HDV exported with animation codec

[John Huff]

David,
Just read your profile, I’m way into golf all my life, Pat McGowan and his wife Bonnie and Bonnie’s family are old friends of mine, I remember now Pat came out of California.
John

Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
Eatonton, Georgia

[David Roth weiss]

[John Huff] “Pat McGowan and his wife Bonnie and Bonnie’s family are old friends of mine”

John,

Pat and I go way back to the early days of D-Vision and Discreet edit*. Pat even tried to organize a buyout of edit* after it was “end of lifed,” but Discreet didn’t bite. We’ve been trying to get together to play golf for years. I’m sure we’d both be there pronto if you invite us to play in Augusta…

Have a happy holiday,
David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[David Roth weiss]

[John Huff] “if I exported the SD sequence to MPEG-2 video in Compressor for burning to DVD for submission to the broadcast people, whether the video I would see on TV would be scrunched horizontally or vertically due to a difference in square vs. 1.33/1 pixe”

That should not be an issue.

[John Huff] “(For broadcast at 4:3 on cable TV) Put the HD sequence in an SD sequence as we spoke before, scale it to crop off the sides, then export the SD sequence to an 8-bit uncompressed (Quicktime conversion) file and copy the output to a firewire hard drive, then take the drive to someone who can copy the file to digi-beta tape, then submit that tape to the broadcast people. Is that right?”

Close… First create an 8-bit uncompressed timeline (Pro Res would be good too), cut and paste your HD sequence, then do all the rest. That will about as good as you can get.

[John Huff] “what file format and codec could I export the SD sequence to for printing to mini-DV tape, that would give me the best possible quality (for mini-DV tape.) Could that be an acceptable way to go? Would it improve a little/a lot, over the DVD?”

DV is an improvement over DVD, but in general outputting to a DV tape or file should be avoided, because DV compression will degrade your text and graphics horribly due to the very low color space.

Hope this helps…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[John Huff]

David,
My Comcast Spotlight broadcast standards sheet says “Accepted formats for spot encoding purposes are Beta SP tape, Mini DV (recorded at SP speed only), DVCAM format, or DVC Pro 25 yellow top.” They also mention DGFastChannel, whatever that is. (And they have accepted my DVDs as well.) Does this mean they are not up to speed with digi-beta? If so, do I have an alternate way here to go with beta?

Sure, come on to Augusta, just bring your pull cart and 20 bucks and we’ll whistle our way right down Magnolia Lane! I go nearly every year to the Masters but I have yet to play there. I’m 58 so I’d better get cookin I guess.

Where do you play in LA? In the daytime I mean! I am at a real decent Crenshaw course on Lake Oconee called Cuscowilla (.com). Have a look.

Thanks for your help, you have improved my video.
Best Regards,
John Huff

John Huff
Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
Eatonton, Georgia

[David Roth weiss]

You’re welcome John, I like to help…

DigiBeta is just so darned expensive that they’ve decided to go with everything but… That’s understandable. Your best bet is probably to output to BetaSP as you said you have that capability. Again, its not so much about the video, but rather the text and graphics, which tend to just get eaten away and raunchy when output as DV.

Not playing much these days as I hurt my ankle… Your place looks nice. Pretty humid in the summer?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[John Huff]

David,
Must be a misunderstanding, I’ve never output anything to Beta SP, how would I go about that? Since Beta sp is analog (I think) I don’t have a clue how to transfer from my SD sequence to beta sp. For digibeta you said to put it on a firewire hard drive for transfer to digibeta tape. What about to beta sp tape?
Same process?

If I had to contact someone, what kind of place does this sort of thing, what would they be listed under in the phone book?

Thanks,
John

John Huff
Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
Eatonton, Georgia

[John Nabors]

Hey John, I’m a student at the Art Institute of Atlanta majoring in Video Production. I’m from Madison, GA, and wanted to make a contact in that area. I’m using Sony HD cam, FCP, AE, Photoshop and Illustrator. If I can be of assistance, let me know.