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HDV Export to tape
Ive got four one-hour shows to lay back to HDV tape. Ive already exported them as standalone HDV QuickTime movies and reimported them into FCP. The conform process only takes about 5 minutes before they are ready to go and start laying to tape. In general it seems to work well but there is always a spot or two on the tape where the program has dropouts, loses audio or has some kind of glitch for a moment or two. Since these are going to be for broadcast this is totally unacceptable.
How successful has anybody been doing an HDV print to video on hour-long shows? Since it is one hour long Im screwed if I get even one unacceptable hit anywhere on the tape since I cant “edit to tape” and have to relay the whole show. And I dont really know what else I could do to improve my chances of getting a clean show all the way through.
Any thoughts here about long duration HDV print to video and how to get a perfect layoff?
Thanks
Sterling
Sterling Noren
Owner/Editor/Producer
WideWorld HD Productions
Seattle WA -
8 Replies
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the glitches are happening on the fly right?
not in the HDV compressed files?
This reminds me of days long ago printing to video from adobe premiere 4
What I would do is when your all ready to do it,
shutdown the machine, wait a minute, then power it up.launch fcp and go for it.
You might also look into a really high quality firewire cable
and get one as short as possible.that might help.
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Sense it is for broadcast will they even accept an HDV tape?
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[zrb123] “Sense it is for broadcast will they even accept an HDV tape?”
oddly enough some do.
I sent some JVC 24p HDV tapes to CNN a few months back.
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Help! sorry i need same thing fixed –
client wants rough cut back on tape to edit
FCP V6 HD filmed on DV on sony fx7E Pal
Cant print to tape
Cant edit to tape
Tried Quicktime conversion
still No visuals, all i got was a timecode
what is correct cam imput settings eg auto or HDV,or even DV?
i link on or off ?
Can someone repeat FCP v6.6 settings all the way
why wont it show up on cam
FCP V5 was easy , you could just crash record off timeline, FCP 6.6 wont -
Anyone have any ideas on the above questions?!
I’m facing a similar problem – have a number of edits on FCP (ver 6.05) that I have created a contained QT file, rendered out at the standard HDV settings, 1080 50i (I’m in PAL land).
AV settings appear correct, match up to the sequence and QT file settings. Using a Sony HVR m25. One clip played out perfectly, the others despite being exactly the same settings have intermittent glitches on them.
There are no other programs running, I have disabled “mirror on desktop”, rebooted everything, reconnected everything. I’m running a 2.66 quadcore xeon with 6GB of memory, and the files are coming from a fast ProAvio drive.
Hair loss imminent…
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…just a quick update that may indicate I’ve now solved the problem.
Re-exported the files, still with the same settings, but this time checked the box that says “recompress all frames”
So far, everything has run off onto tape ok now with no glitches.
(reason for doing this is a secondary backup – to have both data files at proRes quality on disc but a backup copy on tape)
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HI Phil,
Sorry to sound thick.
Please can you outline how you did this again,
from the timeline using v FCP 6.6 to tape on sony HDFX7E pal, and does it matter that the original clips are in diff formats ( its a doc using archival footage and HD )
I hope you can help, Valerie -
Don’t apologise!
Essentially, you need to export the whole timeline and create a self-contained .mov file, which should be exported with the correct codec settings for HDV.
This is then put on a new timeline with the correct HDV settings for your camera, and then exported to tape.
It essentially bypasses some of the glitching that can occur with mixed formats on a timeline and exporting to a HDV device.
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