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Transfering DVCPROHD to DVCAM on another machine
Hello all,
I have a particular issue here and was wondering if you guys might be able to provide me with a little help.
I have a motion picture, shot on the Panasonic Varicam (DVCPROHD), and edited in Final Cut Pro on FCPHD 5.0.4, on a pre-Intel OSX G5 Desktop Mac. The film is being shown in a festival soon, and their preferred methods of display were either HDCAM or DVCAM. Nobody can do HDCAM around here, and it’s a bit expensive where I’ve found people who can do it elsewhere, so I was just going to do DVCAM for now. I have a local place who can do the transfer for me.
My question is this – how best to go about it? The local place uses all Avids. And I don’t have any kind of card in my computer to be able to go out to a deck with, so I can’t bring my deck in.
It seems I’d have to make a file for them that they can open on an AVID. They also told me I should downconvert the project into Standard Def before I came as well. So how would you guys do this? How to best downconvert this movie into one file to bring in on a hard drive for them to do a transfer to DVCAM that can play on a digital projector at a film festival?
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
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You need to convert your HD show to a SD codec that will run on Avid. The first thing to do is ask the shop that will make the DVCAM what Quicktime formats they can read. Then export a QT movie (ref or self-contained)of your show in DVCProHD. Then use Compressor to convert that to an SD version using the QT format the shop can read (DV, DVCPro50, 8-bit uncompressed). Search the COW to find out the specifics of using Compressor to go from HD to SD if you are not familiar with the procedure.
You may have to download Avid QT codecs to make the file. Here’s a page with a bunch of them. Work out with the shop which will work best for you. https://avidtechnology.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/avidtechnology.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_cv=2.126
John
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