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abandoning dv for prores
Hello, the production co I work for is looking to move away from using dv pal in our edits. We are looking for a better quality format and I am reading wonderful things about the prores codec but have never actually worked with it.
Basically, we tend to work from news feeds given to us in mpeg formats but also a lot of our stuff is from dv tapes. It is all SD and all for broadcast.
When I look at the settings there are two prores pal settings. One HQ and the other not.
Does anyone have any suggestion as to what one to go for, if either of these?
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What is your final output? DV? If so, I would stay in DV.
If you edit ProRes and then send that back to a DV or DVCAM tape, it will take another 5:1 compression hit and look worse than if you had stayed in DV all along.
If your final output is Beta or higher, then ProRes will work fine.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Yes, it is going to digibeta. So is the HQ option a better one?
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[Stephen Fenn] “Yes, it is going to digibeta. So is the HQ option a better one?”
I would just test the two and see what you think in your situation. I honestly have seen very little difference between the two so far in our testing.
I would suggest you capture the same 5 shots using both ProRes and ProRes HQ. Then edit them into two timelines, on ProRes and one HQ.
Then do color correction on one of the timelines.
Copy and Paste the color correction filters from that timeline to the other so they are absolutely identical.
Render both and play them back.
Whichever looks better to you, go with that one.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
The new Color Training DVD now available from the Creative Cow! -
Ok thanks, will report back with results.
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