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Blackmagic and HDV consult
Hello, thanks to everyone in advance, this forum rocks!
Last week I was hired to produce a 1 hour TV weekly show. We are going to shoot in HDV.
We will edit by using Final Cut’s multiclip capabilities in an HDV codec sequence (or Apple intermediate codec, whatever works best), and then adding the graphics (animation codec) on top of that.
The client wants to have an HD quality master delivered in a Hard Drive, but we also have to do a SD tape out in DVCAM for the broadcast station.
I’m evaluating the posibility to buy a Blackmagic Studio card so that I can output that HDV sequence to DVCAM in realtime without having to render it.
Will this work?
Will the Black Magic Card help my system output realtime via firewire?
Will it only output via analog connections?
Will I have to change to ProRes in order to have realtime?We would like to keep the small HDV file size if possible, Pro Res is far heavier.
Any advice would be awesome, so please feel free to do so.
Thanks a lot in advance
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Multicam editing with HDV will likely be painful unless your system is extremely fast. I’d look strongly at ProRes LT for this. You can capture directly to it. and will work like gangbusters with multiclips.
The FireWire bus will not be improved by using the blackmagic gear, and yes, it’s only outs would be SDI or analog… it should do the down conversion in RT however.
The intermediate codec will show a definite loss of quality BTW so I’d pass on that idea.
Either AJA card (LH or Kona 3, or Io HD etc…) will do this too BTW… but no cards I know of will allow you to use your FW bus for the down conversion. Hey, nothing wrong with SDI unless of course your machine has no SDI in to make the SD tape you need. Same can be said for Matrox products.
Before you commit to any cards though, I’d wait a week… NAB is next week after all, and Blackmagic, AJA, and Matrox may all have some new gear for your perusal…
If you’re budget allows, a KiPro setup for each camera would be the cat’s meow using HDV cameras. First and formost, you get REAL 10 bit video out of them. If you record to HDV first. You don’t… So you actually gain video quality with a KiPro with ANY camera actually. It also leaves you ready to edit mulitclips with matching timecode.
Jerry
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Thanks!! You are absolutely right, lets wait for NAB!!
On the other hand, on the last post I talked about Blackmagic Descklink Studio, but will the downconversion and realtime playback work for HDV with a Intensity for example??
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