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Getting HD footage from Premiere to CC in Apple Color..
Hi everyone,
I’m not a Premiere user so I’m hoping someone can help me out. I’m color correcting a short film from a friend and he edited it on a PC in Adobe Premiere CS3. He shot it in Sony HDV and I imagine edited it in HDV too (not sure exactly the process for editing HDV with Premiere but I imagine it’s similar to Final Cut Pro).
I’m going to color correct on my Apple Color machine and he provided me with a file that is some type of uncompressed or similar as it’s 1500 mbit/s or around there. It had a .mov extension and in quicktime the format is listed as “matrox transfer codec”. The file isn’t proper 16×9 so that’s the first problem but I’m not even sure if it’s the right format that I want to be working in. What is the process for exporting HDV out of Premiere so that I can work with it in the Quicktime environment on my mac? Is there an uncompressed format and if so, how do you export uncompressed? Also, is there a way to export native HDV and if so what would the file extension be? Ideally I need to get quicktime to recognize whatever file he outputs. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to do this.
Thanks a lot!
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3 Replies
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Just tell your editor to export an Uncompressed (None) Quicktime Movie.
That should get you working together nicely. Big File size going uncompressed though.
Matrox is a hardware based Video Accelerator card that allows uncompressed HD editing with it’s own codec. That’s what your editor has given you. HDV comes in 1440×1080 PAL or 1280×1080 NTSC as a native to camera signal. You’re editor needs to export at 1920×1080 sq pixel aspect ratio.
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[Jon Barrie] “HDV comes in 1440×1080 PAL or 1280×1080 NTSC as a native to camera signal.”
Actually, you might be confusing this with Panasonic DVC ProHD…which would store the image at those resolutions and playout at full 16:9 square pixel frame sizes through interpolation.
HDV2 (Canon and Sony) is 1440×1080 @ 25 fps or 29.97 fps (PAL and NTSC refer to analog SD standards), and HDV1 (JVC) is 1280x720p…and HDV plays out without any interpolation to square pixel for HDV2 (HDV1 is sq. pixel of course).
If the file is not properly showing itself as 16:9, it’s quite probable that the non-square pixels that HDV uses are simply being read as square.
If you need to go to uncompressed to move the file, you may want to consider going through CC and accepting the aspect distortion until you get the material back to a format that outputs it correctly as a 1920×1080 file will be 33% larger yet under the same settings, and since that resolution isn’t in the file anyway…you certainly wouldn’t gain much except the viewing aspect while in Color (I take it that Color doesn’t interpret non-square pixels?).
Tim
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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If your editor has a Matrox RTX2 card, it will only export 1440×1080 (not 1920×1080) which is OK, because the movie was shot in HDV, which is also 1440×1080. However, if you open the clip in a 1920×1080 FCP project, you may have to adjust the pixel aspect or the H size to get it to fill the screen properly. If he has a Matrox Axio card, he (or she) would be able to export a full size (1920×1080) file (scaled up from HDV). Either way, the quality should be the same.
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