DVCpro HD DVD???

[Chris Borjis]

[walter biscardi] “The Panasonic looks like high quality DVD material at the 2 hour setting. Huge improvements in just two years.”

Walter the Panasonic branded recorders have always had the highest quality and reliability just ahead of pioneer.

I’ve owned one since the end of 2001 and been very pleased with the results and I still use it to this day.

amazing machine. 🙂

[Bbalser]

My 2 cents as someone who works with DVCPRO-HD almost exclusively for the past year.

Edit native DVCPRO-HD Sequence. Either drop that into a 4:3 SD Sequence, then make your MPEG-2 with Compressor. OR go straight out to Comporessor and let it do the conversion. There is an “SD (Automatic)” setting in Compressor that works great. If you need to crop it down to 4:3 you can do that in Compressor also.

All the info you need is in the “Compressor Quick-Start Guide” that sells on-line for around $23. I consider it a MUST-HAVE for all FCP users.

It’s easy, produces better images than if I had shot and editing in SD to begin with, and takes as much time to encode the MPEG-2 files as SD Sequences of the same length do.