Converting HDV to DVCPRO?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Katterfelto] “Thanks for all the suggestions. Still having no luck at 4:45 a.m. Tried Compressor, but the same thing happened: the frame ratio kept switching from 1440 to 1280.”

That’s the correct frame aspect ratio. DVCPro HD 1080i/60 is 1280×1080.

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[Katterfelto]

But why does it appear squeezed? I’ve tweaked every playback setting I can find, and I get nothing.

Thanks, Walter…

Jack
(‘s brain hurts)

🙂

[Walter Biscardi]

[Katterfelto] “But why does it appear squeezed? I’ve tweaked every playback setting I can find, and I get nothing.

Thanks, Walter…

Jack
(‘s brain hurts)”

Have you done the DVCPro HD 1080i/29.97 Easy Setup?

Have you placed the footage into an appropriate timeline?

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Use Compressor’s “Advanced format conversions” if you don’t want to recapture.. don’t change frame rates, nor change size in any way… i.e. if shot 1080i60, then choose 1080i 60 as the converted format… It will not exhibit the behavior you see… Use the stock preset for the sequence setting too. I just tried this and it works fine. It could be used to do this on an overnight compression session while you get your nite nites in… It took my MBP 2.33 about 30 seconds to do a clip that was 10 seconds long. It will retain the original TC too.

I’ve an article about this in the second issue of the COW Magazine if you need more info…

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[Rich Rubasch]

I hate to jump in here so late in a thread, but if you have 60 hours why not log out the bad takes so the ingest is not so huge? YOu can always go back to that tape to pick up a shot if needed. I have to imagine that in 60 hours of footage more than 1/4 is unusable, or you will have a better take.

Another option would have been to make DVCAM dubs of the footage while it was being shot and digitize as DV and then you would worry about the final HD version after it was cut (a lot less DVCProHD footage to upload).

It is sounding a little in this thread that a pretty overwhelming project has been mismanaged from the beginning and now you find yourself in a jam. You will always find yourself in a jam if a project is mismanaged!

I wholeheartedly agree….redigitize your footage in DVCProHD! But since you have most of it in the system, how about redigitizing only selected takes that you decide are the best, which will reduce the amount of footage you have to upload?

A workflow for a project of this size needs to have established workflows and from those, timelines, so that the project can move along the specified timeline.

Rich Rubasch
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Rich Rubasch] “Another option would have been to make DVCAM dubs of the footage while it was being shot and digitize as DV and then you would worry about the final HD version after it was cut (a lot less DVCProHD footage to upload).”

HDV decks downconvert to DV in realtime via Firewire so there’s no need to double the work and tape count by making an DV dub during a shoot. Have honestly never heard of anyone using a workflow like this, especially considering 60 hours of raw material.

[Rich Rubasch] “It is sounding a little in this thread that a pretty overwhelming project has been mismanaged from the beginning and now you find yourself in a jam. You will always find yourself in a jam if a project is mismanaged!”

Not really sure I would call this a mis-managed project. They just didn’t realize how difficult and time-consuming the HDV to DVCPro HD conversion is if you don’t do it in realtime during ingest. But I don’t see anything in this thread to suggest that either the poster or their client has mismanaged this project in any way.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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