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Capturing HDV
Hello,
I am quite the novice at all this HD stuff. I’m making the transition kicking and screaming, and though I know that’s where everything is gravitating towards, I just wish we could find the best possible solution and everybody could just use that, but then that would be too easy, wouldn’t it? 😉
Here is my question. I’ve shot a project that 90% of the footage shot was on HDV. We had one tape on BetaSP. I have Avid Media Composer and set up my project as NTSC 30i, because I want to bring in the footage and convert the stuff shot at 16 x 9 to 4:3 without losing the resolution. The project will ultimately be streamed on the web. We shot on HDV for archival purposes so that, years later, if someone needed the footage to go back to, it would already be HD. Is this possible and how might I go about doing something like that?
Thanks so much,
Trevor Hands
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2 Replies
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If the question is how to convert your footage to 4:3, I’d just use a reformat FX.
Jon
“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better” -
At my shop we shoot almost exclusively in HDV using a JVC GY-HD200U. I digitize footage with a JVC BR-HD50 deck. In this, and most HDV decks there is a menu setting that will “side-cut” the footage and convert it to 4:3 on the fly. I’ve had to do this on many occasions and it works brilliantly. Check your deck menu options and track this feature down. The only problem that you may run into is the framing of the shot. When shooting 16:9 your safe zones are much wider than the are at 4:3. So hopefully the videographer took this into consideration when shooting and the focus of your shot does not get cropped off on the edges. Cheers.
-Justin
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