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  workflow question for HDV project

  Posted by Mark Wagner on January 28, 2008 at 7:04 pm

  hi

  i´ve edited a project that was shot in HDV. the footage was captured and edited in HDV too.
  now the question: what is the best workflow to color correct and output to a regular SD DVD?
  i have thought of maybe rebatching in ProRes and grading with that codec in color, then exporting/encoding with compressor.

  cheerz
  mark

  Kevin Reiner replied 18 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul Escandon

  January 28, 2008 at 7:06 pm

  If you’ve gone HDV up to this point, I would say keep color correcting and working in HDV. Just output a quicktime movie when you’re finished and you can burn an SD DVD from that – obviously it will have to be encoded for DVD and become SD at that point. I’d say keep working native.

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  Kevin Reiner

  February 6, 2008 at 2:43 am

  Hello,

  Found this thread doing a searrch. I am about to start a similar project. I have a project shot 80% in HDV 1080p24 with the rest in anamorphic DV. Final project will end up as a widescreen SD DVD.

  Paul, you said:

  “If you’ve gone HDV up to this point, I would say keep color correcting and working in HDV.”

  Is there a better way to do it from the start? Just curious as to what people think is the best workflow to keep optimal quality.

  Just curious.

  Thanks,
  Kevin

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