• Sony Cameras

  converting to sd

  Posted by Deepak Verma on March 14, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  I am planning to buy and pmw-ex1. but at the moment struggling with a question

  the inherent format for the camera is 16:9 where as my requirement is SD for broadcast purpose in India and wide screen for other purpose

  i have read that it is possible to downcovert the footage in SD.
  as i have seen with some other downconversions that they keep the aspect ratio same – while coverting the footage. how is it possible to covert HD to SD so that it becomes real SD – mean i do want black bands above and below.
  has anybody done it that way?
  can they share a clip or two?

  will there be a quality loss?

  Ron Shook replied 18 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Kevin Jones

  March 14, 2008 at 7:54 pm

  The way I see it is you will either have letter boxed images-bands at top and bottom, or center punched- no bands at top or bottom, but the side are cropped.
  Center punching fills up an SD screen completely.
  If you shoot with center punching in mind it should not present a problem.
  You also have the option of panning around within the picture.

  Kevin Jones

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  Deepak Verma

  March 15, 2008 at 3:41 am

  thanks Kevin
  what will be the best format to shoot if i shoot keeping center punching in mind so that it comes automatically vertically and i crop sides (to the bare mi minimum possible)
  as the final output is going to be on DIGIbeta for telecast

  second will in involve redering in FCP – i have 5.1.4 and soon planning to migrate to studio 2

  what kind of losses i should keep in mind
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  Kevin Jones

  March 15, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  I have only been shooting in 1080 formats.
  The tricky part is setting up FCP.
  I’ve been editing in an EX-1 timeline using the Apple Pro Res Codec for rendering. Then copying everything and dropping onto a DV timeline for DVCAM recording.

  You will need FCP Studio 2 and all the upgrades. Quicktime etc.

  Kevin jones

  2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
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  Ron Shook

  March 16, 2008 at 6:19 am

  Kevin,

  [Kevin Jones] “I’ve been editing in an EX-1 timeline using the Apple Pro Res Codec for rendering. Then copying everything and dropping onto a DV timeline for DVCAM recording.”

  I don’t know FCP at all, but may need to interface with it sometime. Can I assume that Deepak should follow your methodology up to but not including dropping into a DV timeline and rather drop into a 601 uncompressed timeline, render and play out to his D-Beta deck?

  Ron Shook
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