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DVCPRO HD 720p60 to 10-bit
Hello All,
Trying to convert DVCPRO HD 720p60 24fps to uncompressed 10-bit 29.97 and still be able to preserve the aspect ratio. letter box or no letter box.
In the end this is going to d-beta.
We want to do this without using hardware.
Thanks,
steve.
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5 Replies
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How are you going to ouput to digibeta without hardware? You need a capture card to output to digibeta. And DIgibeta doesn’t really have a 16:9 anamorphic setting. Digibeta is a 4:3 medium, so getting DVCPRO HD to digibeta would mean letterboxing the footage. Oh, and since DVCPRO HD is an 8-bit codec, you will gain nothing but file size. Use an 8-bit uncompressed SD codec for this.
Shane
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You can definately do this in the media manager. I can’t look into the specifics right now as I have a render running, but I’ll look into it and get back to you. If you haven’t used the media manager, read up on it in the FCP manual – You might figure the problem out quickly.
Best,
Ben
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I’ll take a look at the manual.
We only have a BMD card but no d-beta.
We are trying to minimize costs as much as possible.
Thanks,
steve.
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We use After Effects for this. Export the QT ref out of FCP and import into AE. Go to interpret footage and change the default pixel aspect ratio from the DVCProHD setting to square pixels. Drop this into a new comp 23.976fps D1 720×486. Hit Command/Option/F to fit this to the comp for anamorphic output, or hit command/option/shift/H to letterbox. Then render to 10bit QT with the render setting set to lower field first and choose any of the pulldown orders. You will then end up with a D1 QT running 29.97 with pulldown.
-Matt Silverman
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If your client or whomever is getting the Digibeta, make sure they want it letterboxed.
If it’s being made for eventual DVD compression they might actually want it left as anamorphic.
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