Michael Phillips
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Yes.
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NORMAL will work if coming in over SDI or analog. 2.1 added the abiity to do NORMAL capture over FireWire. Same for Xpress Pro.
Michael
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There is a real time AVX timecode plug-in floating around on the Internet somewhere that is part of the Illusion set of effects. There is a real time AVX version being worked on within Avid that will appear in a future release.
You should check out Horita for RS-422 to timecode overlay products.
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When working in a totaly digtial environment, the same 8Bit RGB values apply for both NTSC and PAL. It’s only when going back to analog you need to deal with the IRE levels; for example 16RGB = 7.5IRE for NTSC and 0 for PAL and NTSC-J (Japan).
Michael
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OK… here’s what you do –
You must be in a 23.976p project since all DV 24p cameras actually shoot at 23.976.
Connect via FireWire and set up the deck configurations for your deck.
Not knowing whether the footage was shot ADVANCED pulldown or not will put you through a little trial and error until you figure it out. If you play the tape back in the camera, the on screen display will tell you 24pA or just 24p. The “A” denotes ADVANCED.
Let’s assume advanced. Go to your Film/24p settings and set the Pulldown cadence menu to 2:3:3:2 (ADVANCED pulldown).
The capture some material on the fly. If it looks good when playing back, then you are all set, the flags are being seen during capture and the proper frame is being dropped to create the original 24 frame capture (23.976).
If it is wrong, then go back to the settings and check the Cadence relationship to 01:00:00:00 to “A”. Then try again. If it is still wrong, go to the Film/24p settings and set the pulldown cadence menu to 2:3:2:3 (NORMAL) and capture again.
Once you get capture that is correct, you are all set for either ADVANCED or NORMAL.
Hopefully the entire tape (or shoot for that matter) was done with one type of pulldown versus the other. I had a job where 5 takes out of the entire tape were NORMAL with the rest ADVANCED.
Some decks can hide the flags and subs to analog or digibeta for example will lose the flags. That is why you have the “override” features in the Film/24p settings to allow capture anyway.
Michael
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The Parhelia card actually took the video overlay of the active playback screen and sent it to the client monitor. It inserted 2:3 pulldown and when the monitors were set to 16:9 in the Avid it actually letterboxed it on output. That card did not send out the entire edit monitor – just the video.
Michael
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No, but you can back that up as well to DVD depending on how much media you have. The easiest would be to consolidate seqeunce to a single drive wuth some handles. Then back those files to a DVD. At DV25, it will be about 5 mins/gig so a single sided DVD will hold about 22 mins of media.
Michael
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You can back them up just like any other file. I like to zip mine up first before I do. If you don’t, and you restore the project folder straight from CD/DVD then make sure you get properties (or info) and make sure that you deslect the “read only” check box. It gets turned into a read only when written to CD/DVD. That’s why I zip first (besides making it file smaller).
Michael
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There are grahics cards that have a S-Video or other connection to them like the Matrox Parhelia card used to do which drives two edit monitors and a third “client monitor.”
The camera is another way to do it, or any other DV type device. I have used a DVD recorder that has a FireWire input and outputs component, s-video, and composite. Not only does it work as a transcoder, it can create a DVD on the fly by hitting the “record” button.
Michael
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You could look for a graphics display card that has s-video other video type output.
Michael