HDV to DVCPro HD

[Paul Belanger]

Are you saying component out of HDV deck looping into a DVCPro deck?
How is timecode going this way?
Why do people mix these formats. Uggh

[David Roth weiss]

Paul,

The timecode is probably an issue, but at least you can capture as uncompressed DVCpro100 that way without converting in the computer.

Let me know what you end up doing…

DRW

[Paul Belanger]

I think my best bet is to convert the 7 hours of DVCPro HD footage to HDV.
I can do this with Quicktime conversion.
Then capture the 18 hours of HDV tapes.
Then all my stuff will be HDV format.
I belive my Kona 2 will let me monitor and output HDV.
I’ll have to output to Digibeta.
I think the Kona 2 will handle this HD – SD output as well.

[Shane Ross]

No No No no no!!!!

HDV is by far the WORSE FORMAT YOU CAN EVER WORK WITH. NO…work in a DVCPRO HD format.

Avoid HDV at all costs. Get your footage out of that format as soon as your can. the Kona works with DVCPRO HD footage very well. I just onlined with it and it went smoother than anything…

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[David Roth weiss]

Paul,

Thats not what I would do. You’re much better off editing DVCPro100, which is an i-frame format.

DRW

[Paul Belanger]

I’m still left with how I get all the HDV tapes into DVCPro HD format.
Unless I capture all in HDV then convert it to DVCPro HD using QT conversion.

Yeah like I’m the first guy to have this problem. I don’t think so.

[Shane Ross]

To be honest, you are not the first person who needed to do this. Others who have had this need captured their HDV as DVCPRO HD…thus the reason we are all saying take that route.

How did they do it? Capture Cards and decks…ones that worked together. Either a Kona LH and an HDV deck with component outs, or a Kona 2 with an HD/SDI>Analogue converter box to get the footage in.

If you don’t have that, you need to find a place that does, or buy it. if you will be shooting a LOT of HDV, that it might be a wise investment. HDV as a format should never be used for editing…I argue against using it for shooting, but that stops no one…thus the need to capture it at a more compatible and editable format, DVCPRO HD.

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “HDV as a format should never be used for editing…I argue against using it for shooting, but that stops no one…”

I don’t agree with Shane completely as HDV can be cheap and beautiful, a great combination. However, in this case you’re much better off forgetting about the timecode and simply capturing the HDV as DVCPro100.

DRW

[Paul Belanger]

Thanks for all your input.
Somebody needs to school these clients more about formats.
Just because HDV is lower cost isn’t a great reason to use it.
They will end up with these headache. It isn’t going to get an easier.
Thanks

[Nick Meyers]

i havent read ALL hte posts in htis trhtread,

so sory if this has already been covered:

there are a few new boxes that will convert a FW HDV signal to an HD signal.
(we will be using one of these later in the year)

one is being advertised right on these very pages:
the HD-Connect

https://www.convergent-design.com/index.html

also check out the Miranda HD Bridge:

https://www.miranda.com/product.php?i=323&l=1

cheers,
nick