Sean Oneil
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[Michael Gissing] “reading the ClipWrap blurb that Steve linked, it says “With ClipWrap, m2t files are immediately converted for native HDV editing in Final Cut Pro.” So are they are converted to 1440 x 1080? If so FCP can’t take advantage of native 1920 and you might as well shoot on tape.”
There’s no such thing as native 1920 HDV. And re-wraping doesn’t convert video. It just changes the file format without altering the video stream.
Sean
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Michael, Tyler was simply confused about the nature of HDV’s resolution. There is no such thing as a “true 1920×1080 HDV format” – all HDV is 1440×1080.
His real problem is that FCP doesn’t read M2T files, and his concern is to edit natively and not lose any quality (the way it works in Vegas) . The solution to this is what Steve, David, and myself suggested.
Sean
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It’ needs to be re-wrapped as a Quicklime movie. There are utilities that do this. The only one i know of offhand that works with HDV is here:
https://www.cineform.com/index.htm
Sean
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Like Shane said, don’t put the OS on the RAID drive.
Also, rather than a RAID with redundancy, you might want to look into having a Time Machine setup instead. That way you can keep backups of your OS and your media.
Sean
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I think the difference is that video cameras don’t have an actual real shutter. It’s just an electronic process that mimics one to control motion blur.
Sean
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DVCPro Frame Converter is probably the best thing to use in this scenario.
Sean
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I think shooting 60p one would still normally uses a shutter speed of 1/60th, same as NTSC 60i. 60p simply captures the whole frame once per exposure as opposed to one field per exposure. Using 1/120 wouldn’t make sense unless you were trying to shoot “120i” or something like that… I just looked at the Pannasonic page for the camera and it says 1/60th exposure time is the shutter speed for 60p.
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=94208&catGroupId=14569&surfModel=AJ-HDC27HAnyways, he probably had it dialed in for 24, which of course would screw it up either way. Thanks again for your help. We definitely won’t be making the same mistakes again!
Sean
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This is great information, thanks! I believe it was a P+S Technik.
What seems odd to me is that prior to 2000 or so, just about every single NTSC video camera ever made only shot at 59.94 fps (interlaced, but still the same shutter speed). One would think an old lens adapter would be designed for this, rather than newer video cameras capable of a film frame rate.
Sean
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Thanks everyone for the advice. The shooter shot at 60fps, not 24, since this is sort of like a virtual reality type deal. Perhaps the lens adapter could not keep up with that shutter speed. Shooting 60fps was actually my suggestion during pre-production, but I never realized what was involved in putting a 35mm lens on an HD camera (not that it’s my job to know this, I’m just an editor). I assumed the adapter was simply a different physical locking mechanism. I had no idea there were extra pieces of glass that fricking spin!?! Next type we’ll make sure they use an HD lens instead of 35mm adapter.
Sean
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Thanks Ben.
Sean