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  Rendering HDV 30p

  Posted by Thayer Radic on December 27, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  Im shooting 1080 at 30p and I want to render to the best quality possible for playback on a laptop for presentation purposes.

  Since I am shooting 30p I want to render progressive to avoid interlace artifacts.
  My current render setting are WMV at 1080 30p – 8000kbps.

  Is this a good choice?

  – Thanks

  Thayer Radic replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rick Wise

  December 28, 2008 at 8:03 pm

  For some reason, none of the real experts seem to want to answer any questions about 30P renders. My post a short while back lies unanswered. By considerable trial and error, I have done the following with 30p HD footage (shot on the EX1):

  –render to AVI
  –template: HD 1080 60i YUV (there is no 30p template for AVI)
  –custom/video: set Field order to none (giving you 30p again)

  I suspect there’s a better way, but don’t know what it is.

  Rick Wise
  director of photography
  Oakland, CA
  http://www.RickWiseDP.com
  email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
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  Danny Hays

  December 28, 2008 at 9:19 pm

  I render HDV to the same WMV preset you used, The one at the bottom of the WMV dropdown list. 1440 1080 8 mbps and they look great. It takes a fast computer to playback these videos though. 2.8 duo core is what Microsoft claims. I don’t see any interlacing on my videos rendered to this format. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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  Thayer Radic

  December 29, 2008 at 5:14 pm

  I agree it looks great, but do you also encounter very long render times?
  – Thayer

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