[Roger Hendrick]

If you look at the zoom level it’s at 56% – that’s not a two up view it’s zoomed into some split screen footage… I was hopeful…

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

I’m using QT wrapped XDCAM EX footage and I see excess noise and flicker but only during playback. Stepping frame by frame is fine, as is QT7, FCP7 and Log and Transfer playback. Looks like low-res playback and no way to tell or adjust.

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

Twelve Thousand Gigabytes … But that’s still a lot of floppies 🙂

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

Yes, the Calibrated{Q} XD Decode plugin *should* work. I totally spaced over the fact you don’t have the BPAV files… You could transcode to proxies, hand those over and then re-conform back in FCP from an EDL…

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

I use Paragon Software’s NTFS For Mac plugin. It allows read/write access to NTFS drives at native speed on the mac. It’s been rock solid for me where MacDrive on the PC was the cause of a couple of drive corruptions. Almost all of my studio’s portable hard drives are NTFS and since Mac’s can always ‘read’ NTFS, I can comfortably send drives to clients and colleagues.

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

In my experience ‘pulldown’ refers to slowing the footage and for 24p film telecine it would need to be slowed by 24/1.001 to fit in with HD NTSC workflow at 23.98. Pulldown with a ratio like ‘3:2 pulldown’ refers to duplicating frames or interpolating fields to fit in a larger spatial time like 29.97 in the referenced pattern. This has nothing to do with drop/non-drop and is a common misconception (my referring to 24 -> 23.98 as pulldown not withstanding… we all contribute to the confusion). One major problem with the Canon 5DMkII before the firmware was updated was that it shot in 30p. This was not shorthand for 29.97 and required an extra step (in Cinema Tools for instance) to play nice in an NTSC workflow. That’s the crux of the miss-communication – these terms 24p, 30p etc. are being used as shorthand for 23.98 and 29.97 when they do exist as their own frame rates and are not interchangeable. Likewise 29.97 can be numbered in either Drop or Non-Drop timecode, it’s still 29.97 and the timecode numbering (dropping a frame number but of course you’re still keeping the frame intact) is completely different than the actual frame rate or timing.

Here’s a link to Sony’s product spec for the HDWF900R. They specify 24p and 23.98 as available frame rates.
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-HDWF900R/

Here’s a link to someone else’s 24p/23.98 response using ‘pulldown’ to describe it.
https://www.highdef.com/library/faq.htm

And a good description on Wikipedia here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

Just another note… The EX series 24p is actually 23.98 (you have to go F900 to get 24p – if you really want it) and for any NTSC workflow, 23.98 is the appropriate frame rate. I believe it’s still considered a ‘pulldown’ because it’s 24/1.001 so for film you’ll need 24 frames but for anything HD in the NTSC world you use 23.98 (for acquisition/post and DI) and of course 25p for PAL folks.

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

It records to SxS in HQ mode as true 24p but the signal out of SDI is 24psf (if you apply the menu setting).

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

Mac Blu-ray playback with Boot Camp is great.

Mac Pro 2008 3 GHz 8 core
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
10GB ram
Boot Camp 2.2
Vista 64 SP2
Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3(Ultra)
Sony BD-R drive in USB enclosure

Playback of Blu-ray discs, BD-R(25), BD-RW(25), BD-5,9 and BD build folders from hard drive. Roxio DVDIt HD Pro and Encore CS4 both work fine making BD-R one-offs. Scenarist 5 and BD Studio won’t run under Vista but supposedly WinXP/Boot Camp would work.

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring

[Roger Hendrick]

We also back up to LTO tape. We have LTO-4 drives at work. Projects are moved to a mirrored NAS for near term storage then archived to LTO tape from there, on a schedule. For P2 and XDCAM-EX footage we offload cards directly to both the NAS and local RAID. We used to use BD-R to archive but we prefer this NAS to tape arrangement – much faster/cheaper and we have lots of redundancy both locally at the workstation and within the NAS. The tapes are bullet proof, *excellent* error correction, large capacity and fast (though we usually run backups overnight).

As far as price, yes new LTO-4 *is* expensive, however I just picked up two LTO-2 drives off ebay for about $80 each. I’ll use one in my home studio hanging off an old G4, running Ubuntu as a simple RAID 1 NAS / backup station. Now I’ll have the same industrial quality backup for my home network. The other one is kept as a spare (a no-brainer given the price).

LTO-2 is good for 200-400GB per $30 tape and the LTO spec (which is open source unlike DAT or DLT) specifies that you can read back from at least two generations of future drives. The tape data *mounts* so copying from LTO-2 to any newer LTO flavor in the future will be easy (our to some other BU option – the *cloud* maybe??).

Roger Hendrick
The Airship Factory
http://www.airshipfactory.com
HD Video Production – Blu-ray Authoring