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HDV, AVID & Duck – a good news story
With so many nay sayer posts about HDV, I just wanted to share a good news story to encourage people to use HDV.
Documentary shot on a Sony V1. 103 camera tapes. Captured into an AVID Adrenalin as HDV. Editor logged and captured sections off tape, not whole tapes. Timecode breaks were never ignored.
Automatic Duck converted the aaf project file export from AVID into an FCP project file. HDV reloaded via firewire. Over a thousand edits in the 74 minutes and perfect sync and recapture on all but three shots. The only thing that didn’t translate was shot reframing and moves on stills. Dissolves and super text translated. Text needed to be resized and positioned. All in all a painless from AVID and HDV behaving itself when managed properly. Producer and edit facility and I spoke before the first frame was shot.
Also the pics off the V1 are excellent and look much nicer than Z1 footage.
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[Michael G] “Also the pics off the V1 are excellent and look much nicer than Z1 footage. “
This is because the V1 is a true progressive, true 24 p camcorder whereas the Z1 is an interpolated video frame in the Cineframe mode.
Otherwise… Good Job! HDV is very workable as long as you plan accordingly and log your footage correctly.
One question, was the HDV footage acquired via firewire into the Adrenalin?
[Michael G] “Timecode breaks were never ignored.”
This is where everyone goes wrong. This is a good lesson for videographers to pre-stripe your HDV tapes before shooting. Time codes will be consistent and logical.
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[Wayne Carey] ”
One question, was the HDV footage acquired via firewire into the Adrenalin?”Yes it was. This was a PAL job so the footage is 1080 50i.
The V1 has some really nice on board gamma curves. That plus the lens seems a bit sharper and the color was cleaner making the pics outstanding. Its not HDCam with Canon primes but it is impressive. I still prefer the Canon XL H1 with primes but the V1 has restored some faith in Sony.
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