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HDV slow-mo / fast forward
Was wondering if any one has found a formula, plug-in or output that gives the smoothest playback in either slow-mo or fast forward concerning HDV?
It seems it likes it better naitively but when you come done to SD its quite jaggy?
I am aware of the opposite field orders between HDV and SD but I’m still not happy with the result.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Andrew -
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hi Andrew
did you try a prores HQ and optical flow workflow?
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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Thanx Hector
I haven’t done that before.
Could you talk me through the steps?
Working with FCP 6 across Sony HDV Firewire.
Thanx -
what is your final format?
what format did you shoot?go to audio/video settings and set your capture preset to hdv-prores hq, this will capture HDV and transcode it to prores
then cut and do all work on a prores timeline, clips you want to do speed changes to you can send to motion and use optical flow as your frame blending option.
this will take some time but give you fairly good results depending on your footage and what you are trying to do.
actually, once you captured prores you could try to slowmo in FCP and see if it looks ok to you.
once you are done with everything export as quicktime movie using current settings
then re-import and place in a prores SD timeline, this time forcing timeline settingsits one way to do it…
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting -
Thanks Hector.
I will give it a go. -
Thanx Hector.
Went the ProRes HQ route. Slo mos and fast forwards in FCP alone are marked improvement.
I shot the footage omn a Z1 with PAL 50i and am looking to output to DVD and Flash stream on the web.
Any tips on DVD encoding the ProRes to disc?One thing I did notice was the massive file sizes, a 30 second clip took up over 600MB!
Is there a lower grade Prores (still capturing in HDV) that you can suggest to limit file sizes?
Thanks for your help.
Andrew
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