• Avid Media Composer

  getting out from Avid 16:9 HDV project

  Posted by Neowalls on March 4, 2007 at 11:47 pm

  I’have been working with avid xpress for a while.. but all the proyects I have delivered have been in 4:3 no problem with them at all… now I’m trying to work with a 16:9 hdv camera (Sony hdr-fx1) so… I have 16:9 HDV material my question… is…

  How can I take it out from avid time line (also I work some graphics on adobe after effects…) some parts of the time line are displayed on 16:9 and the AE graphics and media created parts are displayed in 4:3… I need a print to video output… I’ve tryed to export a .mov and but I got a lot of weird artifacts and interlace issues… Can some one help me.. I need a good compression technique here (I’m not into the compression field)

  1.- How can I get out from my timeline a complete 16:9 Hdv project
  2.- How can I export a good (size-quality) clip (no matter if .mov .mpg whatever)
  3.- which is the best resolution for digitalizing HDV footage on the avid’s capture window

  need your help!!!!!!!

  thanks for your time collegue

  Erik Pontius replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Erik Pontius

  March 5, 2007 at 10:09 pm

  1- exporting a HDV mpeg2 transport stream aka .M2t file. Or transcode your entire sequence to DNxHD 145, whereby you could export Quicktime same source or reference files (neither is an option for native HDV, hence the need to convert).
  2- see number 1
  3- HDV capture only has one resolution: HDV.

  as for your mixed aspect, you can use the reformat pan & scan effect to scale your 4×3 and anamorphic widescreen footage to fill the HD frame. HDV is recorded 1440×180 but uses a pixel aspect that resizes the frame to 1920×1080 (HD). If you created comps in AE that used the DV widescreen preset, you’ve actually created a 720×480 frame with a widescreen pixel aspect ratio…You’ll either need to redo your comps in AE to 1920×1080 for best quality…

  Erik

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