Sean Oneil
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[Dave LaRonde] “2) go back to square 1, remove the pulldown from your 24p footage, and re-edit in 24p”
Are you sure re-editing is necessary? What if you use Media Manager’s “Make Offline” to conform the sequence to 23.98. And then use Cinema Tools to do a reverse telecine on all of the source footage. Then just reconnect the media. There will be a gap of a missing frame here and there, but just go through and pull them out.
Haven’t tried it, but wouldn’t that work?
Sean
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[chrispy] ”
Can the AJHD1200A playback a 720 tape and output as 1080 ?”I think so. You can download the manual for free from Panasonic’s website and look into it. Firewire related menu items are in the 800’s.
Sean
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Yes, you can capture 1080i DVCProHD tapes using Firewire.
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My studio has had a 9 camera (yes, nine) DVCProHD (yes, HD) multicam project going on for a while now. It’s a bit sluggish but it works just fine. Using an 8-disk SATA array stripped at RAID0 using Disk Utility.
Sean
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[JeremyG] “Granted, this is a PCMCIA slot, but my experience and knowledge tell me the an express34 card might get you a little better performance, but not much.”
Not sure where you get your info, but it’s not a little better performence. It’s a lot. PCMCIA is 132 MBps both directions, 66 MBps each way. Expresscard is 500 MBps total, 250 each way. Again, that’s not “a little” – it’s nearly a four times faster read speed.
Whether or not port multipliers come out anytime soon is anyone’s guess. But if you want, you could easily attach two 10k RPM drives and do a RAID0. That’s plenty for multiple streams of uncompressed SD or compressed HD.
Sean
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[JeremyG] “The SATA array is kind of vaporware at this point.”
Vaporware? What are you smoking and can I have some? 🙂 Here’s one of the many models you will see shortly:
https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2sm2-e/
Firmtek doesn’t specialize in vaporware. They are surely making them as we speak.As for creating a super-fast array, don’t be surprised if some of the upcoming cards support Port Multipliers, allowing eight drives at once on just two SATA ports. An ExpressCard bus is 300MB/s I believe. So that’s plenty of bandwidth for uncompressed HD.
Sean
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Dannie, I don’t know why you would want or need to record sound to a DAT. Any modern video camera records 48khz digital – the same quality as a DAT. That said, there are other situations where you need to put TC on an audio track.
I just cut a concert and ran into this issue. It was shot on five Varicams, plus a 6th camera which was HDV. The HDV camera doesn’t have TC in, so they put it on an audio track of the camera instead.
FCP does not support this directly like Avid does. FCP only reads TC from 9-pin or Firewire. Luckily there is a gadget that will take the TC from an audio track and places the TC on a 9-pin serial deck control. Thus allowing you to read the TC with Final Cut. Sorry but I forget what it’s called. Search this forum because I found out about it here at the cow.
Instead of buying it myself, I used an annoying workaround. I dubbed all of the camera tapes to Digibeta whilst plugging the AUDIO OUT from the camera into the TC IN on the beta deck. This added a real TC track. Then I captured both the digibeta and the HDV tapes into FCP. Then I synced them up manually and used “Modify->Timecode” to add the correct TC to the HDV media files.
Sean
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[Leo Ticheli] “Almost anyone can design an ergonomic box with a lens mount and a holder for a chip; the challenges faced to bring it to market are considerable. Getting the image off the chip in a form that is manageable and usable is no mean task. Storage is not the slam-dunk many believe and this is fundamental to success. Work flow must be simple, reliable, and universal.”
I kind of disagree with that. Dual HD-SDI output and that’s all they need to worry about on their end. The customer can take care of it from their using all kinds of solutions. And someone is sure to provide a simple, elegant solution.
Personally, I think Sony and/or Panasonic could easilly produce this kind of thing. But they are milking every baby-step of technology they can. The real money is in selling tape stock and becoming a common standard in facilities. Everyone wants to have the next Digibeta. Devices like Red which leaves the storage options universal open-ended is not what Sony and Panasonic would like to see.
Sean
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Yes, I hope this is for real. But if I were Sony, I’d be buying them out right now.
Sean
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[Martin Baker] ”
I’m not sure you’d find too many people who would agree with you Sean. There is always a balance to be struck between customisability and complexity and I reckon FCP has it about right at the moment.”I can’t accept that argument. How about one more option called an “Advanced Settings” button that has a whole list of custom settings? If you don’t want to click on it, don’t.
Sean