How do I ingest 480p 60?

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heartajack

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I've been looking around the site for a while and can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

I have a JVC HD100u and was wondering how to get HDV 480p 60fps into Final Cut Pro. I can't find any presets for it and I couldn't figure out how to make my own preset. Has anyone been ablet to do this?

Greatly appreciated if anyone can help me out.
 
You need to capture the raw .M2T with either DVHSCap (Free) or use a firestore (DR-HD100/Citidisk HDV) when shooting.

Once you have the .M2T, you need to use MPEG Streamclip (Also Free).

If you want to use it with other 720P footage, you must Up-Convert the file to 1280x720P and you must pick an Intra-Frame Codec, like AIC, if you want to Conform the clip to 24P.

If not, and you want to edit SD in 60P, any codec (DV/DVCPRO NTSC) will do fine. Just pick the codec of choice and export the clips. Import them into FCP and make sure the timeline matches the clips settings.

If you choose to Conform to 24P, then you must take the resulting upscaled file (and make sure you leave the frame rate at 60/59.94 in MPEG Streamclip) and bring it into Cinema Tools. Conform the clip to whatever frame rate you want and you have your slow motion.

Once FCP 6 comes around, this workflow will be a little easier since you can use ProRes 422 and bring that into whatever timline res/codec/framerate you want. Either way though, FCP will not ever capture 480/60P HDV. They are working on the HD200/250's 50/60P which should be out soon.
 
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Slow motion is exactly what I wanted to try out. Thanks for the input. Would software like Lumiere or HDVxDV work, for getting the .M2T files?
 
Well...I can't seem to find that app anywhere. I tried to download the apple FireWireSDK, which supposedly has DVHSCap bundled inside, and it requires a login. Any idea where I can find it?
 
awesome. It really is a rather "unknown" feature of the HD100/110. I think the Upressed footage from HDV 50/60P SD looks VERY good for SD. Especially the 50 since there is more resolution. When dealing with under-cranking, it suffices.
 
I had trouble capturing (or actually converting) 480P60 from a GR1 with HDVxDV.

When I converted it to DV i got a few frames of video and the rest of the clip was a white frame.

MPegStreamClip did a good job of converting this clip.

I think in the future if I need to capture any 480P60 HDV I'll just use DVHSCap and MPegSTreamClip for the entire process.

I'll note that this path leaves a little less post-processing for me going to DV.

With HDVxDV I think you get more of the original information but I had to use a lot of Flicker Filter to make the 720P footage not "stand out" when cut with DV originated footage. I'm cutting a 2 camera shoot where I used my DVX (@ 30P) and the second camera was a GR1 which got left in 720P30 HDV mode. . .

Shots thru HDVxDV show a lot of fine detail, it appears the DVHSCap to MPegStreamClip path does some blending which cuts down on aliasing. Fine if you're going SD, like I said it really helped me because the aliasing of the HDVxDV footage (downconverted) was a little out of hand! ;-)
 
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