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HDV graphics
I am shooting most of my stuff HDV these days, but I’m still delivering primarily SD. It seems like most who have a similiar workflow are capturing native HDV, editing on an HDV timeline, and then down converting to SD via compressor when the edit is complete. This seems to work just fine for me, but I have a question…
I am working on a project that is very graphic intensive (full screen graphics). In this case would it be best to still work on an HDV timeline and make the graphics with a much larger resolution, (much larger files) or should I just downconvert during capture, edit on a DV timeline, and use the standard 720×480 graphics?
Has anyone tried both ways and had better results with one of them?
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6 Replies
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Brian- If you are running FCP6 there is an interesting option in your HDV project sequence settings. Select the render control tab and under render>codec> choose Apple ProRes 422. This new option may be just what you are looking for.
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I leave the codec renderer at HDV until I’m done, then I change it to ProRes (deleting hdv renders first) then render that out.
Very clean!
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I don’t have FCP 6 just yet. What would you suggest in the meantime?
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Borjis,
regarding deleting the original render files, are you just going to the render folder and trashing everything?
Thanks,
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Brian,
I’m using native HDV in SD timelines with NTSC sized graphics, for SD stuff this works great, render in ProRes or 8bit uncompressed.
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[Randall M] “regarding deleting the original render files, are you just going to the render folder and trashing everything?”
yes
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