Sony FX-1 HD to Panasonic DVX100 24p SD

aldo12xu wrote on 11/6/2007, 12:28 PM
I shot over 6hrs of footage in 1080i HD for a documentary a friend is doing. My friend has been shooting 24p SD with the Panasonic DVX100 and will be editing in 24p. I know there are a couple of approaches I can take to get the footage to him, but today at work I came up with this idea:

1. Set my FX-1 to downconvert the playback to SD 60i.
2. Connect a firewire cable from my camera to his.
3. Set his camera to record in SD 24p.
4. Press play on my camera, record on his.

My thinking is that my friend will have 24p downcoverted versions of my footage that he can readily capture and edit in perfect harmony with his own 24p footage. Any thoughts?

PS: We live at opposite ends of the city so we wouldn't be able to test this out right away.




Comments

farss wrote on 11/7/2007, 12:35 AM
I suspect you'll be sending him 60i SD out of the FX1 and I doubt the DVX100 will do a 60i to 24p conversion as it records to tape so he'll only be able to record 60i. That's one problem.

The next one is that your footage is 16:9 and his is very likely to be 4:3.

I suspect the best approach to both these issues is to do whatever is to be done prior to or during the downconversion. There are ways to convert 60i to 24p with good results but I've never really made a note of which ones are the best. The 16:9 to 4:3 conversion can be done easily in Vegas and it'll leave you a bit of wiggle room if the shot needs to be reframed.
DJPadre wrote on 11/7/2007, 2:01 AM
actually weve done this.. sadly.. lol

the DVX will record SD of whatever you throw at it.. In turn if your DV is progressive scan 16:9, it will record it..Basically it just doubles a as deck.
Individual camera nuances play no part in the tape mechanism, BUT if ur HD is not progressive, then the DVX WONT "encode" the new copy to prorgessive
aldo12xu wrote on 11/9/2007, 12:59 PM
Thanks, guys. We're going to give it a try in about a weeks time. My footage is not progressive but I can downconvert 16:9 to 4:3 using a Sony HVR-A1. So we'll see how it goes and I'll post the results in case anyone else is considering this procedure.