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Best process for DP reel on DVD?
I posted a version of this question on the Basics forum but didn’t get any response, so I’m hoping someone here will comment. I really want to get this right.
I am helping a friend who is a DP re-cut his reel. He’s been shooting dramatic Television on both 35mm film and uncompressed HD. Along the way they’ve given him miniDV (DV NTSC) tapes of all his shows and he’d like to use this as his source material because he has easy access to everything. The reel will be shown on SD DVD. My thought is to transfer the DV material into ProRes 422, edit in that and then do the best quality multi-pass compression to DVD. If I load the material I have to use Firewire to get it off of the tape and I don’t think I can import it as Pro Res, rather I have to bring it in as DV and then transcode it.
1) Assuming we start with the miniDV tapes is this the right workflow?
2) Will this yield acceptable results, or do we really need to get the raw material in a better/different format? And if so what?
3) I assume the material was all shot 4:3, if so what’s the best ProRes setting to use to end up back on DVD? Do I even need ProRes?
Graphics and image manipulation are not going to be important, fidelity to the original image, especially color, detail and motion, is. I expect most of it to be straight cuts, maybe a few dissolves and supered graphics. I am editing on a low power iMac but with the latest FCS (FCP7). I have a Firewire Raid 0 hard drive but some storage limitations, however, my gear is not the most important consideration as this needs to look professional and could be taken to another studio if necessary.
Thanks.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
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3 Replies
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No point in transcoding it to ProRes… you’ll gain nada if all of the source is DV to begin with. Since it’s very short most likely in the end. Don’t do a multipass render for the DVD. Instead, choose a CBR one pass and set the bit rate up to about 7mbps… will look a lot better than any mulitpass VBR MPEG-2 you can do from Compressor.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX Cinema Displays
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Thanks Jerry. I understand that I can’t get back what was lost in transferring it to DV and that there will be some more loss encoding for DVD. Given that we’re probably not doing much by way of graphics or color correction is there no loss in the editing phase using DV? If there were, that would be the reason in my mind to use ProRes to stem the loss.
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There’s no loss per se in capturing the DV as DV…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX Cinema Displays
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