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Dazed and Confused
Hello again. I have some workflow issues that continue to trouble me, and I just stop and wonder sometimes…am I doing this right?…How do others do it?…etc. My goal is to get the best possible resolution working in the DV realm. Check my profile and you’ll see I’m working with the Production Suite. Currently capturing DV via Firewire. AJA Kona LS capture card when capturing other formats. All the different and varied workflow settings involved for FCP, LT and Motion are driving me crazy. I’ve checked the archives and have learned much from the cow….thank you! And I’ve read the manuals. Guess I’m approaching info overload. I want to know what the Holy Grail is, the optimum settings for FCP, LT and Motion so everything generates top-notch quality. I learned one trick where I edit everything in DV NTSC, then upconvert the timeline to uncompressed 8-bit. Is this the “best practice”? I’ve got a good eye, been in the TV biz since ’82, but things still look smoky and/or soft at times on my NTSC monitor. Maybe this is the devil in the DV codec. Since late May I’ve been self-learned, but am due to enroll in some official classes in October. I just want to be good at this. Sorry for the length and thanks as always!
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Your DV source footage is a little blurry compared to other sources. The same is true of a DV timeline, but it doesn’t hurt your DV footage at all. That said, “up-rezzing” to a uncompressed timeline won’t really help your footage (except perhaps in the color correction), but any graphics that you add will remain uncompressed rather than having to be compressed into the DV codec.
So… graphics look better in an uncompressed timeline. And I would output through that Kona if you can. Even going to Beta SP from uncompressed would be better than going to DV through FireWire.
My $.02
-Todd Beabout
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I’ll add that you pick your end product and there’s no reason to ever create higher definition than that.
Unless, of course, you think something will be repurposed later.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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