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up convert SP to HD
hey guys,
I am going to be working on a project that will be shot using the EX3 but there will be lots of archival material which will be in different formats and the final output of the project is going to be Blue ray DVDS and also SD regular DVDs
so what would be the work-flow? what can I do with the SD material?
anyone had experience with such project? any suggestions?many thanks in advance
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4 Replies
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Get an AJA Kona 3 and upcovert all your SD material to match the frame size / frame rate of the HD material. We do this all the time. It’s incredibly easy and clean.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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If you have an AJA Kona 3 card you can do a realtime up-convert of the SP material if you feed it through an analogue/digital converter. Blackmagic also have a card that does upconversions but I’ve never used it.
The other way is to capture everything you want and then upconvert using Compressor. This would take a long time depending on how much archive material you intend to use.
I think various telecine houses also offer that service, as do many post houses – might be worth considering if you want to take the load off your hands and free your system up for editing the other parts of the programme.
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Article on Kona 3 upconvert:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/aja_kona3.php
Shane
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Hi,
RE: Upconversion:
“Get an AJA Kona 3 and upcovert all your SD material to match the frame size / frame rate of the HD material. We do this all the time. It’s incredibly easy and clean.” – (Music to my ears.)We’re shooting HDV and mixing DVCam, thru an HVR 1500a deck > AJAioHD > Mac Pro. (All with SDI.)
When I’m up converting from DVCam the only FCP setting I change is the Input of Capture Preset, which changes the Primary setting of the AJA. All the other settings are left as ProRes 108i 29.97, etc. The timeline plays fine,but it has to be rendered (the green render line.) And when playing a source clip in the viewer, the BT-LH 1700 Panasonic monitor gets a colorful band of distortion across the lower quarter, and everyone is fat.Since you can’t accurately batch capture HDV, We want to capture everything as Pro Res 1080i 29.97, and the down conversion works beautifully, giving us both SD and HD. But the up conversion…….
Thanks,
Michael G
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