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William Hooke
September 28, 2010 at 4:08 am in reply to: Possible Work-Around for FCP 7 Dropped Frames Bug

I have had similar dropped frames issues with FCP 7.0.2, on a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8GB RAM, CalDgit and dual eSATA RAID 5. Simple ProRes 23.98 1080P media + some XDCAM HD mixed in. No orange render bars, and still tripping up constantly.

We finally seemed to solve it today by unclicking “mirror on desktop” in playback settings. With no viewer to keep up on the computer, Kona 3 outputs fine to external SDI monitor (downconverted). Seems to be that the desktop video processing in FCP 7 is way buggy!
William Hooke
December 12, 2006 at 9:19 am in reply to: SD Editing of HDCAM 23.98P

David,

Thanks for the response. I was considering having them (the producers) downconvert everything to DigiBeta for higher quality (i.e., less compressed than DV50), but in the final online I’m not sure the less-compressed DigiBeta will be noticeably better than the DV50. The footage is mostly nicely lit interviews.
William Hooke
July 7, 2006 at 7:42 pm in reply to: 2/3″ XDCAMHD

I’ve heard through the grapevine at a well-known VAR close to Sony that the 2/3″ will be priced around $44K and record at a higher bit rate – 70mb/sec and be 4:2:2.
William Hooke
June 1, 2006 at 5:49 am in reply to: Panasonic HDX900 or HPC2000

Thanks, Gary for clearing all this up. I think the HDX-900 will work for me when it comes out in July (hopefully!). Trying to avoid buying a CineAlta.

Best,
Will
William Hooke
May 31, 2006 at 7:42 am in reply to: Panasonic HDX900 or HPC2000

Sorry, should have been more precise: my client nomrally needs HDCam at 1080psf 23.98. Can I do the same thing with the HDX-900, of course onto DVCPRO HD tape instead of HDCam?
William Hooke
May 31, 2006 at 7:35 am in reply to: Panasonic HDX900 or HPC2000

To add to the questions, can anyone verify if the HDX900 supports true 1080/24p (a la CineAlta) as opposed to 1080i captured at 23.98p?

I have a client who needs the above delivery requirements (1080/24p) but I’d rather buy and shoot with the HDX-900 then rent an F-900 if I could make it work seemlessly in post. For instance, as an alternative, could I convert a 1080/23.98p or pA to a 1080p/24 10-bit timeline in FCP or in combination with Kona 3 for output to D5? Again, the delivery requirements are 1080p/24. So I suppose I’m talking about a slightly different frame rate, as well as interlace versus progressive.

From the specs: “supports 1080 59.94i/50i/29.97p/25p/23.98p/23.98pA and 720 59.94p/50p/29.97p/25p/23.98p.”
William Hooke
April 11, 2006 at 8:59 pm in reply to: 720p line converted to 1080p

Thanks for the reply! The final delivery will be BlueRay DVD and they are saying that 1080/24p is the way to go for that.