Pierson Jacquelin
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Ah, yes–thanks. Too bad you can’t save just the encoded files in the archive option…
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Hmmmm…even with slug, there is a slight green shift that starts at frame 23 in a 45 frame dissolve from video to the nested still I created earlier, which, BTW, is a grayscale PNG.
Strange…
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[gary adcock] “dropping a a black slug in has been known to correct the problem.”
The green shift also happens during dissolves over video. Soooo…I took your slug suggestion one step further: I nested the .PNG with a piece of slug and applied the trans to the Nest–looks fine. Laborious, but fine. I haven’t noticed this kind of thing before, though, is this endemic to DVCPro HD timelines?
Why would slug make a difference?
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Amazing–a company that actually outlines how to use their equipment correctly to get from point A to Z !
Keep up the good work!
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Yes, the internals will handle DV. As for X-Raid, we used Apple’s fiber-channel X Raid. Worked great.
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[Mike Cohen] “Incidentally, will FCP with a Kona or decklink let you digitize at low-res to save space for later conforming – or does the SATA raid or whatever you are using just have so much space that you don’t worry about space. A little off topic, but thought I would ask.”
Usually there’s so much space it doesn’t matter. Especially if you are using the DV codec as your offline and then uprez in, say, 8 bit HD.
…But I am used to a 2 Terabyte X-Raid…
-Pierson
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[gary adcock] “OK, think about what your saying,
How do you get accurate time code or conform something that only records an I-frame every 15 frames?”Ummm…because I have blind faith in the Sony engineers that came up with this format wouldn’t do something that dastardly to us? …but mostly it’s my naive assumption that just because I see what looks like timecode numbers in the top right of the LCD: that means that every frame is numerically accounted for on the tape and can be found later…right? 😉
But seriously, Mike brings up a good point in the next post:
“but let’s say you want to modify the program a year from now – having used the HDV footage as DVCPROHD – you cannot batch digitize off the original HDV tapes with any accuracy – no?”
1) Would my batch dij be off by an average of 15 frames when I re-conform?
2) Is the only surefire way to ensure forward-compatiblity is to dub them to a DVCPro HD or HDCam tape?
I’m thinking here of the whole offline/online editing process — some people do need to eventually go to another platform, for whatever nerarious reasons…and some of them will go pale when you tell them you need to dub all 43 tapes of their little doc to HDCam before we can begin editing.
…I do like the idea of using the Panasonic codec for projects that will stay on my machine, tho.
-Pierson
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[gary adcock] “Why not try what has already been posted– convert both the HDV and the HDCAM content to the DVCPROHD 1080|60 codec with your Kona board.”
How do people use their Kona boards to digitize HDV and still get accurate Timecode when it’s time to conform? The Miranda box?
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OK, here’s a question: if I go HDV deck thru the Miranda Box to HD-SDI then into my Kona 2 card, will the timecode make it? Can I edit, then Media Manage my edit and just re-dij/uprez the material I used? I ask becuause I am assuming that normally the Timecode is coming through the RS-422 connection that I use to control the HDCam/Varicam deck…if I were to use the Miranda and it’s advertised “Timecode Out” function through HD-SDI, would I have timecode embedded in the Quicktime?
For that matter, when it comes time to Online/Uprez from HDV tapes, is there a HDV deck out there that is RS-422 controllable for use in the online bay? (as far as I know, the blue HDV deck is only firewire/LAN-C controllable) Or is everyone out there making dubs to HDCam tape from HDV and using those as the Masters…sounds like an ingenious way for Sony to sell twice as much tape!
-Pierson
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I think the strategy at this point would be to render selects as HDV and output them to HDV tape, thus making a new master that can be brought into an online/conform later on (if we go in that direction).
Has anyone done this? Does the “upconvert” look OK?
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