DVCPRO 50 in FCP

Hi, I need to download some DVCPRO 50 tapes. I have a Panasonic HD1400. I already downloaded with the same deck, large format DVCPRO HD (1080i) tapes but doesn't recognize the DVCPRO 50 tapes.
Any suggestions?
Thank you

Thanks for your answer. I am not sure if I have a card, but i tried to match the settings and nothing happened However, I called apple's technical support and they told me to delete the "Cache" and "Preference" info that I had. After that we relaunch FCP and it worked well.
Thanks again for you time!
Vivi

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Now,
after I've been days on DvxUser forum, tried various solution found there I'm ending up with a simple question as an HVX200 user:
- What's the problem with the PAL Huge World, Apple? As far as I know my International clients when ask for an Ntsc copy is for US or Japan (the other few that use it are out of the big Business).
- So WHY Apple, that is in the video/film business since the begging of NLE systems, always forget? or it's late in developping Pal solutions?
From Panasonic Q&A P2 site:
Q5 : Can the AG-HVX200 output the SD or HD signal through the IEEE1394 terminal?
A : The AG-HVX200 can output the SD or HD signal through the IEEE1394 terminal according to the menu setting.
Select the format in the "REC FORMAT" item of CAMERA menu.
In the native format, 720/24PN, 720/25PN or 720/30PN, the AG-HVX200 cannot output the signal of camera picture through the IEEE1394 terminal. In this case, record a picture on a P2 card once and then playback it.
When output the signal recorded on the P2 card, the signal is output through the IEEE1394 terminal in its recorded format and cannot be output through the IEEE1394 terminal in the up-converted format or the down-converted one.
- The only easy setup for Log & Capture DVCPRO HD is 1080i50. That's it!
- While in Ntsc has 1080i60 and all 720p: 24/30/60.
Even with the Sequences setup!! Thanks to some guys that wrote a great pdf and also an Xml file for a sequence 720p 25 and 50...
So the HUGE World of Pal users has to help themself....
Hopefully if these 30 glorious years are just the begging, the next will be also HD PAL years!!
piero

Hi Shane,
thanks for your point of view, I always appreciate your advices in this forum.
Back to issue, the problem is Capture (digitizer) that is limited to 1080i50 not for Compressor (if you look inside the Capture Preset 1080i 50), so you can't use any other option than P2 card or Firestore to get the other HD Pal formats.
I also want to share (may be someone else already did it, but as in latin "Repetita juvant") the link on that helpful site on FCP and DvcPro HD, and Hvx200 also. He has done a great job for all of us pal'ers:
http://www.aulich-adamski.de/wp-content/720p50HVX200en.pdf
So the points are:
- The world is going HD? Yes! So our business!
- ok Hdv has been adopted by major prosumer camera maker.
- the DvcPro HD Pal codec is not that new (the Varicam, the 900, etc).
- the HVX200 in just few months, as you can read on DvxUser forum, is very popular in all of the application (indie, commercial, music video, doc, feature film or tv series) and the results are very good.
- Is FCP a pro application? Yes, so...support professional people.
- It's much more easier to work in FCP with DvcPro codec than Hdv.
- I've seen many posts of Hvx users that were asking for a live capture solution apart from Firestore and similar. We are in that group, as we've to shoot hours of live content.
- The new Mac Book Pro cannot (by now) accept P2 Cards 'cause the express slot. So we were buying two of them for HD work but we put them on hold and keep the PBook. So the alternative for MBP is capturing live via firewire, but limited in Pal market.
- Last but not least: Panasonic DvcPro HD Fcp plugin Frame Converter (for VFR) does NOT work in Pal even if you capture through P2 card.
May be is also Panasonic that is slow in updating Pal tools, who knows, but the only other alternative (that you can find on the site above) is using a Component HD card to capture the other formats, that means that you have to carry in studio/location at least a G5...
Finally, as I'm not a developper: does it take that long and is that heavy work to translate a QT digitizer codec from 24p to 25p? or from 60 to 50?
I'm pretty sure that if you do an online poll for Hvx users to pay 5 euro each one to have that codecs done by some developper, they will !!!
Take care,
piero
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Thanks for taking the trouble to respond. Haven't been back here for a while so I did not see it.
Yes I am aware of how SmoothCam evaluates the whole clip. Learned early on to keep clip sizes small that were likely to be SmoothCam'd!
The problem is with exporting the final edit. Although an apparently huge choice of formats is available, in practice only a very few seem to be usable due to the excessive vibration and shake that affects the exported video. It bears no relation to movement in the original footage.
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Thanks....

Actually the MP4 came from ripping the footage from a DVD...not web-related.
I was referring to the list of codecs that Quicktime allows you to select under Compression type. I am working in standard DV/DVCPRO in FCP, what is the best you'd recommend?
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see if this addresses your issue
Shane's Stock Answer #10: ALLOCATING DISKSPACE
1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Never have that box unchecked. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.
2) Do not under any circumstances run any anti-virus/filesaver software. Including Norton and Virex. Sure, Apple doles out Virex for free, but FCP doesn't cooperate with it very well.
If you absolutely feel you must keep Virex installed on your system then use Kevin's script to shut it off before you use FCP:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[email protected]@.68a85d17
3) Do not capture to your main system drive.
4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mas OS Extended, jornalling off. If it isn't, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.
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I wanted to create a vignette effect so I exported my clips as a Quicktime (current settings) sequence to Motion. When I was done there I exported the sequence from Motion back to FCP as a DV NTSC movie.
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1) Trash your FCP preferences. Download the appropriate version of FCP Rescue at http://www.pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue and run it.
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Firstly, this is not a 29.97 vs 30.0 issue.
You are right...because 720p is NOT a 30 frame...nor 29.97 frame...format. It is a 60 frame format. 60fps running at 59.94. And you are trying to convert that to 29.97...might cause issues.
So when most of us say "30" here in america, we really mean "29.97."
I think only Americans responded to you. A guy from Wyoming, one from Denver, and me from Los Angeles. We know what you mean.
FYI the Varicam 27F can be set up at a system level to run at either 59.94 or 60.0 but it is almost always set to 59.94 here in the US.
Yup...I know that...
However, we generally do not use the term "pulldown" to describe the extraction of the "30" actual frames from the 60 frame cadence
OK, true...sorta. Any sort of frame removal is called PULLDOWN. But is isn't as complex as 30 to 24...pardon, 29.97 to 23.976.
we have been using the workflow I described for 2 or 3 years, with excellent results.
And now it doesn't work? So, what changed in that time? Anything? If you are doing the same thing you have been doing for years, and then suddenly it stops working, then the culprit will be anything you did differently, or any new software, or new version of software that you "updated" to.
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