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frame grabs from HDV vs HDCam?
Hi all
I need to take a load of high res frame grabs from a show I did, and also would like to work on different cuts of a trailer at a usable resolution.
Working on HDCam means going back into the edit at a pretty steep hourly rate, with cash I do not have. I reckon I could save a lot of $$$ by working in FCP off of HDV by simply getting a dub made from HDCam to HDV, for a low-ish one-off fee. (For one thing I have free access to an HDV deck…) The show was recorded for PAL delivery originally on a Sony 750, at 1080i/25, which is the same as HDV, right?
Would there be an appreciable difference in the quality (by which I mean resolution and/or colour) between frame grabs (ie single frame exports) taken from the original graded HDCam version and those taken from an HDV dub of that master?
Would anything weird happen interlacing-wise, or could I get rid of any artefacts/frills by running the deinterlace filter on each scene I wanted to grab frames from?
Thanks all for your help as always !
Zrennk
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Have your post facility capture your HDCAM tapes to a hard drive as ProRes and edit that, it will look much better than going to HDV and your system should be able to handle it as long as you can run firewire800 drives.
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The post guys I use don’t have access to ProRes, it’s Avid only. Is there an FCP compatible Avid-available codec which they could use to capture directly from HDCam onto a FW800 disk? (If it’s too meaty a data rate to work on a FW800 disk then it’ll be too meaty for my system)
Wouldn’t it be simpler to dub from HDCam to HDV then capture that into ProRes? Would there be appreciable horrible quality loss?
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