HDV or ProRes to get best MPEG2 for SD DVD??

[Rory Brennan]

For stability reasons I always export a QT from FCP to take to compressor as I never really have much luck going straight from FCP into compressor.
That said, I would export “same as source” (HDV) then bring that into compressor. If you export ProRes, you are running your video through an additional compression, which I believe won’t help improve quality.
Finally, make sure your compression settings are correct. Do you want letterbox, anamorphic, middle-cut or crop’d sides. The more you start changing the video around the more problems you will have as compressor isn’t a several thousand dollar hardware unit.

Rory Brennan
Editor
New York City

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[Ben Scott]

i agree if just straight editing then keep in native hdv, although when do you not apply effects.

sorry to complicate things but think it important to note

if doing effects it is recommended to render HDV to prores (i put in a recent podcast)

therefore it may be that most of your timeline may be in prores and not HDV so you would probably be best in that instance to be sending out prores qt and then encoding from that

also prores should transcode quicker than hdv

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[Ben Ged low]

Hi guys,

I’m outputting a ProRes QT, which I will then import into Compressor to make my MPEG2. I’ve wanted to use ProRes for awhile. This will be a good test.

I always worry that straight HDV, when it is mastered as a QT, and THEN goes to MPEG2 … that I’ll get more artifacting in the dissolves and effects.

I’m thinking the ProRes is so much less compressed, that there will be less chance of funkiness in the MPEG2. Touch wood.

ProRes seems to export faster too.

Thanks for the help,

Ben

[Mark Maness]

You do realize that in FCP 6.02, y0ou cen set your renders to ProRess 422 if you are using HDV or XDCAM HD.

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[Ben Ged low]

Thank you Wayne,

Yeah, I just figured that out. So that would mean that my project (timeline) is still in HDV, but my renders (dissolves, color corrections, etc.) are all in ProRes?

Would that make any difference if my final export master was still HDV?

And I’m under the impression that no matter what the rendering of the FCP timeline, when you export out all the clips are re-rendered in whatever codec you choose for the export… have I got that right?

B.