Skip Cercelletta
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thank god someone gets it. there is simply no reason today that we need to keep dragging this antiquated system along any longer for this very reason.. confusion! just simply use 24p like they did in the 1930’s and call it a day. it’s not extremely difficult to understand one number 24, not 23.976, not 23.98 which no one is too sure if it’s the same or not. in reality it’s not, a simple math class would confirm this. why must we habitually drag this nonsense along. the english never put themselves through this painful experience 25 in 25 out, done! from this point forward i’m using straight 24p timebase, audio and timeline and finally be known for something in hollywood besides a janitor!!!
ps: i’ve listened to thousands of explanations as to the reasons for this madness from vacuum tubes to boulders but after listening to the reasons i now know why we are still stuck with insane system. philo farnsworth, the “real” father of television, … ripped off, poor man, started with 24 frames, made sense to him because film was 24. unfortunately it worked but didn’t work. the phosphor in those days wouldn’t stay excited in-between frames and would pulse driving people nuts, not to mention epileptics, so he went to 30 of no other reason than to see if that frame rate would cause less of an issue and it did but not enough to solve the problem. long story short fields came into play and that now brings us to the dewey decimal system we labor under today. after the war, that would be the second out of many, muntz sold millions of black and white sets to returning soldiers at about the time color was about to come out. the powers that be at the last moment figured out that the old b&w sets couldn’t understand the color signal and basically saw nothing; sort of like the trillion dollar hubble telecope with a lens they tested in space and not on the ground. any school boy thats ever gone fishing could have understood refraction, apparently not. on with our nightmare. to solve their problem they came up with the idea to clip 3k worth of a frame to trick the black and white tv’s into thinking they were receiving a b&w signal and it worked. fast forward 45 years after we walked on the moon 6 times and drove cars around, we are still stuck with this fairy tail that americans can’t view hd without a couple thousands of a frame takin’ out… sweet jesus help us all. -
FOX TV’s Arrested Development for starters
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A little deceptive to me, shoot it on a 70k camera and not really tell you. What’s the point? If I wanted to see the varicam I’d watch a Fox TV show or go on Panasonic’s site and view the cell phone commercial, really!
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Did she say what it was shot on????? I see it’s a 200 promo spot, I see it’s DVCPRO HD, but what “camera” was it shot on?
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Thanks for all your posts first off. What I’m trying to do, I guess I didn’t get my point across that well. I ‘m trying to jam the camera with a MOTU Traveler so I can have better audio quality 196kH 24-bit, that CD stuff is getting a bit old for me. The Traveler will jam to anything on any in port you care to use. My thought was if the firewire is live when you shoot then TC sync should be as well going down the pipe. I know about the TC Slate we use them and have been using them since their inception. The slate is good to jam the MOTU but I still will have only the starts with TC and will always have to go back to the tags for ref.; now that would be getting old fast in the first order, unless there is some way to start the TC I see in FC and the rest would auto/in the entire clip. I’m not that familiar with FC. Worse come to worse I will slate for ref then bring in the audio and sync with PIC and lock, just like the Movie-ola! Just a pain in the nose is all. Sad to see only USB for the 200/ happens to be the only thing MOTO has no input for. JAN?????
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Thanks’, I’ll have to look into it. Jan may have the answer if she happens to read this post.
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I don’t think that’s totally correct; is firewire not sending out TC? How else would it show up on the NLE? I’m thinking of getting MOTU’s Traveler https://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/traveler/ for recording the audio. CD quality audio is a little how u say.. junkie…. This box, so they say, will take any input and slave that sig to TC. I just thought now as I type, or try to type. that TC must be on the wire out to the computer. Well worse come to worse I’ll just go back to the old days and use a pair of sticks. Y did Panasonic even bother to put DV into the camera, could not you just record to the P2 card if you needed to go back to the past. I could have used that extra storage space in case I ever go back to smoking and need to hide my pack of smokes.
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Don’t know what your issue is but I think I can figure out you problem on the easy setup “jumping around”. When you go into setup and select a codec or what ever, and close the window then go back into it, you will think you have gone to a different setting, but as you will see it’s just the default deal, kind-of strange but it’s really on what you have set it to be. Well it appears to be on mine, but I know what as you speak.
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Thinking of getting a Panasonic 200 in the fall but one thing I can not figure out is this. Why is there 23.98 720p but no such thing as SDI 23.98 720p. Do you always have to output 1080 24p to have something. How do they shoot & air 720p at fox without involving SDI. New at this HD stuff. I thought it funny that Panasonic gave me a DVD that had 720 23.98p to view on FinalCut 5 but I never got to output to my NTSC Sony 800 line, but could get it to work on my computer. After going to NAB B.M. told me it’s apples issue, not the boards. Never could figure out the easy setup for it . Does anyone have the settings? I have MAC d2 G5 2-gig ram 4:4:4 board: any help
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Will the clips match up on their own when downloaded to the computer “FCP5” or is an “manual thing” yuk, I.E. you have to go and fetch them and put em together on the time line. While I’m at it, will I be able to put the P2 card directly into my Apple powerbook pcimci slot and download it that way? Your option is a bit cost prohibitive. Will the card have to be erased in the computer, or does it have to be done in the camera, or both?/ done WHU