:) BEST WAY TO CAPTURE YOUR DVX FOOTAGE

[RomanJaquez]

Many questions has been raised on regards of how Pull Downs affect the video being captured into various non-liner editing software. The following question is very general yet specific to the subject… anyone with the right knowledge of DVX handling and capturing settings PLEASE HELP US “THE NOVICE” with this matter.

For FCP HD users:
What are the appropriate settings to be use in FCP before capturing footage recorded on dial: F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and/or F6?

And what is the best way to export the footage for each setting?

How does the pull down affect the video?

What are the various measures to be taken in order to avoid the fields being obstructive?

THANK U ALL, 4 UR PRICELESS HELP 2 ALL OF US WHO R STRUGGLING

 

[taubkin]

Re: BEST WAY TO CAPTURE YOUR DVX FOOTAGE

Man, you could really benefit from reading Adam Wilt's article on Pulldon, or Barry Green's soon to be released book.

The first question you must understand is that by outputting miniDV, your camera HAS to output a NTSC signal to tape, so, every stuff you have on tape will be in a NTSC signal that is 60i.

For starters: F1 to F4? No difference. All of them are standard, plain 60i, just the way FCP was meant to work with.

F5? Surprise: It's called 24p, but the signal is already a 60i signal made froma 24p capture using the same pulldown telecine uses when we see a film on TV. It does a great job of making a non stuttering conversion and has that good old "originated on film feel". It can also be captured by Final Cut pro without worries. It's the DVX's Automatic filmlook.

The problem with F5 is that you cannot come back from it's pulldown to true 24p without loss. This is due the pulldown scheme. So if, say I wanted to transfer a 24p image from the DVX to film, I wouldn't be able to. And that's a shame, since the CCD's do capture at 24p.

So they came with the 24pADV, or F6, that is the advanced pulldown. It don't make your 24p image playable on a NTSC set at first, but it is convertible bakc to 24p without loss, so you can enjoy 24p if you want to.

Problem is, you could apply the advanced pulldown in camera and have a stuttering image that could be salvaged back to true 24fps, but until the DVX was launched you'd need to use special software (used to edit real film) to be able to do anything with a true 24fps video. The good news is that you don't have to now, and in FCP this means that Cinema Tools now comes standard, integrated with the software as you install it. So basically, the workflow is as it follows: you capture the 24padv and remove it's advanced pulldown in FCP (sometimes in capture, othertimes, malually) and you can edit you material in a 24p timeline without worries. that way, you could send your material to be transefer to film or you could print your material to video and let your FCP apply the same pulldown your camera does in F5 when you convert your 24p edit to a 60i tape.

Hope that was clear enough!

 

[RomanJaquez]

Re: BEST WAY TO CAPTURE YOUR DVX FOOTAGE

That was good, Thank you taubkin
I'd experiment some more with the DVX and FCP HD; Hopefully I wont have more field problems.

I am interested in the book, perhaps Adam Wilt can himself give us a brief input for this post... kind of like a "sneak preview" of what to expect from the book. I'm looking forward for a copy.

Does anyone else want to add to what taubkin said?