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mastering an hdv project
Now I’ve made the switch to Mac computers fcp and hd I’m planning on making a tape master at the end of the project and making a digital file to store on a hard drive.
How am I best to do this? I have projects that where filmed in hdv the sequence setting are set to proress for rendering. At the end of the project am I best to export the sequence as proress is this likely to be the most future proof? -
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You can export a Self Contained ProRes Quicktime for your digital file.
If you lay that sequence back to HDV tape, you’re going to recompress it a second time in the HDV codec and the quality will definitely suffer. If you lay back to a higher quality format like DVCPro HD, HDCAM or D5 you’ll be able to retain most of the quality of the ProRes timeline
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Stewart,
HDV is lousy to edit in and worthless to archive in. Not a bad acquisition format, but a lot of us bail on the format by capturing to ProRes and/or/rendering in ProRes, and storing as digital files or laying back to a decent HD tape format.
Just my 2 cents…
Have a wonderful day.
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Thanks for the info…
When I worked on dv at the end of a project Id make up a dv tape. I didn’t think about the limitations’ of the hdv format.
At the moment I can’t afford a better quality tape deck so I’m assuming im best to just make up a digital file?As for capturing straight to proress is this possible using a Mac book pro? Id had been advised to capture in hdv and set the render setting for the sequence to proress!
I feel like every thing is going wrong!!!
http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk
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When I worked on dv at the end of a project Id make up a dv tape. I didn’t think about the limitations’ of the hdv format.
At the moment I can’t afford a better quality tape deck so I’m assuming im best to just make up a digital file?Just make a digital file, ProRes is fine.
As for capturing straight to proress is this possible using a Mac book pro? Id had been advised to capture in hdv and set the render setting for the sequence to proress!
Yes indeed, do it almost every day. I have a tutorial in here about how to capture to ProRes. But we do this daily on our MBP and towers.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
Have a wonderful day.
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thanks for all the info! Ive got a few questions about the capture process and proress so Ill make a new post
http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk
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