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1080i or 720p for 1080p workflow?
Hello, I am going to be working in an ProRes environment with some Super16 film digitized from HDCAM at 23.98 1080p. I already have a bit of 1080i video from an HVX and am going to have to shoot some more as well.
My questions:
1) What is better to shoot for conversion to 1080p — 1080i or 720p?
2) How do I convert them?
Thanks in advance for your help, folks.
Oscar
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5 Replies
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What’s you final format and how many percent of it will come from either source ?
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Final format will be back to HDCAM, I suppose a 23.98 1080p master as well as other HDCAM dupes for film festivals – not sure exactly what format on those.
The movie will be about 80 percent the digitized super 16 in 1080 and 20 percent converted video (from either 1080i or 720p).
Thanks.
-OB
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Since you can squeeze a tad more resolution out of the HVX at 1080, I’d go for it in that case. But 1080i is of no use, since you can’t use the extra temporal resolution, so go for 23,98 progressive.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Shoot at a 23.98 framerate. The resolution you choose to go with is trivial compared to the importance of framerate.
If you have a Panasonic camera that only does 720, that’s fine. Many of those cameras only have 800-line CCDs anyways, so shooting in 1080 gives no significant benefit. Again, just shoot in the same framerate. Don’t worry so much about resolution.
Sean
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Thanks for your response. I guess I was mostly wondering what is better to convert to a 1080p working space – a progressive image shot at a lower resolution (720p) or interlaced at higher rez (1080i). Just wondering which one will convert best to that environment.
Thanks,
Oscar
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