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Capturing 30p 1080 HDV and converting 60i to 30p
I have the Sony HVR-V1U, and I’m can’t seem to get the settings right in FCP to capture HDV 1080p30. There isn’t an easy setup for this. Most of the HDV settings for 30p are 720, but my footage is 1080. Any help anyone can give me with properly getting my footage captured so that it does not have to be rendered would be amazing!
I have the newest version of FCP. Again, the camera is the Sony HVR-V1U.
Also, is it possible to record 60i and covert it to 30p? What kind of quality loss is there, and what is involved in doing this?
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FCP well not let me capture From the 108060i HDV sony Z1U
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I’ve captured from an FX-1 at 1080i and converted to 30p in a timeline and don’t really see a quality difference. It does require rendering however. I used the technique of keeping one layer on V1, duplicating the layer, putting that layer on V2 and reducing the opacity to 50%. Then, drag a deinterlace filter on to both clips. Set the field as lower on the V1 clip and upper on the V2 clip. It’s kind of a basic “film look” technique.
Or, if you have the Nattress film look package, you can drop the film look filter on and change the setting from 24p to 30p and render.
We have the Nattress package at work, but on some home projects I used the aformentioned technique and felt the results were very good. If you go for the Nattress filters ($100), you’ll find a lot of use for them other than the deinterlacing. It’s a good set of filters with a lot of different film look presets as well as some good conversion features.
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“Stib’s Better Deinterlacer” works great with this.
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