Hey, thanks for the info! I'm leaning closer toward the A1. Just went out and picked up Stu Maschwitz's book (DV Rebel's Guide) and want to read more about what he says about 24F. He says, of the two, having 24P is more important than having HD, but the way he words it, it's unclear whether he thinks 24F qualifies as 24P. I'll keep digging. Thanks again. Good to see the passion re: the A1.bballplaya283 said:
Apocalypse Express, A1 - SD - (sorry!)
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Drew Ott
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What I was referring to was when you downconvert to SD from HDV source material. For some reason if I edit that (24f material) on a 24p timeline, I see little interlacing lines. I'll post a picture to show what I mean.
Actually... I think I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure the reason I was seeing interlace lines was because I watched it in preview mode in Vegas. I just watched some of my downconverted footage and it looked fine.
Elton
Veteran
bballplaya283 said:
A reason you may be seeing interlace lines in your downconvert of HDV 24F (which is a 24 fps-only stream) to SD 24F is because the A1 only downconverts with pulldown to 29.97 via firewire. You are likely capturing with pulldown, but Vegas may be extracting it on the fly for you if you're not seeing it in an SD timeline.
It doesn't downconvert via firewire as an "advanced pulldown" DV stream, which is a mode you can select to shoot and record in SD 24F DV-only. It's the same as the DVX in SD origination, however...downconverting HDV 24F to SD means interlace pulldown is added. This is a strong reason to stick with HD editing in order to edit 24F HDV in a 24p timeline, and do the downconvert later through software.
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PaPa
Major Contributor
"ou can set the camera, via a menu setting, to output SD on firewire. This means you can capture as straight SD DV format and not worry about processing or downconverting HDV at all.
The alternative is to capture and edit HDV and then export to an SD format after editing. This will give you slightly better results.
For delivery on DVD, you would export to MPEG2 720x480 with widescreen aspect ratio. If this looks squeezed on a 4:3 TV, you need to set the DVD player to output as letterboxed video."
this is the best explanation that was available on the forums, but its not detailed enough to help me out.
When i go into PP2 and click capture, i dont have to option in camera to do the downconversion or anything.
please someone give a more detailed step by step instructions.
The alternative is to capture and edit HDV and then export to an SD format after editing. This will give you slightly better results.
For delivery on DVD, you would export to MPEG2 720x480 with widescreen aspect ratio. If this looks squeezed on a 4:3 TV, you need to set the DVD player to output as letterboxed video."
this is the best explanation that was available on the forums, but its not detailed enough to help me out.
When i go into PP2 and click capture, i dont have to option in camera to do the downconversion or anything.
please someone give a more detailed step by step instructions.
Elton
Veteran
With the A1 in VTR mode:
--push the menu button
--Select "Signal setup" (and do this with firewire unattached to the camera)
--Scroll down to "HD DOWN-CONV
--The item should say "off" by default. Select it and choose "On"
--Select letterbox on if you want to capture and edit as 4x3 letterboxed SD. If not, just leave it off and the camera will output "squeezed" anamorphic SD that you are supposed to unsqueeze in post, or encode for DVD as 16x9 anamorphic. (this is what I almost always do.
--You should now be able to capture into ppro as a normal dv device, but your 24F footage will now be 29.97 with pulldown already introduced in the footage. Edit and capture as normal DV.
--push the menu button
--Select "Signal setup" (and do this with firewire unattached to the camera)
--Scroll down to "HD DOWN-CONV
--The item should say "off" by default. Select it and choose "On"
--Select letterbox on if you want to capture and edit as 4x3 letterboxed SD. If not, just leave it off and the camera will output "squeezed" anamorphic SD that you are supposed to unsqueeze in post, or encode for DVD as 16x9 anamorphic. (this is what I almost always do.
--You should now be able to capture into ppro as a normal dv device, but your 24F footage will now be 29.97 with pulldown already introduced in the footage. Edit and capture as normal DV.
PaPa
Major Contributor
k, what happens is i can open the menu when in VTR mode, chose HD down conversion on and so on, but when i connect it to the computer via firewire and open the capture window, both the letterbox and downconversion items in the menu get Grey and i cant use them. Why does this happen?
PaPa
Major Contributor
well, the only way i can watch the footage in premier pro 2 is through the capture window, and once its in capture window, either it will give me a message saying device is not on, or restart device.
But just once im in the capture window, both of those menu options get greyed, so i cant even watch it unless its straight HDV
But just once im in the capture window, both of those menu options get greyed, so i cant even watch it unless its straight HDV