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Re: Field dominance when text and graphic for pal! -to digibeta.
by Rafael Amador on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:56:49 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi Max, Pal DigiBeta is Upper first. NTSC lower. cheers, rafael www.nagavideo.com
Re: Field dominance when text and graphic for pal! -to digibeta.
by adam taylor on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:56:21 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
In PAL - always use upper field first. The only time this is otherwise is if you are working in DV, but as you are going to digibeta...then definitely upper (or odd). adam Adam Taylor Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista Charac
Field dominance when text and graphic for pal! -to digibeta.
by Max Christensen on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:34:34 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I feel kinda stupid asking this question now. Especially after working with this for over a year. But.. I've been looking trough the net, for the best field-dominance when doing PAL digibeta sequences. In the final cut pro setup. Upper or lowe
Importing from AE
by Daniel d'Avoine on Aug 17, 2009 at 7:54:32 am
in the AVID Editing Forum
(i have also posted this in the AE section) Hi I am currently undertaking a project were i have to export some corrected footage, removing a television screen from a shot, back to avid from where it was captured. There is an issues that the int
Exporting To Avid issues
by Daniel d'Avoine on Aug 17, 2009 at 7:54:06 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi I am currently undertaking a project were i have to export some corrected footage, removing a television screen from a shot, back to avid from where it was captured. There is an issues that the interlacing is flicker whatever field i export it
Re: Kona 3 downconversion timecode slip
by gary adcock on Aug 13, 2009 at 11:40:54 pm
in the AJA Kona Forum
[Joey Burnham] "Working with 1080sf23.98 uncompressed 10 bit material. When I downconvert to digibeta ntsc my video is not frame accurate... Usually my video/audio comes in about 4 frames earlier than it should, but this number can vary." All
Kona 3 downconversion timecode slip
by Joey Burnham on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:55:24 pm
in the AJA Kona Forum
Hi All. Working with 1080sf23.98 uncompressed 10 bit material. When I downconvert to digibeta ntsc my video is not frame accurate. I am assemble editing. Usually my video/audio comes in about 4 frames earlier than it should, but this number can v
Metadata not surviving export
by Christian Case on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:46:45 pm
in the Automatic Duck Forum
My shop has used AD without issue for a number of years now, but recently, perhaps as of last Wednesday, our 3.06 exports, regardless of source material, lack metadata and timecode. Nothing has changed in our capture or deck settings, but the html fi
Re: The war on Final Cut Pro!
by walter biscardi on Aug 12, 2009 at 10:19:46 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Bob Zelin] "I was in the linear editing business before AVID started. Everyone thought that AVID was a joke - "professionals use linear equipment, AVID is junk"." I can attest to that one. Back in 1993 I believe I was taught Avid at CNN and most
Re: Why is Timecode not capturing?
by Oliver Petz on Aug 12, 2009 at 2:31:21 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
for all the people who have the same problem, here the answer from the BMD-Support: Thanks for the information. Interestingly enough, another tech was perusing through this email and mentioned that this is a bug that has been logged. It app
Re: Premiere CS4.1 driver support on OS X?
