[Peter Barrett]

I thought I had tried 29.97 but maybe worth another look – I think I was dropping frames, the RAIDs are very full, but I’ve just freed up 600GB…

We’re actually shaving off a couple of bits and going via DVCPRO HD – not ideal I know but the HDCAM deck’s down the road and we’re trying to feed it 59.94… for SxSW in Austin Tx. Odd that an international festival can’t project 24P, when they’ve asked for HDCAM – or is just SR that does it? I thought they might even stretch to 25P, but no…

Anyhow it’s a 25fps-originated project going to a film print, so the mix has been stretched for a 23.976 playout with pulldown to avoid a full standards conversion, with all its attendant artefacts…

If I can’t get the Kona to do it, I’ll swap it out for a Multibridge Pro we have – hopefully it’ll do what the Decklink HD cards will… and failing that I have Dr Nattress’s Standards Conversion package with G Pulldown which looks great, at the cost of a big render…

Thanks!

Peter

Quad G5/NVidia Quadro/Kona LHe/Infortrend RAID/Final Touch HD 2.6.1/FCP 5.1.2/OS X 10.4.8

[Peter Barrett]

Thanks Walter, yes the Kona3 is certainly the more capable card, but we bought the LHe for its analogue I/O capability, which has been very useful. Odd that the Control Panel even includes the conversion setting selection, and the LHe-specific manual describes the Codec Screen settings as below. Yet I can’t find a single instance where pulldown is available – since it’s only applicable to a 23.98 source and not option, downconversion or otherwise, seems available.

To quote the LHe manual:
24-30 FPS Conversion

[Peter Barrett]

BTW, this is a little perplexing given that according to this release, AJA’s hardware competitor and driver partner BlackMagic has been able to do this on the humble DeckLink since 2005:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/105/761439?&archive=T
3:2 pulldown on HD output

HD 1080/59.94i output from a HD 1080/23.98p timeline in Final Cut Pro HD in realtime
3:2 pull down is now supported in high definition. All DeckLink HD series cards can now play out HD 1080/23.98p media at HD/59.94i fps. This feature is extremely useful for monitoring purposes. HD monitoring and or preview can be done with a domestic HDTV, cutting costs of monitoring high definition media.

Anyone know if the Multibridge Pro can do it?

Thanks!

Quad G5/NVidia Quadro/Kona LHe/Infortrend RAID/Final Touch HD 2.6.1/FCP 5.1.2/OS X 10.4.8

[Peter Barrett]

Thanks for the bad news! It’s Uncompressed 10-bit.

Quad G5/NVidia Quadro/Kona LHe/Infortrend RAID/Final Touch HD 2.6.1/FCP 5.1.2/OS X 10.4.8

[Peter Barrett]

Or perhaps not. It’s an NTSC thing, not HD, reading the manual… so the question remains…

Quad G5/NVidia Quadro/Kona LHe/Infortrend RAID/Final Touch HD 2.6.1/FCP 5.1.2/OS X 10.4.8

[Peter Barrett]

Umm – I think I might have answered my own question – FireWire output. Working at 25 with an AJ-HD1200A, FireWire is never an option. But for this – hey, I’ll try it…

Quad G5/NVidia Quadro/Kona LHe/Infortrend RAID/Final Touch HD 2.6.1/FCP 5.1.2/OS X 10.4.8