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duuuude
well, the adrenaline has cost me alot of money since getting it but tonight, it straight up cost me a whole gig. It’s no secret how buggy rying to capture some HDV can be and this time it was 4 figures expensive for me. Finally got it working after the client left with nothing.
May have to upgrade to wondows movie maker.
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Have you tried using an HDV to HD-SDI converter to feed the Avid?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Bill is ABSOLUTELY correct. I know that the Adrenaline is allegedly capable of handling HDV, but I have never had any reliable success with it. However – HOWEVER – if you use a Convergent Design HD-Connect-MI to convert the HDMI signal to HD-SDI, OR use an AJA HD10AVA to convert the analog HD Y Pb Pr signal into
HD-SDI (and it will embed the audio for you too), THEN, HDV works BEAUTIFULLY with the AVID Adreanline system. You use your normal DNxHD145 or DNxHD220, and everything works seamlessly.When Sony releases the HVR-1500 at NAB this year, this will be a wonderful HDV VTR for the AVID Adrenaline, with HD-SDI output, and RS422 control. But for now, without the AJA or Convergent Design adaptors on your HDV VTR – I have no idea of how anyone can get thru a session.
With this said, I have seen several workflows on the AVID-L2 website, where people have gotten thru sessions with just firewire, and have been successful. I have never followed their steps. It’s too easy to buy the converters.
Bob ZElin
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The other simple solution is capture in HDV and transcode to 145 or 220 codec and away you go.
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oh no no
I’m talking about a regular old 720 project. Just the buggy firewireness.
I gave up on trying to do HD on ths thing a long time ago. Drag. It’s one of the reasons I bought it.
So, with the converter, I could I edit in HQ and actually get to see it when played? I thought it was goofy that I could only play it in half quality but I could export a finished 1081 project I had never gotten to watch.
lol
I also have had no luck trying to utilize 1080 footage in a 720 project with the ability to pan/resize it w/o losing anything. -
the AVID Adrenaline is a fantastic product to edit HD with – both 1080i and 720p.
If you have an HD VTR, like a HDW-M2000, JH3, or Panasonic AJ-HD1400, you can edit HD all day long with no issues, and see your images instantly – just like you do with Beta VTR. When you add the converters I mentioned, the AVID thinks it’s looking at one of these pro HD VTR’s. When the HVR-1500 comes out, you will not use an HDV codec – you will use a normal HD codec like DNx220, and work like normal, and see everything in real time with no rendering. A teriffic workflow.You are only suffering because you are trying to go in via Firewire with the HDV codec.
Bob ZElin
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Thanks, Bob.
maybe I can try some of this out should the budget allow later on.
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