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COW Articles: HDV Format Recapturing HDV. Can it be done?
&page=/articles/battistella_david/recapturing_HDV/index.html”>Recapturing HDV. Can it be done? CreativeCOW.net contributing editor and leader, David Battistella, explores the question of recapturing HDV. He’d seen so many posts, so much talk about HDV format and the problems incurred, so David has taken the time to test a couple of workflows. Here’s David’s report.
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yes, the image is softened when captured from Hdv to Dvc Pro 100
But what about capturing in Dvc HD Pro ?
Documentary Director & Editor
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[Francois X] “yes, the image is softened when captured from Hdv to Dvc Pro 100
But what about capturing in Dvc HD Pro ?”
DVCPro 100 and DVCPro HD are the same thing, so you’ve answered your own question.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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YES !!! I wen’t back but too late … I was already flamed (gently)
I thought you Americans were supposed to SLEEP at that hour
Documentary Director & Editor
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[Francois X] “YES !!! I wen’t back but too late … I was already flamed (gently)
I thought you Americans were supposed to SLEEP at that hour”
No no no, you see we have special G5’s over here with a nifty little invention that Marco Solario created called the Marco Molto. It’s a coffee spigot coming right out of the back of the machine. The machine runs so hot anyway that we might as well brew coffee with it, right? so that spigot feeds an IV line connected directly to our arms so we don’t need sleep. 🙂
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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on sunday nights (at least) try this :
– turn off the machines
– go to bed
– rest you head on a pillowsomething very strange will happen, it’s called sleeping
Documentary Director & Editor
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[Francois X] “something very strange will happen, it’s called sleeping”
I’ve read about that in a book somewhere. Must try it some time.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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On a recent job, I was waiting to borrow the Miranda interface that converted from MPEG to HD SDI. Alas it was not available, so I opted to recapture with FCP5 in HDV and then software convert up to HD 10bit 4.2.2 for colourgrade, titles etc. The original had been edited in Standard def DV codec so it was an offline/ online workpath.
Apart from the render upres time on top of the recapture time, I was impressed with the quality of the result and NHK Japan techs were also impressed. I have to say though that a realtime converter from HDV to HD SDI (either the Miranda or Convergent) is my prefered workpath as it is a time saver and I expect to be transparent at least and possibly a better picture. I am not surprised an analog recapture was softer than the firewire capture.
As for sync, the recapture was perfect and yes, media manager worked.
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interesting Michael,
did you have an Decklink or an AJA inside ? Or something else ?Documentary Director & Editor
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I have the Decklink HD extreme card
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You’re so crazy, Wally!!! =)
Now that winter is drawing near, I may have a secondary use for that heat source! 😉
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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