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Exporting HDV to DV
I’ve just done my first project using HDV and I’d like to export it for use on DVD. My problem is (and perhaps I’ve already shot myself in the foot here) I blew up some of the shots quite significantly – up to 150%. They look fine in HDV, but when I export them to DV, the blow-ups look like garbage. Is there any way to fix this, or am I just horribly screwed?
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G’day Shane,
You’ve kinda shot your self in the leg, but we have hospitals…
So – you would have been way better off if you’d captured in HDV (which you have) and cut in a DV project.
This way you have extra resolution to “Zoom in on” before losing quality.
Open a new DV project, then import the HDV project into the DV one. (this won’t affect the original HDV edit.)
Now what’s happened it the footage may be zoomed in on all your clips if they are not “scale to frame” by default in your original HDV project. That’s cool.
Find the shots you have that are “Zoomed in” and select them, go to File Label COlour… pick one. It might be in Edit… can’t rememver and in hurry to go. If you look in this colour label option there is a bit to select that colour. this helps later to select just these bits and not the rest of the eidt.
Once you’ve coloured these “Zoomed clips” do a Select All. Then right click on one of the clips in the timeline to see the “Scale to Frame” Option. Ticking this will make all clips in the selection take on this funtion. All clips should fit frame properly now.
Go back to the COlour label thing in either File or Edit and select the colour group. This selects the “Zoomed clips” you colour labelled. These one’s need special attention to get the scale right… Make sure these one’s have the “Scale to Frame” switched off. Then get the first one and work out the zoom level you need. It might be smaller than the 100%! once you have one sorted out and there are others that require the same zooming (other’s that had the exact same scale settings) and apply that number to them.
Now you will need to render the whole project again. But you’re in the best position to get decent DV output with out losing as much quality.
Because of the field dominance being the other way do a test of about 30secs with motion to see the issue.
Have fun!
– JOn 🙂
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net -
Excellent – thanks! I’ll give it a go.
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