[Michael Palmer]

No Bob…
You are wrong, this will not be a hostile rant on my end. It’s really good to know you think HDV is such a professional format. I use 422 deck control with my M25U and it works great. My question had to do with HDV firewire control, I use the DV firewire and 422 from my Kona LHe. I really don’t think anyone is relying on frame accuracy from Long GOP, or am I wrong.

Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

Is this happening on the minute mark, and could it be from recording non-drop frame and FC thinks it is DF?

MP

[Michael Palmer]

Are you speaking about HDV FW control or DV FW control?

[Michael Palmer]

There tech support department wins it for me.
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

However you can buy 2 of the Sony M25 decks and the 2-Convergent Design HD-Connect MI boxes for the same price as one 1500. This will also get you HD-SDI uncompressed 1920×1080 signal to do what ever you want with. Both decks are really good solutions.
Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

There are two places to reset to help capture the entire tape, In the L&C window find the Clip Setting tab and uncheck Create new clip on start/stop. and in the User Preferences General tab find On timecode break change to Warn After Capture. I like to have multiple clips made for me as it makes it so easy to rename the one’s I want and to trash the one’s I don’t.
Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

If you don’t want to purchase the HD-SDI capture card then you should have looked into having the post house convert the HDV digitally to both HD cam tapes for finishing and DVC Pro HD for your off line.

If you’re working with Sony HDV, I believe the very best way to convert HDV to HD cam is with hardware and a good solution is to use the Sony 1500 HDV professional deck that can decompress this 1440x1080i 4:2:0 signal into a 1920x1080i 4:2:2 uncompressed signal.

I however found another all digital solution for about half this price using the HDMI port on the M25U deck and using the Convergent Design HD-Connect MI box converting to HD-SDI.

I believe you need to go buy the HD-SDI capture card with all the conversions you need to make. It is easy for me to recommend the AJA LHe as it has been wonderful and so are the tech support people. The BM Intensity is only supported with Intel machines.

BTW….I would not say that converting HDV to DVC Pro HD is an up rez. Converting one highly compressed codec into another highly compressed codec that is smaller is not an up rez in my book. I don’t want to get into a big debate about it as I use this codec too, to get out of the Long GOP editing.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

I would test capture one entire tape as you are thinking, reconnect from it. Long GOP spreads information in both directions so finding all the information to the first frame from recaptured HDV has to be the issue.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

One way might be to use the Convergent Design Nano or HD-Connect MI then into an HD-SDI capture card. I’m sure it doesn’t work with copy protected material. The Intensity card is not supported for any G5 PPC Mac, you will need a Mac Pro for the Intensity card.
Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

It is so easy to stir the pot here. You are right Apple is a hardware company who doesn’t currently make their own piece of hardware to transcode their new Pro Rez codec for my old 2.3 PPC Dual Core. So I need to run out (after forking out for the new FCS2 software) and buy new hardware to take full advantage of a real time software transcode. Did you get all that?
You are right Apple is a hardware company. I knew this would happen when they dumped the IBM chips but now I know the party is soon over.
Michael Palmer