DVCPro to H264 for archiving?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Put them both in a full raster ProRes timeline that matches the frame rates and be done with it.

[Noah Kadner]

I would save all of the HDV captured footage and the DVCPROHD footage as it was captured- using Media Manager. Again- don’t overthink things. The formats you are using are first generation and are already very highly compressed codec-wise. There’s no upside to adding a generation and switching them to another codec. Just copy them off to a hard drive and be done with it.

Noah

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[Isaac Brillant]

OK, thanks everyone.
Noah – when you say “I would save all of the HDV captured footage and the DVCPROHD footage as it was captured- using Media Manager” are you talking about the “copy” option in media manager (as opposed to the recompress option)?

thanks again

[Mike Ironriver]

Maybe this is not really the answer you were looking for, but Adobe PP CS5 can export your edited sequence as P2 format (in all DVCPROHD formats your camera supports). So you just keep what you need, and also in the original format.