Peter Dewit
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there are the clamshell 8mm decks that actually have a firewire output. That would probably be much better quality than doing a regular composite transfer
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Even if you have a g5 uncomrpessed footage can be captured then transcoded into Prores as well
also you will need to download the newest Kona2 software and drivers to utilize ProRes at all
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FCP 6.0
OS 1.4.9all Io drivers up to date and haven’t changed recently
no external drives going to an internal SATA drive
no reference hooked up IO control panel set to use SDI Input as reference
The Cubs stink go Mets
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To answer the OP it depeends on what you’re final output is going to be. if you want ot keep it HDV work in HDV natively. Sadly I’ve found going from HDV footage to an SD DVD using software to downcovert leaves much to be desired. It takes lots tweaking and playing around to get the SD DVD to look ok. i think the decks or cameras do a better job of downconverting and give you a better result. Plus capturing as DV lets you avoid some of the annoyances of working in HDV.
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Everyone is “doing” HD then down converting to Beta Sp or DigiBeta to deliever thier content anyway. That’s the part they don’t like to tell ya. 🙂
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Quality aside usefulness is something ot keep in mind. If you’re doing everything in house you should be ok but XDCAM decks are very uncommon and if you need to make a transfer or conversion you’re really going to have trouble finding a duplication facility with XDCAm equipment on hand. Whereas you can hand a Digibeta to jsut about any post facility and they’ll be able to work with it.
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All of the soruce footage was either stills or 4:3. In order to avoid having to render constantly I made an edit I simply edited in a 4:3 sequence.
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I don’t know the specifics but the footage is apparently going over a video feed of some type. They requested a full frame anamorpihc mpeg2 for thier delivery format. I assume they are unsqueezing it via thier broadcast.
i know it’s a rather unusual formatting choice which is why I don’t know how ot do it off-hand.
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Ok so a slight update.
I tried the demo version of that frame converter filter. It looks ok but I think the video looks inferiro to our hardware transfer. I found another filter, one of Joe’s filters, that allows manual shifting of fields. I’m trying that one out right now but finding the right combination(it gives you options to shift upper and lower fields as well as shift forward or backward a field).
Hopefully I can find a combination that looks right on this.
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He said Kona 2 in his subject so I assumed that’s what he had access to. His post, however, doesn’t seem to specify.
But yes James Walter is correct a kona3 card is capable of doing the 720p cross-converts if you have access to one.