I've never tried to EtoE 24F to 30F but I don't see why that wouldn't work. Yes it's a pricey converter but if it's available why not. Unfortunately the anc. data isn't coming through. I assume there is nothing equivalent to an SD line blanker in the path feeding the deck.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Greg@...> wrote:
>
> Great idea. I'm going try it right now. Of course, we'd have to make
> an HDCam first- then make a dub of that, in order to add pulldown and
> adjust the timecode to 29.97 (or run it through the frame converter in
> the SR, but that's a very high price to pay for digibeta downconverts -
> I'd rent the 'deck' before then.
>
> gh
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> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: outputing from XDCam to tape - time of day
> From: "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...>
> Date: Wed, October 12, 2011 5:08 pm
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
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> The more I think about this I have another suggestion. What if you
> played the HD timeline out to an HDCam deck and set the HDCam deck to
> slave to the incoming VITC which in this case would be the anc data time
> code of the source coming down the HDSDI output of the avid assuming AMA
> linked media would pass this data, I have not tried that. I would expect
> the downconvert output of he HD deck to have VITC time code that would
> match the source time codes anc data. You could probably just pass
> through the HD deck in e/e to get to the digibeta. This would let you
> just cut the source clips together and do a straight digital cut in
> local mode without having to start and stop.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
> >
> > I know Avid will pass normal source VITC time code if it is present
> when captured in the SD world. You can set the digibeta to slave to
> incoming VITC in those cases and it will match the source time code. I
> have not tried this with HD material and I don't think Avid would
> regenerate SD VITC time code from the hanc/vanc but I'd love to be
> wrong. As has been mentioned you could take the ltc time code out of the
> Nitris/Hardware and feed it to the digibeta. You could then manually
> record on the Digibeta and playback the timeline using fast forward to
> hop to the next clip. If you set the timeline to high quality I wouldn't
> think there would be a dropped frame issue but I don't know for sure. If
> you had to you could put the digital cut tool in local and leave the
> digi in record while marking the next section. I would think this would
> give ascending time code that would jump to the next inpoint timecode
> when the local digital cut would begin for the next section you mark.
> Not exactly automated but might work. I haven't looked for but there
> might be external downconverters that would generate time code from the
> source anc. data and generate proper SD time code as vitc then you could
> just cut all the clips together and do one local digital cut. Sure wish
> Avid had the choice of spitting out sequence or source time code on it's
> output signal.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting problem- with one particular ongoing, normally we get
> XDCam HD Discs that are 'record time.'
> > >
> > > Part of our deliverables is to make digibeta of the XDCam- no
> problem, you AMA the clips to Avid, put them on a timeline that matches
> the timecode of the source, then lay that timeline to tape- now the
> digibeta timecode matches the source (with consideration for pulldown)
> so that if the client wants to go back to the HD, we have matching code-
> just like making a downconvert from 23.98 to digibeta-
> > >
> > > But, in this case, the XDCam was shot using time of day, in spite
> of our specific instructions to the contrary.
> > >
> > > without making a giant long timeline the length of the recording
> day, then starting and stopping the timeline 30 times (or whatever,) and
> 'crash' -recording each time they stopped the deck (allowing for
> preroll, of course):
> > >
> > > is there a way to get time-of-day from XDCam to the VTR through
> Media Composer? I'd even be willing to make an interim HDCam if that
> would help.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? We do NOT have the XDCam 'deck,' but rather use
> the PDW-U1 to copy the files right off the disc.
> > >
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