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Converting HDV project to DVCProHD
We have an 80 minute project shot primarily in 60i hdv, with about 15 minutes of DV material and a couple of minutes of HDCam. It’s all been edited in an HDV timeline. We want to send it to a post house for a screening master, and are being adivsed (by the post house) to convert it to DVCProHD, then deliver the project to them on a hard drive. We’d like to protect for a possible film transfer. Which leads to a series of questions…
1 – Is DVCProHD the format we should be converting to, or can a case be made for some other format? (I can’t quite get my head around the 1280×720 resolution)
2- One possible way to upconvert is to separate the HDV material from the rest in FCP, then drop it on a new DVCProHD timeline. Then, convert the original DV and HDCAM material directly to DVCPRoHD, thereby avoiding a second conversion. Finally, bring the former DV and HDCam material into the now-DVCProHD project. …here comes the question…Will this give me a clean up-res, or is there a better way to mdo the conversion?
3- If the process described in #2 makes sense, I assume it would be best to re-render all fades and effects in DVCProHD. Is there an easy way to A: remove all the renders before the conversion and B: reapply them once in the DVCProHD timeline?
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HDV and HDCAM are 1440×1080. FCP for editing makes it 1920×1080.
Do all your renders in your HDV project.Export the whole sequence out as DVCPRO HD 1080i60
Then the post house can work with that sequence
Try a short test.
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