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HDCAM to DVC PRO HD
Someone has given me some HDCAM tapes, which is obviously 8 bit, and shot anamorphically at 1440 x 1080.
Rather than bringing this in as Pro-Res is there anything stopping me capturing this to DVC-ProHD – it’s also 8-bit and anamorphic HD?
It would sure save me some space and I could take the project home and work on it from a firewire drive.
Cheers
Dan
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Nothing stopping you. That is what I’d do.
Shane
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Then that’s what I’ll do.
Thanks, Shane.
Dan
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I’d go ProRes.
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[Kevin Monahan] “I’d go ProRes.”
Yeah, you would.
(lol)
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All HD cameras are anamorphic. Anywhere from 960×720, 1280×1080 and 1440×1080 are the primary sizes shot by most all HD cameras.
If you capture ProRes then you will be capturing full raster 720 or 1080 frame sizes. I would probably capture to ProRes myself if you have the AJA Kona boards.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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A slight correction to Walter’s post would be to say that most HD cameras do not record to full raster codecs. Some examples of cameras that use full faster codecs are 720p HDV cameras, the EX1 & EX3, and AVCIntra cameras.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Some examples of cameras that use full faster codecs are 720p HDV cameras, the EX1 & EX3, and AVCIntra cameras.”
With the Sony’s it depends on how you record. At least from the specs I’m reading on the EX 1 and EX 3: The new camera sports (3) 1/2” CMOS sensors, each with 1920×1080 resolution (and the XDCAM HD codec records in full resolution). It can also record in 1440×1080 XDCAM format to SxS express card media.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Andrew Kimery] “A slight correction to Walter’s post would be to say that most HD cameras do not record to full raster codecs. Some examples of cameras that use full faster codecs are 720p HDV cameras, the EX1 & EX3, and AVCIntra cameras. “
Yeah Andrew
we are talking about TAPE here.
HDCam is a TAPE format (8bit 3:1:1 recorded at 1440×1080) and walter was correct.There are any number of ways to shoot full raster without having to suffer thru the multitude of camera native compression schemes that can degrade your image quality much greater that a little anamorphic squeeze.
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Ok. I guess the best way is to do a little test and see what’s acceptable.
If i capture to Pro-res at least my wife will be happy that I’m not bringing work home!
Sorry Walter, we use Matrox here.
😉
Dan
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Walter,
Yes, the lowest quality setting on the EX cameras does not record 1080 at full raster.[gary adcock] “Yeah Andrew
we are talking about TAPE here.
HDCam is a TAPE format (8bit 3:1:1 recorded at 1440×1080) and walter was correct. “
Even when talking about tape based cameras not all of them use non-square pixels. Walter is correct in that there are a number of different non-square pixel formats but stating that all HD camera formats use non-square pixels is not correct.-Andrew
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