[Sergio Deustua]

Thank you guys.

[Sergio Deustua]

Thanks Alex and Luke.

I believe I´ll take my chances with ProRes. Hope everything goes fine.

[Sergio Deustua]

Carsten,
I really apresiate your time and knowledge.
It looks that I will end working in 1080.
But, another issue:

the project Im just starting is for TV so, 1080 is Ok for that. But there are some real posibilities that this project will end in movie theatres, so I will need to do a transfer to film.
In this case,
will the 1080 will be a problem?

Thanks Carsten, Walter and everybody

[Sergio Deustua]

So my problem is the Blckmgc Multibriddge then?

[Sergio Deustua]

Thanks Gary,

But, what is the setting I must give to the 1200 deck and to FCP?

[Sergio Deustua]

Thanks Walter, is good to hear that.

[walter biscardi] “The Varicam cannot shoot 1080 so your material would have to be 720/25.”

I´m trying hard to capture 720p25 material shooted in Varicam at 25fps using the 1200 deck, throug Blacmagic Multibridge into FCP 6.0.2, but with no resoults at all. A couple of guys in the forums said that this is posible…

What Im doing is:

Option 1: Deck set to 25 HD frequency, SDI conection, “Blackmagic HDTV 720 p 25 Varicam” easy set up in FCP. Doesn´t work.

Option 2: Deck set to 59/94 frequency, PB format AUTO, SDI conection, “Blackmagic HDTV 720 p 25 Varicam” easy set up in FCP. Doesn´t work.

What am I missing?, Is it really posible to capture 720p25 material from Varicam?

Thanks again.

[Sergio Deustua]

Thanks Jeremy,

I did what that last post says, but it doesn´t work for me. If the deck is set to 59/60, and the FCP to 25, there is no way to comunicate them (for me at least).

[Sergio Deustua]

If I put the deck in 59/60, then I can´t capture in 25.

[Sergio Deustua]

Hi Jeremy,

The problem is the following:

If my deck is set up as 25 HD or 50i/25p frequency, then both menus 020 and 632 are disabled, they just don´t apear in the menu list. They only apear if the deck is set up with frequency 59/60. The onclusion I supose: there is no available 720p output if the deck is set up to 25fps.

Hope I´m missing something because I realy need to capture 720p25 from Varicam.
I trust the “HDTV 720 p 25 Varicam” FCP Easy Set Up is real.

Does anybody have ever cature 720p25 from Varicam?

[Sergio Deustua]

First I have set the deck to 25 HD. With that I have managed to capture in 1080i50, but can´t capture 720p25.
FCP has this Easy Set up setting wich I think is the one I need: Blackmagic HDTV 720 p 25 Varicam. But I can not capture nothing with this setting yet.

I have tried also to set the deck in 50i/25p frequency, but in this case the deck itself shows an error message and does not playback anything from the tape.

So, the question again is: does FCP can capture 720p25 from material shooted with Varicam at 25fps? and, if this is posible, how can I do it?

Thanks