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HDV/DV/AE Animation in FCP workflow advice
Hello Cow Members, I am a cinema student, and this is my first post here. Hope you guys can help me out. 🙂
I will be working in a project with DV and HDV video footage, but most of the footage will be animation from pieces of still images and paintings.
The animations sequences will be developed probably in After Effects, and I would like to edit the animations and video together in the FCP timeline.
Considering the long GOP issue in HDV, I wonder if someone can help me with a best workflow advice, my doubts are:
– Should I edit everything in a diferent format timeline other than HDV?
– If yes, what is the best way to capture or convert HDV into that? (just firewire available for now)
– In what format the AE animation should be rendered to FCP?
Thanks in advance! Sorry if I misspelled something in english.
Eduardo
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4 Replies
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Hi Eduardo,
For the HDV ingest I’d use the HDV-Apple ProRes HQ Capture Setting – It will convert your HDV to ProRes after capture and you will avoid GOP issues. You can do it with Firewire.
If you work with AE on a Mac you can render to a ProRes Quicktime.
You can drop all that into a ProRes timeline.Of course DV and HDV have different resolutions – you have to make a choice which resolution will be the base for your timeline (and to which resolution you will render your AE work).
Jaap
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Wow, that was fast, thanks a lot Jaap, that was very helpfull.
Everything should be HDV like resolution, so I wonder if the DV footage will look weird. Is there any special/better way of up convert the DV into the ProRes HQ timeline without a Aja or BM interface, in your experience?
Thanks, Eduardo
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I don’t think that an Aja or BM interface will give you better results than upscaling in FCP itself – I would capture through Firewire and drop it into the HD ProRes timeline (if you go to User Preferences, tab Editing, in the lower right corner you can select “Always scale clips to sequence size” and FCP will do this automatically). If you are not doing any chroma keying with the DV stuff then this is probably the easiest way to go.
An Aja/BM interface however will give you the possibility to capture into a ProRes codec and that will avoid some rendering later on.
So I think it is more of matter if you have the money for an Aja/BM, or the time to do it without.
Jaap
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Thanks Jaap. I will start working in this project tomorrow, and you helped me a lot. Nice!!!
Eduardo
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