by Bartek Skorupa on Aug 12, 2009 at 11:24:36 am
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
I am using Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut with BM and Avid with its MOJO. Previewing in Premiere CS4 using BM: Set the preferences of BM (In system Prefs) to show extended desktop on your video monitor. Restart mac. Launch Premiere and
Export problems - Interlaced headache
by Johnie Stanley on Aug 12, 2009 at 7:42:56 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
Hi all, New to this forum, very helpful so far so cheers! I have a project with Digibeta PAL footage (captured Uncompressed 8 bit) and some DV PAL clips already digitised and given to me. Sequence setting match the Uncompressed 8 bit footage a
Avid Mac to Premier CS2
by John MacKinnon on Aug 11, 2009 at 11:21:02 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
I have just completed a shoot on DigiBeta. Have access to an Avid running on Mac OS 10.5. I would like to digitize on this to my 3TB G-Raid3 (arriving soon)with a view to offlining on my PC (XP) using Premier CS2. Should I format the G-Raid3 to N
Re: how to compress to DVD for TVs and progressive monitors
by Daniel Low on Aug 10, 2009 at 3:00:37 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
[dan freshman] "All the footage I have uncompressed is at 29.97 interlaced on digital beta" It's worth mentioning that DigiBeta uses a 2:1 compression ratio, it's not uncompressed. D1 and D5 are uncompressed. _____________________________________
Re: how to compress to DVD for TVs and progressive monitors
by Daniel Low on Aug 7, 2009 at 9:09:20 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
Digibeta is great but it does not come close to whatever they used for BadBays (probably film shot at 24 progressive frames) Any desktop compression application; compressor, episode or procoder for example, are some way off the capabilities of wha
Re: how to compress to DVD for TVs and progressive monitors
by dan freshman on Aug 7, 2009 at 8:18:34 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
I'm sorry to be beating this subject to death, but i'm looking for advice for encoding settings for DVD. My files are currently in photo jpegs 720X486 ntsc. But I have access to digibeta uncompressed footage of most of my material as well. Using a bl
Re: J-3 not getting embedded audio
by walter biscardi on Aug 7, 2009 at 1:40:37 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Aaron Neitz] "We rented a J-3 to load Digibeta. Getting picture over SDI, but not audio. Gone through the menu 4 times and not seeing anything that would be causing the problem. " As long as the Kona 3 is set up for embedded audio input, not sure
Kona3 1080 to 525i Down-conversion is squeezed - Help!
by Nook Kim on Aug 7, 2009 at 12:30:04 pm
in the AJA Kona Forum
Hi everyone - I'm trying to output a 1080 23.98 sequence converted to 720x486 (525i) 29.97 for DigiBeta printing, but noticed that the output is squeezed. So I did a bit of test as following: 1. Drop the 1080 sequence into a 720x486 sequence:
Re: duplicate frame working in 720p 50 fps problem
by Jeremy Garchow on Aug 6, 2009 at 8:28:13 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Why put it in a 50fps timeline first? SImply do a real time downconvert to Digibeta and you will get 25psf. Jeremy
J-3 not getting embedded audio
by Aaron Neitz on Aug 6, 2009 at 8:07:12 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
We rented a J-3 to load Digibeta. Getting picture over SDI, but not audio. Gone through the menu 4 times and not seeing anything that would be causing the problem. Missing something, or faulty deck? (i triple checked my Kona settings too, yes
online question
by thomas miller on Aug 6, 2009 at 11:53:17 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi Gotta online and my timeline consist of mixed material - tif, digibeta, dv ect. The trick is that ONLY the dv is to be changed to Proress. Any sugestions on how I do that the easiest way? Cheers Thomas
HD formats, there's PAL here too
by Neil Sadwelkar on Aug 6, 2009 at 4:18:32 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Aaron Neitz] "98% of 24p media is actually 23.976 media, and 98% of workflows should conform to that." Hang on a minute. In many NTSC countries, a large part of HD media at 24fps is expressed as 23.976. But where did the 98% come from? 98% of all
Sell DigiBeta DVW-a500p
by Sebastian Klein on Aug 5, 2009 at 8:51:56 am
in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum
Hallo zusammen, I offer for sale of our Sony TriANGEL-a500p studio recorders to. - Digital Betacam Recorder / Player - 10-bit recording - 4 audio channels (independently editable) - Sdi to embed. Audio I / O -- YUV, Y / C and CVBS in / ou
Re: Final Cut Setup with Kona 3x
by Shane Ross on Aug 5, 2009 at 6:45:37 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Gerry Condez] "I have a Canon HV30 and tried capturing 1080i, connected to the firewire in front of the G5." OK...when you do that you are capturing via firewire, and not using the Kona card at all. The Kona card is a capture card. You attach d
Re: 23.98 tc to 29.97 DF tc: Or why the History Channel hates me...
