-
DV and uncompressed
We are possibly transitioning to FCP from Media100. We don’t have any hardware capture cards for FCP so we have been digitizing our DVCAM footage through firewire into DV codec. Editing has been done in DV codec and unfortunately so has our graphics and overlays. I’ve noticed that the DV codec doesn’t do so well with graphics and certain curves (gets very blocky). I am wondering if I can digitize in the DV codec but render our graphics and effects as uncompressed so we won’t lose any quality.
Basically, what I am wanting, is the same file size and bandwidth of the DV codec (since we shoot in primarily DVCAM) but the high quality of uncompressed with our graphics, dissolves, effects, etc. Since we often shoot quite a lot of footage, we don’t have the storage to digitize everything uncompressed.
Thanks for the help!
-
2 Replies
-
Eddie,
Are you SURE of the bad quality? The fully decoded rendered fx in DV cannot be seen on the computer monitor. You must do the following to see true quality.1) connect a video monitor to the DV deck via S-Video. Leave the monitor and deck powered up at all times (connect speakers from the DV Deck as well and NOT the Mac).
2) put the timeline pop up into SAFE RT
3) ensure that the Preview and Full bars have checks next to them in the Sequence>Render menus
4) make sure all graphics are placed on whole, even numbers on the X,Y axis (check this in the Center parameter of the Motion Tab)
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com -
An uncompressed workflow can be useful, but only if you’re going back to, mastering to, a higher quality deck, say DVCpro50 or DigiBeta. Going back to DV will remove any benefit of going uncompressed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up