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Edited HDV footage to SD Help ASAP!
I have a project that I captured as HDV1080i60. I edited it in a 29.97 timeline. I need to make a SD preview DVD. How do I downconvert the edited piece to SD? Export as QT? QT Conversion? Using Compressor? And then convert it to what?
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What I did was to create a sequence that was NTSC/DV. Select all and copy the clips in the HDV edited sequence. Paste the clips into the NTSC/DV sequence. They should come in scaled automatically for 16:9 letterbox. If you want a full frame. Scale the clips up to 67% and adjust the clips position to make sure your framing is correct. Pan and scan. 🙂
I would suggest rendering 1 clip and check playback on a NTSC monitor for any field problems. I had a field problem and by applying the shift fields effect fixed it all up. I think the fact that HDV is upper field dominant and DV is lower filed dominant causes this problem. Then export to QuickTime movie with the same settings as the sequence. Use that file to make the DVD.
I’m sure there are other ways to get there. It’s just the method I use.
Good luck!
Bruce
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This topic has been covered MANY times here please do a search.
ASAP help is only a search away.
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This is one of my pet peeves; Someone has an emergency
“Help ASAP!!!!!!!!”, they get 2 answers, one of them almost 3 hours later, but no acknowledgement from the person in such dire need of help. Maybe they did a search, maybe it wasn’t such an emergency. I know that, for me, when I hear the “I need help now!” plea, I don’t necessarily react right away (maybe because I remember the “boy who cried wolf” story). 🙂
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Bruce- Thanks! This was very helpful. I’ve definitely run into quite a few field problems as well as cadence issues, but this method seems to work the best of everything I’ve tried thus far. You are right about HDV being upper dominant and SD being lower, which definitely threw me when I first tried to downconvert! It looked AWFUL. This didn’t quite fix everything, but it’s definitely an improvement:-)
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Actually, Ed, I did do a search and wasn’t able to find much right away. The first response was very helpful, and when it came through I was in the middle of trying to work through the issues so I didn’t have time to test it AND post a response; am just now having a chance to do that. And that first response came through in a very timely manner:-)
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Give the freeware MPEG Streamclip a try, it does a very decent downscale, is fast and easy to use.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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