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Playback of 1 hour documentary
Hi,
I recently produced a 1 hour documentary. I am having a premiere for about 300 people tomorrow night. The film was shot in HDV, and I exported it as a self contained movie which is about 10.5 Gigs.
Is it a bad idea to play the movie back from this file, out of my MacBook Pro? Is that a risky thing to do? What would you do if you were me (besides not shooting in HDV in the first place!)?
Thanks!
Chris Walsh
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4 Replies
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Put it on an firewire drive, and it should play OK.
Jerry
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my first question: how are you connecting to the screen, through DVI? Is the screen going to be able to display your file at it’s full native resolution (1440×1080 for HDV)? if not just burn it to DVD…
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Thanks, Jerry. I’m honored to have you answer my question. I loaded a self contained version onto my laptop and it played well from there, although I’m sure you have a reason to play it off a separate hard drive. I also have a blu-ray version of it, but I won’t have it until a few hours before the event so I might not have time to go through the whole thing!
Thanks again.
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HDV is the same data rate as DV so easy to play of a firewire drive. Do a test to make sure the media player and projector can stretch the 1440 x 1080 out to 1920 x 1080.
The file you are making for the blu ray disk can also be played directly as it will be either H264 or mpeg2 1920 x 1080.
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