Mike Most -- account bouncing, bad address
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Conform the clips to 23.98. Cut in a 23.98 timeline. If you have to output to DV tape, Final Cut will add 3:2 pulldown on output.
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>>we have to do some “secret handshakes” on our 720p masters to ensure that the shows start at >>01:00:00:02 on the Drop Frame HDCAM masters.
I don’t know why you would do that. 1:00:00:00 is perfectly valid in drop frame. The scheme for drop frame code is to skip 2 frame numbers every minute EXCEPT for every 10th minute. Minute 00 qualifies as a 10th minute.
Besides, I don’t recall ever having seen drop frame time code specified for an HD delivery master. In fact, I didn’t even know it existed (it doesn’t exist for 23.98).
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Are you comparing recording formats or cameras? The fact is that right now, the only P2 based HD recording camera is the HVX200, a $6000 prosumer unit. The XDCam HD camera is a professional unit, with professional interchangeable lenses, a bigger form factor, and bigger sensors – and a considerably higher price.
If you’re comparing currently available products, you’re not comparing apples to apples.
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Gary, I’m surprised at you. You’re not listening. There are no flags in the stream unless the material is shot with the Varicam. They are inserted as part of the camera’s internal conversion process. There is no way to record on a DVCPro HD tape machine at anything but 60 frames. That’s how the format works. There is no such thing as 720p/24 DVCPro HD, except within a computer.
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>>I then tried capturing at 1080i 29.97 and that also worked fine. So it seems there’s a hiccup with the >>combination of 1080i and 59.94, which I can’t figure out.
1080i/29.97 **is** 60i. The 59.94 setting is meant for 720p.
One question, though. I find it hard to believe that your delivery requirement is in the DVCPro HD tape format, especially if it’s 1080/60i. Wouldn’t it be a bit more prudent to either output directly to 720p/60 (as you said you could without problems) and take it to a facility to make the delivery element (I’m guessing that’s probably either HDCam, HDCam SR, or D5), or even to render out your timeline to a 720p/60 Quicktime movie, and take that to a facility on a Firewire drive to accomplish the same thing? In either case, it seems that just getting it to a DVCPro HD tape in 1080i is not accomplishing the creation of your delivery element. Even if you have to take your own 1200 machine to the facility, it will enable them to play back your 720p/60 tape as 1080i directly, provided you have the HDSDI card. In any of these scenarios, it’s not necessary to do what you seem to be having some trouble doing.
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>>So i guess that would make me dishonest and unrealistic.
No, it doesn’t, and I wish you would stop trying to turn this simple discussion into some sort of personal argument. In doing so you’re missing my point. I already said that I hope they succeed. I also said they haven’t succeded yet. What’s wrong with that?
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Not condescending. Honest. And realistic, unlike many of the other posts here and elsewhere that are gushing over a non-existent product. As for “the team,” none of them have ever done a camera product before, at least none that I know of. This doesn’t mean they can’t, it just means they have no track record in this area – unlike some other companies like. oh, Panasonic, Sony, Arri, Ikegami, Thomson, JVC, Canon – need I go on?
I have never been one to stifle or ignore innovation, which is why I said I hope they succeed in bringing something to market that is anything like what their preliminary specification target is. But that hasn’t happened yet, and to form opinions or purchasing plans based on such promises is to ignore the reality that there’s work to be done that can only be done with equipment you can actually buy.
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>>Avail 12/06 or 1/07
Or 6/07. Or 1/08. Or never.
Either you’re young or haven’t been to very many NAB conventions, or both. Red does not currently exist. If and when it does exist, you can consider it for purchase and use. Until then, it’s a concept. Nothing more.
And as for that ship date, no ship date can be set until the product is actually in production. Anything prior to that is an optimistic guess. In most cases, a VERY optimistic guess. Perrsonally, I do hope they can actually create something close to what they’re promising, but time will tell.
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There is no such thing as an “Intel Mac G5.” A G5 Mac is, by definition, a Power PC machine. The Apple Intel machines have a different name – MacBook, in the case of the laptops. Furthermore, the Pro line of Apple machines based on the Intel processors has not been introduced yet, so what you’re talking about doesn’t exist even under a different name.
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There is no such thing as DVCPro HD 1080/24p, at least not officially. The only way to get such a preset that I know of is to install Blackmagic’s latest software with one of their HD cards. You will then see a 1080/24p preset, but if you look at the actual settings what Blackmagic actually does is use a 50i setting – with fields 1 and 2 being identical – and plays it back at 24. Kind of a “slow PAL” recording approach. Very clever, but it’s really intended to work with 1080/24p original, which the HVX200 does not produce (it’s actually 1080i/60 with 3:2 pulldown).
The other option, of course, is to capture using 1080i, then removing the pulldown in Cinema Tools or something similar to create 24p clips.