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DVCPro50 questions
I made the mistake of digitizing some media to DV NTSC from DV tapes (13 to be exact)
The rest of the project was digitized from Betasp tapes to DVCPro50 codec which is what I am after for off line viewing.1. Would it be wise to convert the codec in quicktime pro by exporting to a compression setting (dvcpro50 etc) or does it matter for dv tapes?
2. or re capture from scratch to DVCPro50??
3. any better, greater ideas?
Thank you in advance for your expertise
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4 Replies
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You did not mention anything about your system or what version of FCP you are using.
If you are using FCP6.x on a reasonably fast system you should be able to mix DV25 and DV50 without issue in a DV50 timeline.The DV media is natively DVNTSC (DV25) and will not improve in quality by being re-captured at DV50, though if you are doing heavy compositing you might get some benefit from it (though you would really be better off using an uncompressed format, that being the case)
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Hi John,
Thx for writing. My system stats are below and its 3.5 yrs old.
I suppose if rendering becomes much, I can re digitize sections from the dv tapes.
Let me know if this makes sense.Paula
System Details:
Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz
1.5GB RAM
FCP 6.0.2
MacOSX 10.4.11
Quicktime 7.3.0 -
paula
the neatest thing about fcp is how many more ways you can bone yourself by digitizing with the wrong settings (been there, done that, got the t shirts, sold em on ebay) 🙂
dv res ie dv25 is roughly a 7 to 1 compression ratio, whereas dv50 is 3.5 to 1, which is closer to digibeta
all issues with compositing aside, if it looks good to you on an ntsc monitor, and you can mix the clips in a timeline without a lot of dropped frames, then keep it the way it is.
if you cant mix em on a timeline, then you will have to recapture or recompress through media manager, although my experiences with that have not been good (the recompress looks like crap), so i would favor recaptureing
if you can mix em, but can see a difference between the material, or are doing a lot of layering etc, then wait until you have a “locked” edit that everyone has signed off on, and redigitize just the shots in the timeline.
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
If you’re using FCP6, then I wouldn’t redigitize the tapes. It should work fine and you’d never be able to tell the difference if you went back and captured them at DV50.
-Russ
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