1080 24p on P2 convert to SD??

[Uli Plank]

Scale it down to SD size, then:

If you are working for PAL: speed it up to 25 psf.
If it’s for NTSC: add 3.2 pulldown.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Noah Kadner]

Personally I would suggest editing at 1080 and then scaling down the final product. Save yourself a huge amount of processing time not to mention you’ll have a 1080 master rather than an SD one only. That is why you shoot HD isn’t it…?

Noah

[Frank Nolan]

Another option is to dump the P2 contents and last clip.txt file to a hard drive for storage and archive of the HD content then down convert (in camera) to a mini dv tape and then capture that into FCP for SD editing

[Anonymous]

Frank,
you posted
“Another option is to dump the P2 contents and last clip.txt file to a hard drive for storage and archive of the HD content then down convert (in camera) to a mini dv tape and then capture that into FCP for SD editing”
So how would this work? I have everything on the hard drive, so would I have to transfer everything back to the P2 cards, then to tape on the camera? Is the down convert to mini dv tape a menu setting? What is the workflow?

Thanks for your help.
JB

[Noah Kadner]

Firewire out using the 480i mode. Though again this is a total waste of all that great resolution. You could edit in full DVCPROHD for only 4 times more storage space and hard drives are dirt cheap…

Noah

[Frank Nolan]

[avideditor420] “So how would this work? I have everything on the hard drive, so would I have to transfer everything back to the P2 cards, then to tape on the camera?
Yes!

[avideditor420] Is the down convert to mini dv tape a menu setting?
Yes. Read the chapter on dubbing Page 86 of the manual

[avideditor420] What is the workflow?”
Well because you already unloaded the footage off the P2 cards on to a hard drive it would be a waste of time copying them back to P2 and down converting in the camera. You can always work in a offline RT mode that would mean converting all of your footage which would be pretty time consuming. Here is a link to how that would work.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/offline_rt.html

However, if at some point you would like to have a HD master of your project, I would suggest simply buying enough hard drive pace and cutting the project using the 1080/24p files. 1 hour of footage in this mode will require about 43gb of space so with a 500gb drive (around $200) you would get about 10 hours of footage.
Then when you are finished cutting, just down convert the final cut to SD and archive your HD cut.