[Sara Iyer]

Thank you for your response. A couple questions — is there ANY way to shoot 24p onto tape? I directed/edited a film last year and my DP told me he shot 24p, and the footage was all on tapes. I’d have to double check the footage to see if it really was 24p but I thought it was…

Second question, you said that with a P2 card I can shoot 60 fps which is about 2.5X slow motion. Then can I set the fps to 48 instead so I get 2X slowmo? On second thought this sounds like a stupid question — but I figured I would ask it anyway. Haha. I suppose I should get ahold of the camera soon because I can probably figure a lot of this out if I can see it in person.

Thanks so much,

-Sara

[Sara Iyer]

This worked amazingly… everything is synced! Thank you!

[Sara Iyer]

Thank you so much! I will try this when I get home. Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking making an mpeg 2 and no quicktime. But I am older and wiser now. Or at least older.

Thanks again,

-Sara

[Sara Iyer]

Thanks! I will see if the director has the budget for that. Oh if only we all used the same format. Maybe someday 😉

[Sara Iyer]

Yeah that’s what I figured…

thanks for replying though

[Sara Iyer]

are you getting an error message or is it just not there when you view the tape?

[Sara Iyer]

also, just want to specify both video and audio are required to be uncompressed. Yet it still has to fit on a dvd-r (the data file, not a dvd with a menu or anything). This is about 6 minutes long so I’m hoping it shouldn’t be too hard to get it down to size. The first two exports (quicktime and quicktime conversion) were 7 and 9 gb each, respectively. The mpeg (compressor export) was much smaller but like I said, not great quality.

Let me know if you need my system specs. It is a different comp than the one in my profile.

[Sara Iyer]

Sometimes this happens because you did not stripe your tape. What this means is, you record black, uninterrupted, on your whole tape, laying down the timecode for the whole thing. If you don’t do this, every time you turn off your camera and then turn it on again to film more, the timecode resets itself to 00:00:00, thus having two instances of the same timecode on your tape.

However, I have seen this happen with people who have striped their tapes, so I don’t know exactly why it happens in those instances.
Try striping (just put it in your camera, and record something for an hour uninterrupted).
If it still doesn’t work, just press play and use the capture now function.

Supposedly, if you set fcp to “make new clip” upon timecode break (in your settings) it will create a new timecode for those after a break. But I’ve never seen that work, for some reason.

[Sara Iyer]

Thanks for the suggestion! It looks a bit better on the monitor, however there is still a little bit of shimmer and on the black and white images there is some sort of coloring or rainbow effect going on in certain areas…. Could this “rainbowing” be due to the quality of the monitor?

It does look better than on the canvas though, thanks for the help

[Sara Iyer]

Hi,
Thanks for replying so quickly. The images where the shimmer is most pronounced are 2473×1677, 2272×1704, and 2549×1848….. pretty big. I tried the motion blur but it didn’t do anything. I’ll try playing around with the motion blur, maybe increasing it to a certain point, and see if that works. If you have any more suggestions, keep ’em coming 🙂