Michael Phillips
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Xpress Pro HD used direct capture over Firwire for DV25, DV50 and DVCPRO 100. By adding the Mojo hardware you get support for Standard Definition video via composite, s-video or component.
Media Composer Adrenaline HD, Symphony Nitris, and DS Nitris all have HD-SDI connections.
The flags in varicam will only be supported when the DVCPRO is captured natively over FireWire (Xpress Pro and Media Composer Adrenaline HD).
Michael
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On a Meridian based system, you will want to select 23.976p as the project type. Also, working in 24p or 23.976p will require that the material was shot with NORMAL pulldown. You also need to work in an “m” resolution to get real time play for multicam playback.
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14:1 is a compressed standard definition resolution. You can transcode from any of the DNxHD resolutions to 14:1. The resulting aspect ration will be 16:9 anamorphic.
Michael
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It will be a software upgrade to the Xpress Pro and MC Adrenaline prodcuts. THe difference will be that it can be done on the fly during capture eliminating the extra time and space to create the files.
Michael
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If you go to the digitize tool, you will see resolutions that have an “m” next to them. These are intended for real time playback when using multicam.
Michael
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The FiWire connection is blocked or being used by another device…. is there something else on the same bus? Check the device manager if on XP.
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Legal broadcast colors and graphic color space are two different things and trying to please two masters… well you know how that goes.
I would suggest you correct all the blacks in the program to be correct, this way a DVD on television is correct. This is black at 16:16:16 (8 bit RGB) and white at 235:235:235 (8 bit RGB).
If you want to create a version for computer viewing, select RGB color in the Quicktime export which will stretch the 16-235 to 0-255. This is helpful for some MPEG2 encoders that expect that range as well as video streaming formats seen on computers. But in doing so, any black detail that was in the 0-16 range before doing this will be gone.
If you just want to have your black bars match, then create your own in PhotoShop with 0:0:0 or use the Title Tool to make the bars as they are 0:0:0.
I don’t know what might be causing the white blanking. Is it over the entire program?
Michael
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Tim –
Support for flags in the Varicam is scheduled for the Q4 release but will work when capturing native DVCPRO100 over FireWire. What project type would you most likely be using the flagged frames? In SD?
Michael
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Make sure your computer monitor is properly calibrated (including thre overlay). How does the footage look on a client monitor?
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On Meridien based systems (such as Symphony), realtime multicamera play only works with “m” resolutions.
Michael