by Shane Ross on Aug 4, 2009 at 6:04:20 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Read this: http://lfhd.blogspot.com/2008/10/timecode-calculator.html Either use the calculator, or use my method that I linked to in that blog post. This all stems from the need to deliver to History Channel an HDCAM 23.98 master at NDF, but a
Re: possible downconvert out sync issue
by Joe Procopio on Aug 3, 2009 at 2:31:11 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
everything was SDI...i was monitoring off the Digibeta record deck and listening to the deck through our Yamaha O3D mixer...composite out of the Digi, and analog audio out to the mixer. i'm going to to a simple pop test today to see where it may b
Re: possible downconvert out sync issue
by Arnie Schlissel on Aug 1, 2009 at 2:06:16 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
How did you connect the audio? For digiBeta, you should be able to use embedded audio in the SDI. That should maintain sync with the video signal, no problem. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/
Re: possible downconvert out sync issue
by Joe Procopio on Jul 31, 2009 at 4:45:40 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
so i'm thinking it is indeed a kona thing...i brought up the project and listened back through the digibeta and got the same result...but listening and monitoring the FCP, was correct. Broadway Video, NYC AVID/FCP editor/engineer
Multibridge Pro - Digibeta...not getting all sequence audio
by Phil Hopkins on Jul 30, 2009 at 2:20:46 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
Hi there, I'm laying off an Uncompressed 10-bit sequence to a Digibeta deck (DVW-500P) via SDI. My sequence has some bars & tone, a program clock then the program. The SIF is correctly selected on the deck. I set my In points up correctly, then
Decklink Extreme 3 Analog Audio Out Issue
by Dave Brewis on Jul 30, 2009 at 11:44:23 am
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
Hi, I'm trying to master my TV show to Digibeta, and have the following audio problem with my Decklink Extreme3, which I'm using to downconvert to SD PAL in real time. It's a FCP sequence (HDV1080i50). On A1 and A2 I have the left and right cha
1/2 v. 2/3
by Ken Harper on Jul 29, 2009 at 3:19:56 pm
in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum
We are currently using a Digibeta camera and are investigating the purchase of an HD camera. We recently produced a video similar to the Honda documentary series, http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_ni and have been told by our DP's that in order to ach
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Rob Alexander on Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36:27 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I think you're going to have to do this via sequences. You can capture the video to a separate file but the audio will come in as 4 channels on a single quicktime. I'd drop the 4 channel clip into a sequence, duplicate it 3 times (to make 4) th
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Johan Nordanfors on Jul 28, 2009 at 10:13:20 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
That would be 5 individual files, 1 video and 4 audio.
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Rob Alexander on Jul 28, 2009 at 10:07:46 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
So are you trying to achieve a quicktime containing 1 video track plus one audio track per language? i.e. 4 QTs or are you trying to get one quicktime containing just a video track with no audio and four individual quicktimes each containing one a
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Johan Nordanfors on Jul 28, 2009 at 9:46:49 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thanks for the suggestions. Now, if I understand you correctly, in order to do a quicktime export as you describe I need to drag every captured clip to the timeline, which is what I am trying to avoid. I was hoping there would be a way to get FCP (or
FCP- Edit to Tape - Freeze frames
by Jen Milano on Jul 27, 2009 at 8:22:37 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I am trying to export a NDF seqence to a striped Digibeta using the Edit to Tape feature. I am able to get picture and audio to tape, and even at the correct TC I specify. The problem lay in the fact that the first 3 frames of picture/audio are
Sonry SR closed captioning
by Kevin Reeves on Jul 27, 2009 at 7:55:54 pm
in the Sony SRW-5500, SRW-5800 Forum
Hello there, our post facility is starting to do closed captioning for High Def this week and we have never done it before. We have done standard def closed captioning for digibeta many times but we are not sure how to configure the SR deck correctl
