Russell Lasson
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Was the Varicam set to 24P or 60P? If it was 24P, then you should be able to redigitize it over HDSDI or Firewire at 24P. If your footage has duplicate frames in a pattern of repeating one frame twice and then the second frame three times, then the Varicam was set to 24P.
If it was shot at 60P (no duplicate frames) then you should talk with your post finishing how on what to do.
-Russ
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You might try increasing the number of real-time audio tracks in the user prefs from 8 to 12 or 16.
-Russ
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I’ve had to switch back and forth between 5.1.4 and 6.0.2 for some projects and I can’t say that FCP is more stable in one than the other. But whenever I’m in 5.1.4, I keep trying to do things that I can do in 6.0.2 which makes remember how much I like the FCP upgrade.
-Russ
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[Peter Hitchcock] “Whats your expierience working with HDV versus DVCPRO HD at 4:2:2. “
Rendering HDV – bad
Rendering DVCPROHD – great
Coloring HDV – bad
Coloring DVCPROHD -better-Russ
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You might also consider the following monitors:
JVC DT-V24L1DU
Panasonic BT-LH2600W
Ecinema FX seriesThe price range for these are about $3000-$4500. They’re all 24″ monitors or larger.
I looked at a Sony Luma series monitor about a year ago and it looked horrible next to the Panasonic BT-LH1700W.
Now you need to realize that I currently don’t own any of these monitors. About two years ago I found a pair of Sony CRT PVM-20L5 monitors and they’ve been great.
-Russ
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You might also consider the following monitors:
JVC DT-V24L1DU
Panasonic BT-LH2600W
Ecinema FX seriesThe price range for these are about $3000-$4500. They’re all 24″ monitors or larger.
I looked at a Sony Luma series monitor about a year ago and it looked horrible next to the Panasonic BT-LH1700W.
Now you need to realize that I currently don’t own any of these monitors. About two years ago I found a pair of Sony CRT PVM-20L5 monitors and they’ve been great.
-Russ
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With interfaces like the AJA IOHD including timecode in and out, hopefully we see progress on the FCP side of things in the future.
-Russ
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As long as they have the right deck it play it, they can edit the footage. If you footage was shot originally 23.98, then you made a tape master to 1080/60i, the tape master will have a standard 2:3 pulldown.
If the company in Ireland digitizes the tape at 60i then they could use cinema tools to remove the 2:3 pulldown to restore the 24P file. The next step would be to use cinema tools to conform the 24P footage to 25P. This will speed the footage up by 4%, but it’s a generally accepted practice and is really nice because it keeps the quality high by not modifying the image, but just changing the number of frames it plays per second.
-Russ
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Don’t upgrade to 7.3 as that will cause more problems. I’m not sure why it would be doing that in 7.2. You should post in the P2 forum to get more answers.
-Russ
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There’s been problems with P2 footage and QuickTime 7.3. Your problem could be related.
-Russ