DVCPro HD to HDV via Sony HVR-M15U

[Rafael Amador]

[Evan Meszaros] “but my only option is using the Sony HVR-M15U”
Hi Evan,
Why is your only option?
Rafael

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[David Roth weiss]

[Rafael Amador] “Why is your only option?”

I want to know too…

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[Evan Meszaros]

I only have access to the M15U. My budget has bloated beyond compare, and this is the only favor I have left.

I have an HDCAM master, but it is being used at another festival…

[Rafael Amador]

I don’t know what kind of screen or projector will you use, but can’t you play your movie from a laptop?
Rafael

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[Evan Meszaros]

In my experience, 96mins from a laptop can be risky – between dropped frames and RT issues, it could be trouble for a live screening.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Evan,
With a FW800 HD you shouldn’t have any problem playing DVCProHD or even ProRess.
Is a pity that you have to crunch DVCproHD to HDV for screening.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Andrew Kimery]

[Evan Meszaros] “I can make a new sequence with the HDV 1080i compressor, but what frame size should I use. (960×720 seems the obvious choice, but will the deck play that back?) Also, what frame rate? I don’t think the M15U plays back 24P… So If I make it 29.97, what should the key frame settings be?
Make a new sequence, open sequence settings, click “load sequence presets” and select the HDV 1080i60 settings. Trying to ‘roll your own’ sequence settings is just asking for trouble. W/that said, I wouldn’t trust FCP to do the frame rate conversion in the timeline. If it was me I’d export a reference movie of your DVCPro HD timeline and use Compressor to do the conversion.

All of this is probably an exercise in futility if I cannot record to the PDV 124N DVCAM tapes – but I assume THAT is at least possible. “
The M15U can take full-size DV tapes.

-A

[Gino Kalkanoglu]

I have the same issue. Mine is little more complicated though. Okay it sounds crazy but I edited an hour show using the entire footage coming out of Canon HG 10 AVCHD camera. Then I export the timeline as a QT movie file with the settings at 1920X1080 30p DVCPRO HD and ended up with 1 hr 40 GB QT file. It looks great on my 24 inch LCD. Then I made a DVD out of it. IT looked great. No jitter lines nothing.
Then I was asked to air this on a TV channel. My producer bought a Sony HVRM15AU to put this footage on an either DVCAM or HDV format.
What do I do? I guess I need to put the QT file on the final cut 6 on an HDV 1080i timeline (thats what the TV channel wants. 1080i) and render it. Then I print to video this footage on an HDV tape. Would it solve the problem? I never done this before and I have about two weeks left. The deck will arive tomorrow and I need to figre out a way to do this right. IT seems like I will be doing this again.
Should I bring AVCHD on an AIC timeline then export it out to 1920X1080 60i deinterlaced then print to tape? Should I stick with HDV instead of DVCAM output? What do you all think? Thanks.