• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Onlining DVCPRO HD

  Posted by Dan Dujnic on March 13, 2007 at 10:34 pm

  Hey, I’m working on a project that is shooting DVCPROHD 24p, and have a few questions.

  The current plan is to edit offline in DV, and then online to uncompressed DVCPROHD. Then for deliverables. we are going to upconvert to 1080i.

  My question is, should we be onlining at 720p or 1080i? DVCPROHD is natively 720p, right? So it shouldn’t matter if we wait to do it after the finishing?

  Thanks for any advice,
  -Dan

  Enzo Tedeschi replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Enzo Tedeschi

  March 14, 2007 at 12:49 am

  Being that DVCProHD is a fairly low-bitrate for HD, I would consider cutting in that format. Simply because DV doesn’t support 24 fps – by editing in DVCProHD which does, you avoid the whole pulldown headache.

  A firewire 800 external drive, or an internal two-drive RAID would be more than adequate to cut in that codec.

  As for the upconvert, some HD capture cards will let you digitise via the component-style HD, letting you upconvert more effectively to 1080 from 720, without using the software conversion to do it – you will likely get a better result that way.

  My two cents.

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