Formatting Questions

Chris Borjis
December 15, 2008 at 5:34 pm

[Matthew Cook] “So my questions: Have I gotten the best results I can out of the DV footage?

Should I also run the Canon footage through Compressor before combining the two sources in the timeline? Make them more similar to each other?”

I think you have gotten the best you can out of the DV footage.

I would run the canon footage through compressor, or recapture as prores 1080 so it matches.

one thing though…..was the deliverable SD or HD?

If it was SD I would have posted the entire thing as SD as that would look more
uniform than SD being upconverted.
Matthew Cook
December 15, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Thank you!

I’m trying to deliver HD for broadcast purposes and SD for DVD as many of my fans don’t have HD players. I’ve found ways to export my sequences as both HD and SD. Is this just pointless? Would I get better results in both cases if I just work in SD?

One problem I’ve been encountering is that if I zoom in too far on the DV footage it looks like crap.
Nick Haffie-emslie
December 15, 2008 at 6:10 pm

You may want to check with the broadcaster about specifications before you get too deep into this project. Many will not accept uprezzed SD footage and are pretty specific about origination format requirements for HD.

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