[Mike Zimbard]

Walter-
Thanks for your quick and extremely thorough response. As always your answers are extremely helpful. A couple questions:

You asked: What does your deck tell you? The deck will tell you what frame size, frame rate the tapes are shot in.

The deck has the 720 light come on on the lower left, but I can’t find a specific readout for framerate. Where does the 1200a indicate a framerate reading? On my JH-3 I need to manually set the frequency to the recorded frame rate, but I thought for 720P the tape always plays in the 1200a at 59.94 and it’s up to the capturing software/hardware to flag the frames assuming they were recorded properly in camera.

You asked: If the tapes are truly 23.98 from a Varicam, then that’s the correct setting. If they are not, you probably need the 720 / 59.94 setting.

The tapes are from a Panasonic HDX-900. Since the DP told me they were shot at 23.98, I chose that setting because Varicam was the only setting for that frame rate. I did not see any other Kona 2 easy setups for 720P and 23.98 recording.

Thanks again. I really appreciate the help.

[Mike Zimbard]

You should just be able to move her to the correct position in z-space and then use scale to bring her up to the size that looks good for your comp.