Best HD Workflow for web and DVD

[Michael Sacci]

Edit, export self contained movie w/ current settings.

Take movie to Compressor, encode for YouTube to their specs. Encode m2v and ac3 for DVD authoring.

[Antony Lyons]

What should i log and capture settings be for maximum Quality and Sequence time line

[Steve Eisen]

Get out of HDV as soon as possible. Capture as ProRes 422.

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[Antony Lyons]

Is There a Difference in capturing in ProRess 422 or ProRess 422 HQ

[Antony Lyons]

What Exactly should my setting be in FinalCut Studio ?

[Michael Sacci]

It is recommended that you stay away from HQ, there have been capture and rendering associate with it and there is not a huge benefit in quality.

Setting need to match for frame rate and frame size.

[Matthew Campagna]

Be careful when using ProRes 422. An hour of HDV takes up about 13GB of space where ProRes 422 takes about 65GB of space. Also, HDV’s data rate is 3.75MB/sec versus ProRes 422 at 27.5MB/sec. If you system can handle those two things, then ProRes 422 is superior in all other ways.