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I am going to be shooting and posting a project for a client in the next month and they would like a high-quality "film-look" HD capture to be delivered on DVD. I have shot some test footage with the HDX900. My issue came in ingesting the footage shot under 1080 - 59.94 24PA. I am using Panny's AJ-HD 1200AP deck over FW. My version of FCP (5.0.4) doesn't have a DVCProHD 1080 24PA Easy Setup. I captured with the DVCProHD 108060i Easy Setup and selected the "Remove Advanced Pulldown from 25 50 Sources" but the stuff comes in at 29.97. I've been reading (a lot) in the forums about dealing with 24PA in DV, but I haven't come across anything dealing with this 1080 24PA flavor from the HDX900. Here come the questions:
1) Is it better just to shoot the 720 24P with this camera (which looks great) since I have been reading that the 1080 on the HDX900 is a blow up anyway?
2) Capturing over FW with the AJ-HD1200AP from any of the DVCProHD formats I tested with the HDX900 have given me (in brief instances) an error E-02 (High Error Rate). Is this a problem with the deck? I have read in another thread on CCow there may be some confusion about the ability of this deck to properly playback the HDX900's tapes.
3) Am I stupid in not upgrading to the Universal App of FCP? There was some concerns from another editor in-house that is would run slower on our Power PC machine.
Thanks for any posts...

I'm currently doing a project from the HDX900. I've captured with pulldown removal of the 720 source to a firewire 800 g-raid with no problems and pulldown does get removed properly. We chose to shoot in 720 due to concerns about 1080 out of that cam. And it does look great. I'm also running the universal FCP on a dual 2.7 G5 with no problem.
If you want the "film look" the a great piece of advice is to get a lens adapter and use film lenses. That makes a world of difference!

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