• Adobe After Effects

  HDCam and XDcamHD Composition settings

  Posted by Ian Oakley on August 14, 2006 at 3:21 pm

  Hi there.
  We’re shooting a promo in a mixture of HDCam and XDCamHD, both 1080/50i. We need to generate some graphics in AFX to sit with the footage. Any advice on composition settings for this would be greatly appreciated…thanks

  Ian Oakley replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul Escandon

  August 14, 2006 at 3:34 pm

  Hi there,

  I do a lot of after effects gfx work composited onto 1080/60i HDCAM footage and I always use 1920×1080 square pixel compositions and they match up perfectly. I always render out lossless animation and let the compositing program or final cut do the rendering of the piece. I have yet to use XDCam and I’m not sure what the standard pixel size is for the format. Hopefully it would match up well with HDCam footage and the same setting would suffice…

  But I’m actually curious now that you bring this up. I’m wondering if you start editing a project (say… final cut pro) what the sequence setting needs to be for XDCam footage to play natively (no rendering). I wondering if both HDCam and XDCam footage can play on the same timeline without the need to render one or the other into the sequences format of choice. Maybe you can give some thoughts on this once you’ve completed your project.

  Well, hope this helps. Peace.

  -Paul Escandon
  High-Def Editor and Motion Graphics Artist
  The Outdoor Channel
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  Ian Oakley

  August 14, 2006 at 3:40 pm

  Hi Paul

  Many thanks for your thoughts – very helpful. We’re actually going to be editing the pieces on an Axio system, with its own proprietary project settings for HD, sucking in through HDSDI, so the material won’t be sitting together natively.

  thanks

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