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  HDV / Pro Res Work flow for Documentary – Please Help!

  Posted by Lisa Rolley on July 1, 2008 at 1:08 am

  Hey everyone,

  I posted a week ago about this project which I am about to take on and now I have some more questions which need to be answered for the director by the end of day tomorrow. This is a 90 minute documentary for festival delivery and maybe broadcast in the very end – during the editorial process as more footage is ingested and edited additional reels will be created for funding purposes.

  About 10 hours of footage has already been captured in Berlin (HDV 1080i 50) and now the drive along with the FCP project file are being sent here to NYC.

  45% of the footage is shot in HDV PAL:
  25fps
  pixel format HD (1440×1080)
  Compressor 1080i50

  5% Anamorphic DV PAL

  50% HD not yet shot but director waiting for funding to finish shooting (not sure yet what they will shoot with but i am guessing it will be PAL – P2 or XDCAM)

  I am being asked to organize the Berlin footage and project file off a lacie drive and log and capture the rest of the HDV footage (another 10 hours worth of tapes) here in NYC all onto 1 Lacie 500 Gb Firewire drive.

  I am trying to figure out what work flow makes the most sense for this project and I have actually just finished watching Lynda.com’s tutorial on HD work flow in which Pro Res ingesting of HDV as well transcoding of already ingested HDV footage is discussed in terms of delivery.

  I want to know whether it should all be cut in HDV off the Lacie firewire drive until picture is locked and then just transcode the final sequence to Pro Res or if I should transcode the HDV footage which has already been ingested as such (10 hrs) and ingest the other 10 hours as pro res. Also something to consider is that another 50% of footage which has yet to even be shot will be in some format of higher HD (i.e. P2 or XDCAM) – and how this will best be incorporated.

  I guess the most important consideration because time and money matter on this low budget doc is what i need help with. Can I even edit of that drive with pro res – does it make sense to edit in HDV and just transcode the locked final sequence to pro res for delivery?

  I really need some pro help here guys.

  Thank you everyone for reading this and any help / advice would be awesome.

  Best

  the “new to HD workflows” Lisa Rolley : )

  Lisa Rolley replied 17 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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