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HDV to 4:3 DV
This may be very basic, but I’m just getting started working in HD. We got a new Canon XL-H1, so we shot some video in HDV. However, we are still working in 4:3 DV. Everything I’ve tried to do to downconvert the HDV results in either an anamorphic SD sequence or a letterboxed sequence. I’d like to keep the 4:3 center of the image and discard the “wings”. If I scale up the letterboxed sequence to fill the frame vertically, it gets soft. Can anyone tell me the best workflow to downconvert 16×9 HDV to 4×3 DV? Thank you.
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[Mitch Jordan] “If I scale up the letterboxed sequence to fill the frame vertically, it gets soft.”
Not if you render.
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Do I have to worry about field order? Are HDV and DV the same?
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Mitch,
Well, if you shoot 30p you can ignore fields, if you shoot 60i and put it in a DV timeline it will automatically add the shift fields filter.
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