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HDV to SD 4:3 downconversion? (big doubt)
Hello,
I would like to do a downconversion from HDV to SD, but i wolud need that the downconverted footage looked like 4:3, without letterbox. And i don’ t know if this is posible with decklink. I have checked it out with a decklink pro but it only allows me to downconvert to 16:9.
If this wasn’t imposible i would apreciate a help. I’m going to work with a tv station, and i have to give them the master on dvcpro50 tapes. I’m going to buy a sony hdv can and i wanted to shoot in HDV and then do a downconversion with a decklink pro to print to a dvcpro deck through sdi. But i can’t wok with a letterbox image.
Another posibility is to downconvert the hdv to dv with the camcorder and then edit to tape thorugh sdi to the deck on a dv timeline, but i don’t know if i’m going to lose too much quality.
As you see i have a lot of doubts….
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Why don’t you take your mastered HDV timeline as source and drop it into a SD sequence for the center crop version?
I don’t know what editing system you’re on, but in Final Cut Pro, the workflow would be:
1) Edit native HDV
2) Create SD sequence (probably 10-bit Uncompressed)
3) Drag HDV Master sequence into SD sequence as source
4) Adjust DVE for Center Crop
5) Render and output SD sequence to tapeMatt Small
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