[Simon Jaquemet]

Hmm. Difficult. I think the preset in Avid xpress pr hd is 23.98.
Try setting the 1200 to 59.98 sytem freq and then capture. If you have in-camera sound, there should be no problem. I think it’s also possible with external sound. Just check the avid manuals. If you shoot film in ntsc land it’s the same. Telecined tapes are on 23.98 and sound is in 24. I’m sure there is a workflow for this.
Avid takes only variable fram rates of 60 fps or 30 fps into 23.98 projects and converts it. If you had other frame rates you have to go over the panasonic frame rate converter.
On my project I converted all variable fps shots to 25p (24p in your case).
Greets

[Simon Jaquemet]

I think so. I don’t know the AJA in detail.
On my movie we worked with Avid MC Adrenaline and Avid DS Nitris. All over SDI and HD-SDI.

[Simon Jaquemet]

Hello

I think digitizing to dv compression over firewire was not a good idea.
I would use the SDI input of the kona. You have to set up the 1200 to output downconverted SD/NTSC on the SDI out. You should capture with pulldown removal in order to get a 23.98p sequence.
Also check if the camera was set to 60Hz or 59.98Hz. If it was set to 60Hz you have some serious problems.
You could also digitize over firewire with the Panasonic DVCPRO HD 24p capture preset. 720/24p doesn’t use much more space than DV.
Your sequence should then be perfect to do an online in 1080/24p with the Kona card using the upconversion feature of the 1200.
I hope this helps.
I finished a short film shot on Varicam with a offline/online workflow in 25p on Avid systems. Everything worked fine. But after the online i realized, that some shots were shifted by one frame. Make shure to check every shot in the online against the offline reference.
Greetings

[Simon Jaquemet]

I recently finished a project shot on varicam at 25p. We worked with avid, but it should be the same on fcp. If you only need a digibeta master you can set the 1200 deck to output a downconverted PAL 25p signal on the SDI output. The quality is perfect for a PAL master and you can work with firewire800 drives. You could then still do an online in HD quality later if you need it. The good thing on the 1200 deck is that it up- or downconverts footage shot at 25p over 60p to Pal 25p or 1080 25p and outputs it on the SDI or HDSDI.

Hope this helps.