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Richard Lowe
February 19, 2010 at 10:04 pm in reply to: HDV to DVCPRO-50 Capture/Convert

Thanks, Shane. Extremely helpful as always!
Richard Lowe
February 19, 2010 at 9:54 pm in reply to: 720 Anamorphic or 853?

Thanks, everyone!
Richard Lowe
November 4, 2009 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

Do you suggest, then, installing a second firewire card on a Mac Pro? What would be a good solution for a laptop?
Richard Lowe
November 4, 2009 at 7:08 pm in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

Okay, well, I definitely didn’t set the deck (or change the configuration when I got it), so that may be it.

As for the Firewire connections, I had the deck connected to my Powerbook’s Firewire 400 and a hard drive connected to my Firewire 800. Could that cause the problem? (I wasn’t sharing a hub or daisy-chain.)
Richard Lowe
November 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

Yeah, it was via Firewire.

I don’t know what the deck settings were. I didn’t set them, unfortunately, and I didn’t know it needed specific settings. The company we rented from didn’t mention it, either, when we told them we were capturing DV50.

So you’re feeling is it’s a deck setting? What should the AJ-SD930 be set to for DV50?
Richard Lowe
November 4, 2009 at 12:31 am in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

It was the AJ-SD93P Panasonic deck…
Richard Lowe
November 3, 2009 at 10:38 pm in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

David–

Thanks for the advice. Apologies that it took days and days, but thanks for giving me the heads up to not spend too much time on it.

It’s strange: we captured several tapes, but this is the only one with an issue. An anomaly or could it be a tape issue?
Richard Lowe
November 3, 2009 at 10:36 pm in reply to: Audio Drift Issue (47.962 khz & 29.96 fps???)

Hi Dave,

The FCP Item Properties window shows 47962.4hz, which I imagine translates to 47.962 khz for the clip with channels 1 & 2 and 47.963.1hz for the clip with channels 3 & 4. (I am not an audio guy, unfortunately.)

However, the video says 29.97 in FCP.

Thanks!

–richard.
Richard Lowe
July 14, 2009 at 6:11 pm in reply to: 1080p30 to 23.98 problem

Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

I understand about the testing before shooting. Unfortunately, I was brought on a month into production and was the first person to think about post. It’s very maddening to be in that situation because a lot of this is preventable had there been some forethought. It seems that nowadays, a lot of productions try to save money by skimping on post, thinking it’s not important. WHY?

Anyway, the audio and EX 1 footage sync fine. It’s just the HVX footage that I’m worried about. I did some tests for the producer/director and he seems to be okay with simply using the “Remove Advanced Pulldown” tool, so I guess that’s what we’ll do. Looks choppy, but oh well. Until I figure something else out, that’s the route we’ll take.