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Thanks Stephen!
I’ll read that page and get back to you. To clairify though… I am rendering a 1080i sequence with white credits over a black BG using the Boris Roll tool in FCP. No footage yet. I am watching the renders on my computer monitor not an HD or a NTSC broadcast monitor, because I don’t have a HD card at home.

It always amazes me how impotant the tranfer of film and intial capture of native footage is. Yet time and time again I see this task left to assistant editors, who have no clue what the presets are for, or why it might matter down the road.

Thanks so much, I be in touch soon after I read that page.
Chris

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Ha!
Thanks Micheal! No such thing as 1080i huh? Tell that to my silly FCP settings. I double checked. 1080i. yeap makes no sence to me either.

Anyhoo.. Thanks for the vote of confidence on the AVID title roll tool. I imagine that I might be using this instead of my FCP roll, which by the way also looks pretty darn good as far as I can tell. Who knows what it will look like after I export it as an AVI or QT and then import it back in to AVID and lay it to HDCAM.

Chris

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Serge,
Do I need a ticket? Is there a guest list?
Chris

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Yo Zcats,

Thanks for the link, interesting stuff. The thing I am thinking is, that it is 23.98 1080i. Does the “i” mean interlaced? Or is all 23.98 stuff progressive. I imagine I am working in progressive. Film is progressive right? 24p means progessive right? So should I just ignore what I am seeing on my NTSC monitor and imagine it will look ok on a Barco projector? Hummm…

I did take Kevins advice and set my sequence to HDTV 1080i 10bit uncompressed. I can’t play it to my NTSC monitor realtime cause I don’t have a HD card.

I exported 2 files; one file as just FCPQuicktime using sequece settings, this file was 1.4 gigs. The 2nd file using; Quicktime conversion Animation codec at best depth. This file was only 550megs. Hummm, do you think I lost some quality there?

I first watched the QT convertion Roll with the Quicktime 7.0.1 player at half size, but still HD widescreen on my desktop. It drops alot of frames but the text totally holds together, Clean as a whistle. I guess I will not know for sure till I play off the AVID. Which I hope to hell has a HD card.

I then watched the FCPexported QT. It popped up a 720×486 window! Humm WHY? It played fine with less dropped frames and looked great on the computer screen, but definately not 1080i or widescreen.

I also exported the Roll out of QT as an AVI. Trying to antisipate problems on the Windows AVID side of things.

Fun Stuff. Chris

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Kevin,

Yeap it was DV NTSC that was giving me green weirdness. I just tried component video.. that look like poo too.
I’ll Try 10 bit now.

Thanks Chris

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Thanks guys! I found that Cow tutorial.. I’ll probally try them all. Have a nice day.
-Chris

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Thanks Matte!

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I don’t suppose you know how to get the Canon XL1 to read the timecode off the FCPHD timeline?
Thanks, Chris

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Darya,
Depends on who is broadcasting it. If its Discovery or PBS… They have supertight standards. If its HGTV or MTV-4… well, not so much. Most of the time when I’m color correcting everything is WAY illegal to get it to look film like. But it does not air on NTSC-TV. So I don’t have to worry about it. BUT! I have read that if the color info is overloaded it can interfere with the audio subcarrier and make the sound distorted.. I’ve never seen this myself. But it is writen. Maybe they were talking about VHS tapes…?
You can always get the look you want and then run the Broadcast Safe Filter on it…
Chris

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Is your camera in VCR mode?