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DV for cinema
Hi all! I’m working on a project shot on DV to be screened in the film festival circuit. I’ve captured all the material through firewire using little consumer Sony cameras for the offline. What is the best workflow I should adopt for the online to squeeze every bit of quality from dv? Does recapturing it as uncompressed 8-bit through SDI with the DSR-1800 make any difference? If so how much?
Some say that it’s better to leave DV native but does the choice of deck help? I know the DSR-1800 has a decompression chip, how does the firewire output from that compare to that of a consumer camera? Any comments would be greatly appreciated!
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If you captured DV via firewire, that is the best you are gonna get.
However, for color correction purposes, if you capture as 8-bit uncompressed and color correct with high end tools, perhaps render out of After Effects, or output your sequence WITHOUT ANY filters and then take that to a davinci color correction facility, you’ll see VAST differences…but only if you are color correcting. Capturing DV via firewire, or at 10-bit uncompressed…you’ll see no difference.
Shane
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Echoing what shane has said.
THe best thing you can do is take advantage of the low data rates and ease of editing DV. You might want to reconform your film at a Higher resolution before a Color Correction or effects pass.
This be done via hardware or via software from right within FCP. You can drop your final sequence into an SD timeline and color correct and render it to that codec as well.
You could media manage the sequence to a higher quality setting if you do not wat to recatpture. DV never gets better but you can do alot to make sure it does not get worse.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Thanks Shane and David! Correct me if I’m wrong, but it makes no difference if I recapture the footage at 8-bit uncompressed or just change the seqeunce settings to 8-bit uncompressed and render?
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Thanks a bunch!
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also…most film festivals only require a dvd-r for screening….maybe betaSP. i’ve taken many dvcam masters to do a beta dub, and they always look great. Stay cheap until you need to get expensive. by the time sundance calls, you’ll have the budget for anything you need….hopefully. heck, my last film was screened on VHS of all formats at a fairly decent festival!
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If you go to make CC set the sequence to 8b MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
Cheers,
rafael
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