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AVCHD and MOV mixed – best workflow?
Hi everyone!
I have been on an incredible trip to New York and Washington that I captured on two different cameras, and I now want to create a bluray-disc of greatest possible quality.
I have interlaced full hd footage from my Sony HDR-XR520 and progressive full hd footage in .mov-format from my Canon 5D Mark II that I want to edit in Premiere Pro CS5.5… What should my workflow be to retain most of the image quality? I intend to edit everything and then burn a blu-ray with the finished product. I don’t know much about seperate sequences and different formats and all that, so maybe the quality will be super anyway… 🙂
I have searched the posts but not come across the interlaced/progressive mix anywhere…. Thanks in advance…
/Michael, Sweden
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4 Replies
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Hi Michael,
As long as the frame rates match in all your footage, an AVCD 1080P sequence with matching frame rate will work just fine.
Remember, your sequence setting only determine quality for preview, your export settings determine the final quality.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I hope that the frame rates are at least the same. Vince’s advice is right on.
Keep in mind that horizontal motion exhibits different characteristics in progressive as opposed to interlaced. If you’ve shot very different components of your project with the two cameras, the two “looks” may not be very awkward, but I would say that mixing the two sources together as if they were the same source, or multiple angles of the same action may be helped somewhat by forcing the interlaced clips to “deinterlace” on the edit sequence.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Everything has to be interlaced if one wants to make a BluRay like TS or convert to 24p
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Thank You for your input! I have tried to burn a test-bluray with portions of the mixed sources, and the quality is really, really good. The frame rates are identical, as you asked about, so I’m ready to start editing. I’ll try your tip about always deinterlacing as well, Tim – thanks again!
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