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Capture in HD or SD?
I’m working on a documentary project and shooting the footage in HDV 1080i, however, I will also need to incorporate older footage that was shot in standard definition. I’m assuming if I was to capture my footage in HD and set up my FCP project for HD, then the SD footage would look terrible because I will need to blow it up. Because I don’t plan on exporting my project in HD at any point, would it be better to capture my HD footage in SD and edit everything that way? Thanks.
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If its not taxing to your equipment/work flow I would still edit it in HD. Remember, in a year nobody will want to see it in SD, and a year after that SD will be very uncommon. Unless its something you will never look at again anyway! 🙂
I’m in an similar situation, shooting a documentary using older footage (dubbed from original VHS to DVD) as well as stills. The difference for me is that I DO intend to burn this to Blu-Ray at some point. I plan on editing and capturing using the ProRes 422 format. I have two additional questions/notes:
1. What’s the best way to capture the footage from consumer DVD to a FCP-friendly file suitable for HD delivery? Handbrake? Visual Hub?
2. Is it better to blow up the SD footage in FCP or to convert it in the capture-from-DVD process discussed above?
3. I’ve seen some good feedback on the Anamorphic plug-in’s – would it be better to drop the footage into the timeline as standard SD definition and use an Anamorphic plug-in to stretch the footage to HD size?OK, so I asked three additional questions…I think this is relevant to the original post, and think we could both benefit from the responses! Thanks.
Thanks,
Scott
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Scott Dickens
Rocket Pop Media!
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