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by John Pale on Jul 27, 2009 at 5:34:25 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Johan Nordanfors] "My issue is that fcp captures the audio files to one single file and to export each file from the timeline is quite time consuming given the rather large amount of media." You don't have to do that. If you set your sequence to
Re: HDCAM SR vs ProRes 4444
by Erik Lindahl on Jul 27, 2009 at 4:23:29 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I very much think ProRes 4444 will find it's way into different areas for sure, especially if it holds similar compression levels as HDCAM SR which is accepted as a high-end intermediate format. Given it holds similar quality as HDCAM SR, it will how
Re: HDCAM SR vs ProRes 4444
by Erik Lindahl on Jul 27, 2009 at 4:12:47 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Well one issue we have today is a lot of post-intense jobbs we do look worse in the end going down the Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit road than using Animation RGB (4:4:4 of course) even when our final output is Digibeta or 4:2:2 MPEG2 files (30 mbit i-fr
Re: HDCAM SR vs ProRes 4444
by gary adcock on Jul 27, 2009 at 3:14:24 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Erik Lindahl] "a) Film > Telecine > HDCAM SR > Uncompressed 10-bit 1080i50 in FCP b) Film > Telecine > HDCAM SR > Digibeta > Uncompressed 10-bit PAL FCP " OK Erik., both of these signals are Single Link 4:2:2 HDSDI signals. You will ga
Re: HDCAM SR vs ProRes 4444
by Erik Lindahl on Jul 27, 2009 at 2:18:50 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Very solid replies Gary! My first question is how well ProRes 4444 will perform in current established post-chains we deal with here when we scan film. We've used one of two workflows: a) Film > Telecine > HDCAM SR > Uncompressed 10-bit 1080i50
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Rob Alexander on Jul 27, 2009 at 2:14:05 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi Johan, It's been a long time since I tried to separate Audio and Video on capture as I found that a single AV quicktime file was more reliable but I think even that would leave you with one video file and one audio file containing your four tra
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Johan Nordanfors on Jul 27, 2009 at 11:54:03 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thanks Walter, that is an excellent answer. Unfortunately I utterly failed to communicate the problem properly. I am preparing media for a dvd project where I have 80 episodes of a TV show that each has 4 different language audio dubs (4 mono channel
Re: Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by walter biscardi on Jul 27, 2009 at 11:29:53 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
No, they're not muxed if you captured all four channels. They need to separated out in the timeline. You set up the timeline for four Channel Audio Output. Put your four tracks in the timeline. Assign each of the four tracks to a different
Capture to discrete audio files from digibeta
by Johan Nordanfors on Jul 27, 2009 at 11:22:09 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I have a bunch of digibetas with four channel mono audio on them that i need to capture to discrete audio files. All I have managed to get from FCP so far is one muxed file containing all four tracks. Is it possible at all to get separate file
Re: System Requirements for Editing XDCAM EX3
by rene hazekamp on Jul 26, 2009 at 9:39:03 am
in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum
Hi Rod It's workable as long as you stick to cuts only, no effects . I've edited 25 minutes programs (25 fps 1080p) on a double g5- 1.8- 2 GB ram. No problem, though the online was done elsewhere (pal sdi-digibeta). Actually there are some real
Re: HDCAM SR vs ProRes 4444
by Erik Lindahl on Jul 26, 2009 at 12:16:38 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Delivery is of course a different story all together. I primarily question ProRes as a true high-end post format. Advertising-delivery in Sweden now fully file-based. MPEG2, i-frame only @ 30 Mbit and WAV audio. Our Digibeta use has gone down a ton I
DVW-500 Digibeta Recorder
by Javier Ramirez on Jul 24, 2009 at 8:07:16 pm
in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum
I have this machine in good working order Hours reads Dr (r) 1781 Tape (r) 558 Th (r) 2008 S/N 10146 $9,793.00 OBO email or call 626 786 5542 located in Burbank CA
Best workflow for Digibeta to 720p/59.94 finish...
by Rob Wilson on Jul 21, 2009 at 11:51:01 pm
in the AVID Editing Forum
Hey everyone. Curious about the best workflow for editing footage shot on Digibeta to a finish in 720p/59.94 DVCProHD. I know it's kinda backwards, but the truth is we don't have any other option, the train has already left the station. Anyone car
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