Sean Oneil
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All you do is Print to Video and press the record and play buttons on the 1200A. It will record the timecode coming from FCP. The only menu settings you need are the ones to select Firewire for the input.
Sean
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I was always able to output TC over firewire to both our DSR-1800 and our AJ-HD1200A. If you set device control to FW instead of RS232 on the deck, it should see and record FW timecode (even though you’re not actually controlling it).
Alternatively you can hook up a consumer DV camcorder and it should just work (provided you are doing miniDV tape and not DVCam tape).
Sean
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Then it’s your VTR settings that need to be changed. Make sure it is set to external regen.
Sean
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You can’t output timecode from Print to Video unless it’s Firewire.
Sean
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Use TechTool Deluxe and run a memory test.
Sean
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[Chris Borjis] “yes, and before I knew much about it, I would dismiss it automatically because of that fact.
But after actually looking closely at it, doing generation loss tests, testing compositing round trips: FCP to AE to FCP and also reading about Walter & Shane’s successes, I decided that full raster is a non-issue.”
I know a camera operator who swears by upconverted DV50. He claims it looks better than HD. And in the case of comparing it to HDV, he’s probably right. Anyway, it’s interesting that he happens to own and operate a Panasonic DV50 camera.
Sean
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If you figure this out, please let me know. AFAIK you can’t do this in FCP.
Sean
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I haven’t seen other topics specific to ProRes 1080i (other than this one) except for people trying to do it on PPC machines. I did a very large concert project using ProRes(HQ) 1080i from start to finish and it was fine. And this was before the 6.01 update. Sending to Color was a disaster, but that’s because I had created multiclips which Color cannot handle.
Just be aware the DVCProHD 1080i is only 1280×1080 (it downrezzes it from 1920×1080).
Sean
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[Chris Campbell] “Sean, could you elaborate on the prores settings that AJA got wrong?”
Sure. For 1080i ProRes, go into sequence settings and click the advanced button to bring up the QT settings menu. Make sure “Interlaced Top Field” is selected, and that 4:4:4 is not selected.
Sean
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My first Varicam project I made the same mistake of cutting in 60p instead of 24p.
The key is to recapture in 24p. Create a new 23.98 Varicam sequence. Then copy and paste your clips into this new sequence and then make the media offline. Then recapture using 23.98 Varicam settings. The way it works is confusing. The deck plays back at 60p, but Final Cut removes the redundant frames during capture.
I used Firewire from a AJ-1200A deck. But I believe a BMD card has Varicam settings so it can do the same thing.
Because you cut in 60p, your sequence will have bad 3:2 cadence. So when you recapture/rebuild in 24p, you’ll have to manually close up a 1-frame gap in between occasional edit points. Other than that, it will all come in perfectly. It’s by far your best solution.
Sean