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  Uncompressed 10-bit Vs DV….?

  Posted by George Maccallum on January 24, 2008 at 10:05 am

  This may be a silly question…

  I have multicamera angles from a show, some shot in HD, some in DV, some better cameras, some on worse…

  Is there a codec which meets all varying qualities half way?

  Is Uncompressed 10-bit sharper, therefore a good idea to convert from DV??.. so that it better matches a downconvert from HD…..

  In other words, i’m trying to get all camera angles look quality consistent.

  Thanks for your time

  G

  George Maccallum replied 18 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  January 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

  George,

  They will never match completely. You can color correct and get them somewhat closely matched in terms of chroma, luminance, etc., but they will never cut together completely seamlessly.

  And sorry, but DV converted to 10-bit is no sharper than the original, it will look exactly the same, just with a much larger file size.

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  Walter Biscardi

  January 24, 2008 at 12:27 pm

  [George MacCallum] “In other words, i’m trying to get all camera angles look quality consistent.”

  They won’t without a very good color grading pass, and even there you’ll be able to tell which were the DV cameras and which were the higher quality cameras. At least you and I will.

  I would recommend you either go with DV or ProRes for the edit. You could even go DV50. If you have something like the AJA Kona series, you can capture everything in to the same codec to make it easy on the edit. You can even bring in all the other cameras to DV to match up the codec.

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  Ed Dooley

  January 24, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  I would say it depends on what the final output wants to be, and how much of the HD stuff you can use. If you want an HD master and you can use mostly HD with some DV, I certainly would edit in HD (probably 8bit though, unless you’ll have lots of graphics). If the final output is only SD then Walter’s suggestions make the most sense (and DV50 is a great codec for SD if you have a mix of stuff). And as both previous posts said, they won’t match in any case.
  Ed
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  George Maccallum

  January 25, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  Thank you for you help. As ever i continue to learn on this site. Cheers.

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