Good DVCPROHD on Final Cut workflow article
Workflow With Panasonic HD and Final Cut Pro HD
There is one minor technical inaccuracy, in that the article states that only footage shot at 23.98 can be captured through firewire. In fact, it doesn’t matter what the frequency of the camera was. What matters is the frequency of the _deck_. If the frequency of the camera was 60Hz (meaning the 24 setting is actually 24, not 23.98), then the captured footage will be 0.1% slower than shot. Sync with external sources may need to be adjusted, but capturing *is* possible.
Otherwise, this is a good how-to.
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Andrew,
Undoubtedly someone from Panasonic has notified you of this already but just in case the 1200A is not an edit/record deck. While it may be possible to output a sequence to this machine it was not designed for editing. It’s primary design was for digitizing to non-linear edit systems. Of course the AJ-HD1700 studio VTR is the necessary deck to output to but it will set you back $60,000.00. So much for an inexpensive workflow.
Regards,
Phil
By Phil Parrish on 08.02.05 2:52 pm
Phil: It’s true that the 1200 deck isn’t an editing deck, meaning it can’t do insert or assembly editing. It is a perfectly good record deck for crash edits, however, and fortunately that is all that is needed in this case for outputing from Final Cut. Unlike in every other format I’ve tried, FCP will actually output embedded timecode in DVCPRO HD over firewire, so as long as the deck is set to take external timecode you end up with a perfectly usable master. Better in fact than using the 1700 VTR, since it re-imbeds the variable-frame flags in the output signal, so you can recapture the footage at 24 through firewire.
By Jesse on 08.02.05 4:39 pm
New subject. What are your thoughts on tri-level sync for post production HD. We have a few issues with our 1200A, AJA I/O and FCP5 and we were looking at a master Tri-level sync to stabilize our system. We only have one Varicam and we never do multi-cam HD.
Later,
Ray Palmer
Phoenix, AZ
By Ray Palmer on 08.06.05 5:41 am
What problems are you having? I think that tri-level shouldn’t be necessary, as everything should sync properly to black burst. (Well not the camera, but the 1200 and the I/O do.)
By Jesse on 08.06.05 10:05 am
I have question regarding capturing from the 1200A into final cut pro 5.1.1 via firewire. I’m watching my dailies on a 23″ apple display and it seems that audio is about 9 frames late. When recording from the deck w/headphones connected to the deck, audio seems to be in sync. any suggestion? deck settings to adjust for capture offset or fcp capture offset?
Thanks,
Charlie
By Charlie on 09.15.06 12:04 pm
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