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Originally Posted by Stephen L. Noe
I guess the only NLE that supports the HD-250 right out of the gate is Liquid (that I know for sure).
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Stephen,
Do you know what Avid Liquid officially supports with the JVC cameras?
At DV Expo Friday I asked an Avid rep when the Avid line would support JVCs 24p. I was told that they had no idea, that the codec was a big was very difficult to write software for and, in addition, JVC had changed it from its original specs causing even more problems for the software.
Then I said, so at the moment Liquid is your only product that supports JVC 24p, and the rep nearly jumped on me saying, no, no, no, officially Liquid doesn't have support for 24p or the JVC camera. I mentioned that Liquid does work and he said again, very strongly, that there is no support for the JVC camera in Liquid officially.
After that I asked Anthony Martorina who was demonstrating Liquid. I asked him about 24p support, mentioning that the other guy said that Liquid didn't support it. Anthony said that whatever the other guy said was right.
I mentioned to Anthony that Liquid was bundled with the JVC camera in Europe, and he said he didn't know anything about it. I asked Anthony if there were presets for 24p in Liquid, and he said he didn't know. Then I asked him to look, and he did, and there was a 24p 23.94 preset for the timeline... which I believe is the one you say to use for JVC footage with Liquid.
My question to you is, Stephen, since you have mentioned you have worked with Liquid a long time, do you know what if any of the JVC progressive formats does Liquid _officially_ support?
It is very confusing as to why Avid claims Liquid does not support 24p when it obviously does as shown in your video tutorials. It is even more confusing why Anthony Martorina isn't aware that Liquid will work with the JVC 24p and there are even presets in the software?
Is the support for the JVC codecs somehow incomplete at this point so Avid doesn't want to officially support them? Or is it possible that the support within Liquid for 24p and the JVC camera will be removed or changed with the next service update, which apparently is coming out sometime next year? (From what I have read, features have been removed from Liquid with new updates, such as support for VOB editing.)
Stephen, if you have any info on the Liquid's support for 24 and JVC, it would be helpful. I have narrowed down my choices to Edius NX and Liquid Pro. However, Edius does officially support JVC and 24p but Avid says Liquid doesn't, at least so officially, so it seems it might be unwise to choose Liquid.
To complicate things, I am very possibly going to buy one of the new Sony V1U (shooting 24p 1080) and would want to use this footage together with 24p from the JVC camera. Edius works with the Sony footage, but is there anyway to know if Liquid will? That combined with the fact that 24p JVC is unofficial makes it difficult.