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Advice on HDCAM to OnlineJpeg back to HDCam
we’re entertaining a bid to do a 90 minute rock show in HD (for velvet revolver). They shot on HDCam, are editing in FCPHD. I know $$ is going to be rather low, so I think a full uncompressed HD online is out of the question. The last time we did full uncompressed the rental costs alone were staggering.
Anyhow, I’d love some real world feedback on HDCAM to DVCPROHD/Online JPEG, and spitting back out to HDCAM. They shot 108O @ 24fps. Will we start getting compression artifacts to master? what about noise in the blacks (it’s a rock show). Any major pitfalls or redflags?
I know HDCAM is heavily compressed to start with, but we don’t have to worry about effects or fine color grading (the producer said we could grade color in FCP…. so they don’t even have the $$ for a tape-to-tape). Also, I would prefer renting a 20″ sony SDI monitor for final color approval, but can anyone give comments on analog HD to a Sony monitor?
thanks in advance everyone!
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Looking back though the forum I see this is NOT a recommended workflow.
So either we get more storage, or we rent the HDCAM deck longer and online in chunks. So either way it’s not going to be cheap.
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I don’t understand the problem. Most places rent by the day or week- not by the hour. Even still, onlining it in chunks shouldn’t be much more time consuming. Re-capture the first 30 minutes as Uncompressed, edit to tape, throw away the media, and repeat for the second and third 30 minute chunks. It would only take several minutes longer than re-capturing 90 minutes all at once and then mastering 90 minutes all at once. Unless you applied effects to the whole thing and needed to render the entire piece overnight or something, it really wouldn’t add that much time.
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Try buying several 500Gig USB drives along with your small raid. Download via your raid uncompressed then segue to the USB drives and then edit in chunks. When all done, pull everything back to the USB drives and bring the finished product into your raid for final tune-up. I’ve done this and it’s a little slow but it works, and I only rent the deck twice.
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