DVCPro HD to DV timeline conversion?

[Shane Ross]

You can…by using the Meda manager and the RECOMPRESS option. It will take a while, but it will do it.

[mortimer heathcliff] “At this point, I just made a DV timeline, then copied and pasted the contents of the DVCPro HD timeline into it,”

Why are you doing this? How do you get previews to your clients? In what format?

Currently you are adding a step that, to me, makes no sense. Export a QT Movie…reference movie. Take that into Compressor…choose your preset…change the dimensions to be 16:9. 640×360, 320×180…whathaveyou.

Or get the Turbo.264 from Elgato. Nice presets and really adds speed to the encoding process.

Shane

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[J. Tad newberry]

The reason I was doing that sounds odd, I’m sure. The shots are all BetacamSP, captured in the DV codec, but then put on a DVCPro HD timeline. The reason I am doing this is that I have found that the graphics look much better when created in an HD timeline than in a DV timeline, even when rendered out and watched on an SD DVD and SD NTSC monitor. So when sending a small mpeg-4 to my clients via yousendit (or my iDisk), it was quicker to render a single QT from the timeline if it was an SD timeline rather than an HD timeline. From there, I just drag the QT onto a Compressor droplet and voila! I know it seems like a lot of steps, but it seems to be giving me the best results so far.

Also, I no longer go straight to Compressor from the timeline. It takes Compressor forever to make the mpeg-4 files from the timeline than from an a single QT…and FCP can render out that single QT fairly quickly. The other good thing about rendering out this way is that once you have the single QT file, you can drag it to any one of several droplets for use on a DVD, internet, or whatever (but I’m guessing you already knew all that stuff…) : )

thanks again!

mh