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DVCPROHD1080i60 to H.264 SD720 4:3
Ok, I’m sure this has come up before but I didn’t have any luck finding it on the forum. So forgive me.
I need to make DVCPROHD 1080i60 files into SD 720×486 4:3(poss 16×9 also).
Since this is a TV commercial for broadcast and will be uploaded via ftp they need to be QTH.264 files.I tried a few from the Suite 2 timeline with not the best success and even some crashes crashed I even tried thru QTpro which worked nice although it made my 720×486 movies(640×480)
I’m new to DVCPROHD and the “UPPER fields” it creates. Do I need to select interlace as well?
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How do you want to convert the 16:9 to 4:3? Letterboxed with black bars at the top and bottom? Or cropped, losing image at the right and left?
I guess the easiest way would be to use the realtime Pan&Scan features of Suite 2 to place your 16:9 HD material in a 4:3 SD timeline to actually scale and crop to your needs. Of course the issue of going from 60i to 29.97i is another topic; not sure if Suite2 does handle that. But of course you could do such a conversion in e.g. Compressor or Episode or AE, depending on which software you have available.
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Athough the codec /config setup is 1080i60 it’s still in 29.97 format. (got me on that one)
I just need to crop it 4:3. I set up the Grx in AE for SD safe knowing I needed both HD and SD versions.
I’ve never tried the pan-scan thing in media100. Maybe I’ll try that. As well as in AE. -
Thanks for the guidance on this FLOH. After trying Compressor, QTpro, AJA, AE… The best conversion from 108Oi HD to SD 4:3 720 is to copy the project from the 1080i timeline and paste it directly into a 525i NTSC program. I did have to change the config to ntsc 601 or else the COLOR was too saturated. It will render it quickly and it looks great!
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