HDV Editing

[Chris Wright]

google “green screen tips”

should have generalspeiist.com or something, best site I’ve ever seen about getting started.

[Ryan Stone]

Thanks Chris,

That is a great site. Bookmarked and saved 🙂

Ryan

[Bart Straman]

if the mutiple HDV files are lurching to much of your pc you can always use proxy’s and replace them in the final step with your HDV footage. Videocopilot has a tutorial on how to use them (https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/proxies_and_workflow_tips/)

Bart

[Brendan Coots]

If it were me, I’d convert your HDV footage to Animation Codec or 8/10 bit uncompressed before doing anything in AE. HDV is 4:2:0 which means it’s no better than DV. It’s true that a conversion won’t “add” any detail, but it will:

– make it easier to do things like color correction

– eliminate the need to use proxies. HDV will choke AE badly due to its interframe compression (similar to MPEG4) and that is something you will HAVE to deal with one way or the other

– eliminate the quality loss you will incur when you render out of AE, then render out of your edit. That is a LOT of extra rendering and you will suffer quality loss unless you step up to a lossless or uncompressed format.

Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

[David Bogie]

[Ryan Stone] “This will be my first time editing HDV in AE. It’s a music video shot against a green screen and would like any tips or information that could help me get things right the first time around. “

Forget trying to get it right the first time. None of us ever do that.

[Ryan Stone] I’m importing and largely editing in Premiere and then copying to AE for the effects. Should I be deinterlacing in Premiere or AE> Also, any suggestions on making the process simpler and easier for my computer when dealing with multiple keyed layers? “

You shouldn’t deinterlace anything unless you know why you’re asking the question.
As other have said, working in a long GOP, highly compressed format like HDV’s MPEG2, you can save yourself tons of hassles by converting the footage you are going to be using to more conventional, easier to edit, format like.

bogiesan

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