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1080 30P Native/30Progressive scan sequence settings problem
I am not sure if this is where I post this, but it seems like this thread is addressing my issues. I shot a wedding using two cameras, a Sony HVR-Z5U and a Sony FX1000. I had them both set to 30P but didn’t realize until importing that I had set the Z5U to shoot native 30P and the FX1000 shoots 30P Progressive scan. I captured as HDV30P and all seemed fine in FCP 6. But after my Drive crash and reinstall of operating system and upgrade to FCP7, the timeline calls for rendering now. I checked the info on the clips and thats when I realized that I have both types of 30P. So now I have decided to render as prores 422 to save time with this monster HDV footage. I know I should have captured as ProRes 422 but didn’t know about it at the time and now I have 13 hours captured and I don’t want to re capture. I am not sure of what sequence settings I should use. What are the general settings for this situation and the render settings. field dominance for native 30P I thought was none but 30 progressive scan says 1080 60i in the info so that is either upper or lower. I get so confused by all of this. I hope I have not been too confusing in my questions. If anyone has any advise, this old dog learning new tricks would really appreciate it.
gigih7
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thank you so much for this great information. I would love to recapture to prores, the problem is I am almost done editing the wedding. And you are right, it does choke. That’s why I was wondering if it would be possible to copy the timeline over to a new sequence with render settings to Prores 422. Thats one of the places needed to know what to set the field order. If I can do this, I would like to know the proper sequence settings. I haven’t added all the effects yet or done color correction or slow mo, which I know will choke things even more if I continue to edit HDV timeline. I have never edited an HDV timeline as prores render, so this is a new game for me. You’re the best. I am so grateful to have such talented editors giving me such sound advise. Angels on my shoulders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gigih7
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thank you so much for this great information. I would love to recapture to prores, the problem is I am almost done editing the wedding. And you are right, it does choke. That’s why I was wondering if it would be possible to copy the timeline over to a new sequence with render settings to Prores 422. Thats one of the places needed to know what to set the field order. If I can do this, I would like to know the proper sequence settings. I haven’t added all the effects yet or done color correction or slow mo, which I know will choke things even more if I continue to edit HDV timeline. I have never edited an HDV timeline as prores render, so this is a new game for me. You’re the best. I am so grateful to have such talented editors giving me such sound advise. Angels on my shoulders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gigih7
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[Gigi Harris] “I was wondering if it would be possible to copy the timeline over to a new sequence with render settings to Prores 422.”
No need to do that Gigi, just do the following:
1) Go to Sequence>>Settings and change the compressor to ProRes 422.
2) Change the field dominance to none (assuming Mr. LaRonde is correct about that)
3) Then re-render
HDV on a ProRes timeline is amazingly fast rendering.
David Roth Weiss
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Thanks,
I’ll do that. I was concerned after reading Mr. La Ronde’s post about my HVR-Z5U not shooting native 30P or 24P but progressive scan. this really threw me for a loop because that is one of the reasons I bought the camera. I have a number of clients that want me to shoot 24 Native Progressive especially interviews for documentaries. Nobody has complained to date so I went to the sony site and found this information stated about the two cameras
“Native progressive” vs. “Progressive scan”
Another significant difference between the FX1000 and the Z5U is the latter’s ability to record native progressive 1080p video, as opposed to the former’s “progressive scan” mode.So my FX 1000 shoots progressive scan (which I did not know) and my Z5U shoots both progressive scan and native. Thats where my confusion lies for editing both together on the same timeline. Do I still change the field dominance to none in the prores sequence settings knowing this information. I have tried both and can’t notice a difference when editing. As I said before, when I was in FCP 6, I didn’t have to render the footage on the timeline but FCP7 I do (even when it was on an HDV timeline). This seems very very strange. Do you have any idea what may have changed?
gigih7
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Thanks,
I’ll do that. I was concerned after reading Mr. La Ronde’s post about my HVR-Z5U not shooting native 30P or 24P but progressive scan. this really threw me for a loop because that is one of the reasons I bought the camera. I have a number of clients that want me to shoot 24 Native Progressive especially interviews for documentaries. Nobody has complained to date so I went to the sony site and found this information stated about the two cameras
“Native progressive” vs. “Progressive scan”
Another significant difference between the FX1000 and the Z5U is the latter’s ability to record native progressive 1080p video, as opposed to the former’s “progressive scan” mode.So my FX 1000 shoots progressive scan (which I did not know) and my Z5U shoots both progressive scan and native. Thats where my confusion lies for editing both together on the same timeline. Do I still change the field dominance to none in the prores sequence settings knowing this information. I have tried both and can’t notice a difference when editing. As I said before, when I was in FCP 6, I didn’t have to render the footage on the timeline but FCP7 I do (even when it was on an HDV timeline). This seems very very strange. Do you have any idea what may have changed?
would I have been better off capturing the FX 1000 30 progressive scan footage as 1080 60i rather than 1080 30P since it is in a 60i wrapper. am I loosing resolution on that footage by capturing as 30P.
gigih7
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