24p

Edward wrote on 1/7/2006, 4:35 AM
my boss shot a spot with the panasonic dvcpro50 in 24p. when they captured it into avid, there were some frame glitches. they had to do some funky stuff to get it right.

does vegas capture 24p good, or will there be glitches? haven't tried it yet, since i haven't read the manual for the panasonic camera on how to connect with my pc. i know it's firewire, but there's a certain menu setting to allow it to communicate... anyway, separate issue.

holla back.

Comments

farss wrote on 1/7/2006, 4:50 AM
I think Vegas was the first NLE outside of maybe one esoteric Avid film cutting system to handle 24p. Certainly first off the block to support the 24p out of the DVX100. However in this case your biggest issue is going to be handling DVCPro50!
Do some searches, I know other here have got it to work.
DVCPro 50 is 4:2:2, definately an improvement on SP, pretty much Panasonics answer to Digital Betacam.
Other issue is, was this from the HVX200?
If so you have another hurdle, Vegas cannot handle the MXF wrapper :( There seems to be way around this too.
Bob.
David Jimerson wrote on 1/7/2006, 8:35 AM
In DV, there is NO NLE which handles 24p better.

The support of which farss speaks is something many of us are hoping for.
BarryGreen wrote on 1/7/2006, 4:12 PM
If you can get the DVCPRO50 data somehow into an AVI file, Vegas can handle it well. But Vegas doesn't include a DV50 capture application.

For a DV50 codec, Matrox provides one for a free download and it works fine in Vegas.
farss wrote on 1/7/2006, 5:17 PM
Now if there was some device that squirt the DVCPro 50 from the P2 cards down SDI we could dub it to DigiBeta that Vegas and just about every other NLE handles.
For good or bad DVCPro is a bit of an ophaned system down here, we used to have a large collection of decks but we had little call for them and when they did want one it wasn't quite what they wanted, what a pain.
Just to confuse matters further of course down here we could only use 25p / 25i.

Bob.
BarryGreen wrote on 1/9/2006, 12:46 AM
Well, you could get an AJA component-to-SDI converter and do exactly that...