Phil Balsdon
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Fluro lighting is driven by alternating current. In the USA this is 60khz, in UK and other PAL countries its 50khz. To sync your camera you need to shoot at frame rates or shutter speeds to match this.
So if you are in the US you should shoot 720 60p. It’s okay to shoot at 30p too, as this is exactly equivalent to 2 cycles.You can’t shoot at shutter speeds that are slower than your frame rate. Think about it, if your are using a frame rate of 60p you haven’t got time for a 1/30th shutter exposure on each frame, as its twice as long as your frame rate.
1080p has maximum frame rate of 30p on the Canon cameras, this is why you can use a slower shutter speed of 1/30th second.
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Every single reply is excellent information, next time issue the crew with a production procedure based on these posts.
The Color Collector 3 Way filter has a color match facility, try using that on one shot from of each the cameras (skin tones would perhaps be best used now) and then spend time matching levels for each camera until you have a good result. Save the grade for each camera into your Effects / Favorites folder. Then apply each saved filter to the rest of the shots from that camera in your timeline. This will only work well if your camera ops have been consistent in their exposure and color balancing.
If you know the Color program well you can also save grades and apply them to all other shots in there too!
“Youth and enthusiasm, are no match for old age and treachery” (experience)
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The AJA Ki Pro will take the component analogue from the JVC HD100. It doesn’t take firewire. It will take SDI from the JVC HD250.
There is a dedicated Firestore DR HD100 for the JVC that works seamlessly with the camera and records to tape at the same time. It’s HDV though and the Ki Pro will give you ProRes from the camera head via component out.
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H264 is NOT an editing format. Search this forum (and every other forum that deals with FCP and Canon HD DSLRs) and you will find a lot of people that have run into problems and take note of the advice experienced people have given them. If you persist with this workflow expect to run in to a lot of problems. Your color grading will be particularly problematic.
Why are shooting 30fps when you want to output at 25fps. There is a firmware upgrade for this camera that allows it to shoot 24, 25, 30fps.
If you want to get an experts advice about using this camera start here https://philipbloom.co.uk/
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Cinema Tools might do this for you.
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The H264 method is definitely the way to go. The only times I’ve found the Adobe Flash Encoder to work better is when I’ve needed to crop the video during the compression process.
Not sure about the life of Flash Video though, HTML5 is introducing a
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I don’t know what has happened. I do know FCP5 will work with this format.
The 25p setting was not there but I told you how to do create that in earlier post.
You do appear to have HDV settings as you’ve selected one (HDV – Apple Intermediate Codec).
Sorry at this point I don’t think I can help you further.
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These are the wrong settings these are for DVC PRO HD a Panasonic format.
You should be using HDV 720p25 everywhere you have chosen DVC PROHD.
Your frame size should be 1280 x 720.Your playback speed problems are caused by some settings at 60p, some at 24p and some at 25p.
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Can you post a screen capture of your Item Properties for your Sequence and Imported video files?
FCP6 and 7 make this a little easier by offering a conform sequence option but it should not be necessary we appear to have almost resolved the issue.
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This is a problem with either the way the camera is set up or a firewire problem.
Is the camera set to VTR mode? Is the IEEE 1394 switch set to HDV. Follow the connection / set up process I showed in the video in the earlier link. Did you connect the camera to the computer BEFORE you powered everything up?
The second thing to try is a different firewire cable that you know works or test the one you are using by connecting an external hard drive with it.
If having tested all these things you still don’t have any success try shooting some SD DV video with the camera and follow the correct set up procedure but with camera and FCP set to DV PAL. If this works then I’m afraid you may have a failed HD Firewire board on your camera. The HDV and SD boards are separate on this camera so normally only one side fails. This type of failure is normally caused by incorrect plugin procedure – connecting camera to computer with devices powered up being the main culprit.
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