change field dominance

[Jerry Hofmann]

If it were me, I’d just recapture the 8 bit AS DV… your blackmagic product can do this probably… or you can take the video from your beta? deck and send it thru a DV camera/deck and do it that way.

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[David Roth weiss]

[Patrick Kofler] “The problem is the field dominance, which is different in DV and uncompressed files.”

Patrick,

Where are you located? In the NTSC world DV and 8-bit uncompressed are both lower field first.

DRW

[Patrick Kofler]

hi,

as you can imagine, I’m located in the PAL world. To answer also the other suggestion, I could recapturn it as DV, but guys, there is to much difference in image quality. I’ve done it and made a test with exactly the same frame, DV and uc; well, it’s two different worlds. I know it may sound strange, but since the image quality of the beta tape is not the best (there is a lot of noise, becasue of more than one copy generation, I suppose), I cannot capture it with a codec which heavily compresses. I have to get out the maximum out of the material and therefore use an uncompressed codec.

Thanks
Patrick

[Nick Price]

Hi Patrik,
I would use media manager to recompress your 8bit footage to DV, using exactly the same file names for each clip. Edit with this ‘offline version’. Then when finished, reconnect your 8 bit clips with the original uncompressed files. This is your final ‘online’ version. Pretty standard way of working now.

cheers
NIck