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best codec / timeline for rendering / scaling DV25 material…
Howdy,
I’ve recently come aboard a doc project shot in several phases: 1st mini dv, std format 720X 480, then another trip where material recorded 16×9 using the same camera but with an anamorphic device on lense. The producer wants the footage to be 16×9, so everything gets placed in sequence with anamorphic 16×9 box checked, so using the std dv clips in the timeline requires scaling up to fit… Plus all of the stock comes in at regular 4×3. Thats all fine for the rough edit… dont care about best quality as I work thru the cut.
But my question is, when it comes time to prepare the locekd cut for final output / color correction et all ( either on same system output via KONA 2 card ) or put onto drives for a post house to output, what is the best codec / timeline to dump the final cut (unrendered ) to for working all of the scaling and other things that will have accumulated? It is my belief that another, uncompressed timeline, 8bit or 10 bit, ( from reading on the forum ) will accommodate the generational stress better than the native mini-dv codec of the source material…
Also, some stabilization required, and as I usually use After Effects, assume the chosen codec the one to output from AFX to…Thanks for listening –
best,
pete
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1 Reply
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Pete,
The footage will never improve no matter what you bump it to, but I can assure you, your text and graphics will be a whole lot better if you render everything 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed instead of DV.
DRW
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