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change field dominance
hi guys,
I’ve got to edit DV footage and 8bit uncompressed (bmd) footage onthe same timeline. The problem is the field dominance, which is different in DV and uncompressed files. What possibilities do I have? Can I somehow change the field dominance in the uncompressed material; the timeline 95% DV material.
Thanks
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4 Replies
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If it were me, I’d just recapture the 8 bit AS DV… your blackmagic product can do this probably… or you can take the video from your beta? deck and send it thru a DV camera/deck and do it that way.
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[Patrick Kofler] “The problem is the field dominance, which is different in DV and uncompressed files.”
Patrick,
Where are you located? In the NTSC world DV and 8-bit uncompressed are both lower field first.
DRW
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hi,
as you can imagine, I’m located in the PAL world. To answer also the other suggestion, I could recapturn it as DV, but guys, there is to much difference in image quality. I’ve done it and made a test with exactly the same frame, DV and uc; well, it’s two different worlds. I know it may sound strange, but since the image quality of the beta tape is not the best (there is a lot of noise, becasue of more than one copy generation, I suppose), I cannot capture it with a codec which heavily compresses. I have to get out the maximum out of the material and therefore use an uncompressed codec.
Thanks
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Hi Patrik,
I would use media manager to recompress your 8bit footage to DV, using exactly the same file names for each clip. Edit with this ‘offline version’. Then when finished, reconnect your 8 bit clips with the original uncompressed files. This is your final ‘online’ version. Pretty standard way of working now.cheers
NIck
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