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DVCPRO 50
We shot some DVCPRO50 24p footage that is going to be integrated into our 35mm film. The video is going to have a specific look applied to it by the visual effects house. Our offline codec is 14:1p 24fps. We digitize on an Avid MC Adrenaline Windows system. The effects house wants to receive the footage in as-close-to-native form as possible. Is there any difference in the DV50p codec if digitized using MC Adrenaline vs. DS Nitris? I guess we’d be going in via 1394 as opposed to the DNA, so it might not matter, but I thought I’d ask just in case.
When digitizing DV50p, do I use 9-pin deck control, or do I control the deck via firewire?
My system:
Mac Dual 1.8 GHz G5
2 GB of RAM
Mac OS X v 10.4.3
Avid Xpress Pro v. 4.8.2.2640
Avid Mojo
QuickTime Pro v. 7.0.3
24p NTSC Avid Film Project using 14:1 Avid Compression
Avid Unity Media Storage
Digitizing on separate workstation: Avid MC Adrenaline on Windows platformmassachi
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3 Replies
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You can always capture it as uncompressed 1:1 and have it be better than the original for the FX house.
anything 24fps
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I don’t get why it would be better if digitized as 1:1. I understand that it might make a difference to capture via SDI in 1:1 if the source were DV25, it having 4:1:1 color sampling. But DV50 has 4:2:2 color sampling. What differenece would the effects house see if digitized in DV50p as opposed to 1:1? Does it have to do with the Avid codec specs/algorithms? If so, why are they calling the codec “DV50p” if it isn’t actually up to the DV50 spec?
massachi
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The reason for 1:1 is so that it does not need to go through a decompress and recompress for FX creation.
anything 24fps
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