[Oli Da costa]

Yep, everything. Footage was captures as DVCPro HD 1080i50 and ALL clips are in the bin showing as upper field first. All graphics are the same (they’ve all been rendered from After Effects using ‘field rendering’ and directly to the native DVCPro CODEC as 1080i50. The exception is the wipes, which need an alpha channel to work. These have been field rendered from 3ds max, maintaining fields through AE and saves as ProRes 4444 QT files with RGBA channels (millions+) to 1920×1080 50i files. In QT and can verify that the fields are present…I can see them…but once in FCP and overlaid over the footage as I require, they look terrible!

Oli

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Jerry. Everything is already set up upper, I was only really trying the ‘none’ option to see if it corrected the graphics field issue, which of course it didn’t. I’ve looked at both the AE and 3ds max forums to try to see if there’s anyone else who’s experienced this, but can’t find any answers. The only suggestion has been to render 3ds max elements with motion blur (very time consuming indeed) and basically fake the interlaced ‘effect’ that way.

Oli

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Bob, thanks for getting back to me, especially on a Sunday! Ok, the GEN10 does output bars on all outputs when connected to an SD monitor over composite, so it’s me, not the box…as usual 😉

I’ve just returned the box to its old home after testing it, and low and behold, one suite now say “reference input connected” (that’s after it having been connected for about 2 minutes), whilst another (BMD Decklink SDI card) still cannot detect the reference. Again, these are direct connections, no DA or patchbay. Is it usual for it to take a few minutes for a reference to be detected? I have to honestly say, that this is the first time I’ve seen any suite say it’s connected to ref, and I’ve been checking and furiously unplugging/re-plugging for the last few hours! Maybe it’ll give it a shake and try again…

Thanks again, Oli

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Mike, that may well be, but it’s a pretty insulting attitude to take and trying to justify it by citing examples from the 70’s doesn’t proved any points or make things any better.

I appreciate Bob’s advice, as I did Baz’s too, but as a forum for professional, asking professional questions, Bob’s response was uncalled for.

In the end, I got my answers thanks to both Bob and Baz, and I appreciate this, but really didn’t need the agro!

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Baz, thanks for your post.

I too have always managed to do frame accurate edits without ref signals, both from FCP and Axio, so it was as much my inexperience with this particular VTR as much as anything that flummoxed me!

I had already downloaded the 2000P manual and found and set up all the relevant settings for SDI signal sync-ing as opposed to external sync, so I can only presume that it was a Premiere/422 issue (sadly Axio still uses Premiere’s in-built 422 dev ctrl) compounded by not having an external sync.

In the end, I managed to get everything laid off and frame accurate and a GEN10 is now on my shopping list…well for whenever I next need to lay-off, which will be sometime yet…

Thanks again!

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Bob…I appreciate your advice but I’m a little taken-a-back at your tone. Yes, I have been doing this for 10 years but I’m entirely self taught – I’m one of a select few Adobe UK freelance demo artists – and yes, I’ve survived for 10 years without one, producing very good, very cutting edge work for lots of very well known client and haven’t thought that I had the need for one until now.

As for how I’ve managed until now, all the gear I use has always had some sort of an internal reference/genlock and as I never do any VTR-to-VTR dubs, etc, I’ve never considered the use of one of these. Only a very small fraction of my work involves tape lay-offs – maybe once every 6 months as most of my work is delivered tapelessly or via low-end DV/HDV formats or via the web, hence my lack of knowledge in this area. I appreciate you’re a video engineering whizz but I wasn’t expecting that sort of a tirade…

From having a scan of the brochures for these products – I’ve so far looked at the AJA, BMD and LYNX sync gens – I gather that you just plug em in to your suite(s) – disabling internal sync generation – and VTR, set the appropriate format and then go…is that it?

Oli

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Thanks Jeremy, much appreciated!

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Hi Kristian,

Thanks for the confirmation!

Regards, Oli

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1

[Oli Da costa]

Doh! Is this what I’m looking for: BMD-1PCIESLCAB

https://www.onevideo.co.uk/adapter-pcie-4l-slot-to-pcie-cable-p-114.html

…there I go, answering my own posts again.

Could someone please confirm?

Oli da Costa
Fraktiv Post Production
London W1