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Best way to handle HDV footage?
AE doesn’t deal well with HDV (or any other MPEG-2) format, so I was wondering what workflow works best–(I’m on a Mac)
1)Export footage in a non-GOP format (such as Apple ProRes) from Final Cut Pro to AE
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2)Export footage as HDV from FCP, and let AE make a low-res proxy?
HDV has great image quality, but it definitely wasn’t designed for post!
–Robert
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4 Replies
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exporting to any codec that does not use temporal (interframe) compression and that uses a very good (high quality) intraframe compression or none at all would be the way to go…
-apple’s animation codec with no compression keyframes (default) is usually a good way to go.
-image sequences may be better, offering 16bpc files (tif, tga, png, pict).
-photojpeg is a lossey codec, but at high quality settings (90-100) you’ll be hard pressed to see any image degredation and you’ll save a lot of drive space, if that’s a concern.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
prores, as you mentioned, may also be a decent choice. it does use lossey intraframe compression, but no temporal compression, similar to photojpeg. they both use 4:2:2 color that is greater than the 4:2:0 color of your hdv, so you won’t lose color (actually, photojpeg drops to either 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 color at about 75% quality)….
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
oops, correction, photjpeg is 4:4:4 at 100%, 4:2:2 at 75%…
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
[Kevin Camp] “oops, correction, photjpeg is 4:4:4 at 100%, 4:2:2 at 75%…”
I wasn’t even aware that JPEG used chroma compression. Learn something new everyday here on the COW (;
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA
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