particularly 4:3 LB) and it is real time. Not sure if the up convert is as useful tho.
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Normailising makes peak levels to maximum, but that doesn’t mean the clips will all sound the sound volume. That is determined by content, dynamic range and use of compressor/limiters.
Not sure in mac world but there are heaps of free batch processing normalisers in the PC world which will convert aif files.
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You can put the SD sequence as a nest in an HD sequence and render. I have never done a whole program, but short sequences. Much much slower than real time. I think the Teranex option is quicker and probably looks better.
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Using a DA-88 or DA-98 you can control the machine via 9 pin. Make sure that the machines have the interface card for 9 pin & VSync. However, the Decklink card can only capture 2 x AES stereo channels, so it would mean two passes to capture eight tracks off the DA-88.
Better workflow is to talk to an audio post person, have them conform the DA-88 audio to your final cut (via EDl or XML)and produce a final mix. As you have already said you are not an “audio post guy”, I wouldn’t try to do a final mix using Soundtrack Pro.
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[kkajino] “But, for the most part, I’ve never personally met a serious producer with enough budget who chooses HD video over film”
George Lucas shot the last two Star Wars on HDcam SR, but if you haven’t met him then I can’t fault your argument.
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350MB/s is plenty for 10 bit. Bit depth affects grey scale resolution so if you are adjusting white/ black or gamma levels, then bit depth matters.
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The Z1 needs to be set to output DV via the firewire port. When this is set properly, the light at the firewire port shows DV not HDV. Connect the firewire to the Mac and select DV PAL or NTSC in the FCP easy setup. You should be able to capture straight in that way. No need for any external cards.
Version 4.5 sees the Sony camera as long as it is properly set to donwconvert to DV. Version 5 FCP is needed to capture as HDV