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4K Video workflow for HDV Output?
I’m not sure if this is the right forum for this — and I welcome recommendations — but here’s what we’re looking at:
Because we ultimately output to HDV, producers figured they could shoot 4K and get a second, blown-up shot out of one piece of media with no loss of resolution (in this case a medium close up and a forehead-to-chin close up). Sounds reasonable, but they didn’t figure out the workflow in advance. They ultimately got a kid to output two versions from Premiere, so we ended up with two pieces of media, but it took forever.
Is anyone else out there doing this? Does anyone have a better workflow?
Dudley Saunders
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[Dudley Saunders] “Because we ultimately output to HDV, producers figured they could shoot 4K and get a second, blown-up shot out of one piece of media with no loss of resolution (in this case a medium close up and a forehead-to-chin close up). Sounds reasonable, but they didn’t figure out the workflow in advance. They ultimately got a kid to output two versions from Premiere, so we ended up with two pieces of media, but it took forever.
Is anyone else out there doing this? Does anyone have a better workflow?”
Hi, Dudley:
I’m guessing you mean that you are editing an HD 1920×1080 project, not actually mastering to the HDV codec. I shoot in 4K and edit in a 1080 timeline quite often. In a nutshell, I just edit my 4K material scaled to fit the 1080 frame, then when the edits are done, I go back and scale up the clips I want to “punch in” on. This happens right in the timeline––no need to render out an extra piece of media. I edit on FCPX, but it should be a very similar process in Premiere Pro as well. You do need a system that can handle the 4K though!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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