[Seb Ratcliffe]

Shooting at 15 fps is for the tilt & shift minaturisation effect.
Attaching large format lenses to regular sensor cameras gives this effect. Can’t be achieved effectively on regular camera set-up without heavy post. At 15 fps people, cars etc move like toys ie animated

I ‘need’ 25 fps because thats the only editing timebase in pal-land, which is why convert to the proxies, so don’t have to render everytime I do anything in the timeline.

But the real quandry is if when I reconnect back to the qt wrapper this is the best quality to create to tga sequence for the grade. ie its the orignal photos wrapped. Or should new proresHQ be reconnected to before created tga’s. It’s an image quality question I guess.

Thanks

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Thanks for the replies.
Final Cut does seem to work very well with mixed formats.
As time was of the essence ended up cutting everything in its native format in a xdcam 720p timeline, as in the breakdown it worked out we were going to use mostly this footage.
The only thing coded was the flipcam h264 to xdcam 1080p. (no xdcam ex in compressor)
Despite intial reservations and worries about drop frame warnings, everything was very smooth.
For the conform provided a 1080p tif seq for the xdcam/ flipcam footage, edl for the super8 on digi, and edl for the 16mm scan. This all went into baselight and the picture was graded at maximum quality.
Given more time I would have eased the worry and gone the prores route.
Cheers.

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Hmm. Maybe something wrong with plasma as well? Was playing back directly from camera not through card, though shouldn’t make a difference. Will wait till get new card then retry. If no joy its another warranty call.

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Slow to get back to this been out of the office on a job.

Walter – No actually cant get a picture onto plasma from the Z1 at 1080i50. Panasonic 50PH10, which is 1366 not 1920. Is there something wrong with it?

Bob – With test pattern signal only get b+w bars. NO color.
The Pb and Pr wires just cause a buzz on speakers, but have no effect on the picture.

Spoke to aja, who arent 100% whats wrong, think it might be the cable, and are going to send replacement card and cable. Which is great.

Thanks

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Hoping it was going to be something nice and simple.
Dvd/ vhs/ Z1 playback fine on plasma.
The card was only replaced in October.
For a moment thought it could be breakout cable, but that doesn’t explain the other playback options not working.
I’ll contact aja then, and post the solution for the record.

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Hello,

So back with the system. Tried this:-

“Quit FCP and the AJA Control Panel

Trash FCP’s prefs,

Trash the AJA Control Panel Prefs.

Launch Final Cut Pro. Do NOT open the AJA Control Panel

Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup

Choose AJA Kona LHe 1080i / 25 ProRes

Now do you see proper picture?”

Unfortunately, no joy. Don’t get a picture on either monitor, just fuzz.

Again, if I switch fcp playback to Kona 625i25, get picture but only on pvm, plasma goes black.

Any other ideas? Would be appreciated.

Thanks again.

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Thanks for the swift reply Walter.
Have tried with everything on the Aja panel out at 1080i25, and the sequence is ProRes 1080i25. No joy.

Something I forgot to mention is that in the fcp Audio/Video settings playback seems to have to be set to 625i25 8 or 10 bit to get a picture up at all. No other settings allow me to view on either of the monitors.

So with a 1080i25 seq (or other seq settings, such as dv) the panel set all to 1080i25 I get picture on Sony monitor and bad b&w interlaced on plasma – but only – through the fcp 625i25 Video playback.

Whats is going on?

Thanks again for all your help.

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Had some black space in timeline, so will try the black mixdown thing, and/ or entire video mixdown.

Couple of other things I forgot to mention.
At some point there was ‘cannot export from this bin’
and a quaratined omf thing. What is that?

Figured at 400 drive couldn’t do the write/ read speed needed for 2:1?

Will try to get drive reformated also.

Thanks again

[Seb Ratcliffe]

Tapco MIX 100 Ultra-Compact Mixer
Very small, has a fader for the main mix.
Behringer EURORACK UBB1002 10-Input Mixer.
This might be more what you are looking for. Compact, faders, cheap.
Behringer RX1202FX EURORACK Pro Rackmount 12-Input Mixer
Interesting option to place under monitor shelf, free up desk space.
Tapco MIX 220FX Compact Effects Mixer
Behringer Xenyx 1204
Behringer EURORACK UB1204-PRO.
Apart from the first one, all roughly same price point. https://www.dv247.com/icat/Mixing+Desks/2955/
Get more for your money than Mackie, maybe not as solid, but will get the job done.