Best course of action for mixing 1080p and 720p

[Mark Maness]

[dfarrell] “I have some footage that was shot 1080/24pA and footage that was shot 720/24pN on the HVX200. I used Cinema Tools to remove the pulldown from the 1080 footage (the removal on import NEVER works!!). Not sure which course of action is best for editing. Should I resize the 1080 footage down to 720, or up the 720 to 1080? “

Well, the question has to be… what is the major of footage shot? Is it 1080p or 720p? If its 720p, then I’d convert the 1080p to 720p and the opposite if its 1080p.

[dfarrell] “Here’s the crazy part. I am finishing to HDCAM-SR, so when I have picture lock, I am going to export an uncompressed Black Magic Quicktime and lay that off to HDCAM-SR because the delivery specs are HDCAM-SR/1080/59.94. HOWEVER, that is being downconverted to a D-5 720/59.94!!!”

Now, that is crazy… Why would you want to convert anymore? If its beacuse you only have an HDCAM-SR, then I would consider renting the D5 machine to keep it clean. All of those converts can make for poor quality on the final output.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Dfarrell]

[Wayne Carey] “Well, the question has to be… what is the major of footage shot? Is it 1080p or 720p? If its 720p, then I’d convert the 1080p to 720p and the opposite if its 1080p.”

It is pretty much an even split. I would say there might be a BIT more of the 720 footage.

[Wayne Carey] “Now, that is crazy… Why would you want to convert anymore? If its beacuse you only have an HDCAM-SR, then I would consider renting the D5 machine to keep it clean. All of those converts can make for poor quality on the final output.”

This is not my choice. We have an HDCAM-SR deck, but no D-5. There is ZERO dollars left, so renting a D-5 is out of the questions, but the distributor accepts HDCAM-SR masters and do an in-house layoff to HD-D5.