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HDV monitoring on FCP
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to join this conversation with a question.
So if you have a HDV recorder/player (sony M10E) can you work with HDV at a OFFLINE, capturing via firewire can you use the normal mac monitors with a BLACKMAGIC DECKLINK, to monitor at offline?
Then for the online, you would use a MIRANDA box to recapture the HDV at HD quality via SDI of the MIRANDA box, and then you would need a HD mac monitor with a HD link box?
Any help greatly appreciated
Cheers
arturo
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3 Replies
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Arturo,
The Miranda box is not cheap, and more importantly, there is the question of whether or not it really allows for recapture with 100% precision and reliability. I’m not saying that I know for sure that it doesn’t, I’m just suggesting that I wouldn’t think about going that way unless I absolutely knew that I could recapture flawlessly.
Personally, given that hard drives are so incredibly cheap now, I would probably either capture everything in native HDV or in one of the intermediate codecs and go from there. But, since you haven’t said exactly what your final product is, DVD, TV, film out, etc., and since you haven’t indictaed how much footage you will ultimately be capturing for the project, its really impossible for anyone to give you perfectly informed advice.
DRW
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Depends on what you want to do. HDV does not have to be limited to offline use only…nor do you have to recapture HDV as SDI using a Miranda box…I capture HDV as HDV via FireWire and use this media all the way through my online. I never have to recapture anything or suffer the huge filesizes of uncompressed. Although capturing the SDI flow as DVCProHD is an option but I have not done this and dont know if audio/timecode follows.
Our shows are based on the DVCProHD codec. Most of our material originates in this format but the occasional HDV stuff gets captured via firewire as HDV and dropped into a DVCProHD timeline with everything else. If there is a lot of HDV to cut I will make an HDV sequence first for the editing, to avoid having to render the footage while editing, and then copy the finished edit into the DVCProHD timeline.
At home I get by using a Dell 24″ monitor for my offline and probably online too since my shows are documentaries that dont rely on a lot of color correction or effects. But for my normal work I have a Kona2 card and a true broadcast monitor.
A lot of it really depends on the type of footage you are editng, the style or look you are going for, how much color correction/treatment you will be doing, etc. and what your final product will be. In my case, the above scenario works quite painlessly and is good enough for broadcast.
Sterling
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Hello,
Thankyou for replying to the post.
We will be getting loads of footage, hours and hours, this is why we are looking for an offline / online
solution.The reason we wanted to go for a Miranda box is because we want to ONLINE in native HD ie highest quality possible quality.
Am I right in thinking that if we captured the footage via the M10E deck through firewire, we would be dealing with an Mpeg codec and therefore since the project requires lots of LAYERING and EFFECTS, we would be rendering alot, aswell as requiring alot of processing power.
So if we captured via the Miranda box, the media would be more manageable as we would create our own offline setting maintaining integrity of the framesize etc for online.
Also we would be working in a faster native environment ie not HDV codec.
Are we right in these assumptions
Cheers
arturo
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