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HD footage to SD timeline???
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Hey thnx! That’s very good news. If you don’t mind me asking…how long of a timeline is it?
thnx again and now I think I have enough info to inform my boss. -
10 minutes. It took about 15 minutes to render on a 2.66 Dual-Core MacPro. Mostly cuts, dissolves, a bit of color-correction and one 10 second clip with SmoothCam.
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A problem has cropped up in my EX footage when rendered in a DV-NTSC timeline. I applied slow- mo (30%) in FCP to a couple of clips. I do this all the time with my DVCAM footage with acceptable results, but when these EX clips are rendered in a DV timeline, the result is horrible. It just looks like every other frame is missing, as though no frame-blending is applied. Not usable at all. The footage, by-the-way, was shot in the SP (HDV) mode at 1080-60i.
The slo-mo looks fine when I render the footage in an HDV timeline.
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Two things. Firstly why drop the HD into a DV timeline? Drop it into an uncompressed timeline to minimise the codec loss of DV. especially if you are then going to mpeg for DVD.
Secondly, the slo mo issue is due to different field orders. HD is upper and DV is lower. You can fix this by making a QT movie of the slo mos in the HD timeline and putting the new clip on top of the slo mo in the HD timeline. There is a problem rendering slo mos when the shift field filter is applied which is what is likely happening when you drop and HD timeline into a DV sequence.
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“Firstly why drop the HD into a DV timeline?”
That’s what I thought, but this is the method that this “expert” uses, so I though I would give it a try. It seems to be faster, and the end result looked to me to be very close to what I got by editing in a “Native” timeline and then out to Compressor, except, of course, for the slo-mo.
Thanks for the tip. I’m sure the field issue is what I am seeing.
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I think it should be DVCpro50 not DV
see
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ex1_sd_output_young.html
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