DV to HDV Converters?

[Shane Ross]

Then you need to capture HDCAM footage…not DV, like your subject line suggests.

You’d be best served getting an HD Capture Card like the Kona 2 or Decklink and capturing all the footage at the same resolution. Maybe start with an offline resolution, then capture full res 10-bit HD.

HDV is more of an acquisition format, not a mastering one…

[Pierson Jacquelin]

[Shane Ross] “HDV is more of an acquisition format, not a mastering one…”

I know, I know, but the client REALLY REALLY wants to work in HDV all the way.

…any converter boxes out there? How about dubbing to an HDV camera and then importing?

-Pierson

[Shane Ross]

You can try that. I haven’t so I can’t say it will work.

What sort of inputs does the camera have? There might be a loss of quality if you have to go over a composite or even S-Video wire.

You might have the 5 HDCAM tapes dubbed to HDV at a dub house…

[Pierson Jacquelin]

[Shane Ross] “What sort of inputs does the camera have? There might be a loss of quality if you have to go over a composite or even S-Video wire.”

Sony Z-1…my guess is that is has an S-Video in…but it’s a guess…

Another guess is, “will it upconvert to HDV from an S-Video input” if it has one…

The non-HDV source tapes are DVCam.

-Pierson

[Shane Ross]

AH! DVCAM. Then just capture them normal…DV/NTSC. But work in an HDV timeline. Unfortunately this means that anytime you add a DVCAM shot to the HDV timeline, you will have to render it.

Unless other people know about a converter. I know that you can downconvert HDV to DV thru the camera, but not the other way around.

[Uwe Klimmeck]

Maybe Convergent designs HD-connect or HD-connect LE are of interest to you.
https://www.convergent-design.com/CD_Products_HDConnect.htm

Greetings
Uwe

[David Rowan]

What about capturing it as DV and then upconvert the clips? That is, export them from FCP as HDV, or use Compressor to do the job? Would this look better, worse or any different than doing it on the fly through an HDV device? I know this would take more time, but if you use compressor perhaps it could work on it in the background while you do other stuff.

DWR

[Pierson Jacquelin]

I think the strategy at this point would be to render selects as HDV and output them to HDV tape, thus making a new master that can be brought into an online/conform later on (if we go in that direction).

Has anyone done this? Does the “upconvert” look OK?

-P

[Pierson Jacquelin]

OK, here’s a question: if I go HDV deck thru the Miranda Box to HD-SDI then into my Kona 2 card, will the timecode make it? Can I edit, then Media Manage my edit and just re-dij/uprez the material I used? I ask becuause I am assuming that normally the Timecode is coming through the RS-422 connection that I use to control the HDCam/Varicam deck…if I were to use the Miranda and it’s advertised “Timecode Out” function through HD-SDI, would I have timecode embedded in the Quicktime?

For that matter, when it comes time to Online/Uprez from HDV tapes, is there a HDV deck out there that is RS-422 controllable for use in the online bay? (as far as I know, the blue HDV deck is only firewire/LAN-C controllable) Or is everyone out there making dubs to HDCam tape from HDV and using those as the Masters…sounds like an ingenious way for Sony to sell twice as much tape!

-Pierson