Client gave me some 24pNative footage....

[editblog]

I have a client who passed me some 720 24pN footage. I have it working fine in the Final Cut timeline but from my research it looks as if to view it out firewire on my external monitor I need some kind of 3rd party HD card. Is this correct? I can send it out firewire and it becomes letterboxed but only displays the current still frame. I wasn't sure if FCP was supposed to insert some kind of pulldown for viewing. Also.. will I be able to make an mpeg and burn this to a dvd?

Thanks for the response. It's a truly amazing image...

[nsoltz]

You could send it out Firewire if you have a Panasonic HD1200A (soon to be 1400) deck and then monitor to an HD monitor (component or SDI depending upon monitor and deck configuration). You could also monitor HD out via a capture card and then component or SDI to monitor, depending upon monitor. That might also allow for simultaneous SD downconvert. I have a Kona 2 and AJA HDP box, which allows SDI->DVI conversion to display on any monitor or HDTV with DVI. Check out the upcoming Matrox MXO, which will take DVI output from your video card and convert to a high-quality HD signal with SDI as well as DVI out. In short, to monitor HD, you need HD gear. This topic has been covred rather extensively on all of the various boards.

Ned Soltz

[nsoltz]

And yes, FCP will restore the pulldown for playback.

[HVXguy]

And yes you can use compressor to export MPEG2 for DVD, and that looks awesome!

[editblog]

Thanks guys for the answers. Since getting this footage I've been doing a lot of research and I agree that if you want to edit HD.. get HD gear! I don't think anyone thought this through when choosing the HVX200 to shoot. Thankfully it is just a test as we are all learning.

Thanks again for the replies.

[nsoltz]

Not to belabor the point, but I have been writing all along both on various web sites and in my writings for publication that the real challenge in the new low-cost HD world isn't acquisition but monitoring and to some degree delivery.

Ned