Hi Peter,
Both workflows are viable, as long as you can have consistent cadence at the 3:2 pulldown stage. In our experience, the J-H3 deck is able to keep up only in a playback only scenario. In a batch capture situation, the hit/miss ratio was around 50-60%, meaning some clips are captured properly, whereas others are not(they come in with wrong cadence). Changing the deck to an HDW-F500 increased the success rate to 95%.
My advice is to dub the HD tape to an SD format(Digi, BetaSP, DVCAM, DVCPRO), keep TC as NDF and go from there. If you go DVCAM/DVCPRO, hire a good editing deck(like DSR1800) if you want to avoid similar issues.
Bogdan Grigoresco, BSEE
Sr. Broadcast Engineer
Finalé Editworks, Vancouver
Peter Zacaroli <dslist(at)westdigital.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've got a question regarding 29.98, being English I don't know very much
about NTSC so please be gently with me.
How do you handle 23.98 in post? We've got a client who's shot 23.98 and
needs to offline on media composer. So far the two routes that have been
suggested are:-
Offline on Film Composer at 24 fps using a JH3 to put out the correct
timecode.
Make offline copies in NTSC at 29.97 and then edit on Media composer
As you can probably tell I'm rather vague on detail but if anyone can help
I'd be really grateful.
Peter
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