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HDV to SD Convert – Issues arising from Motion altering
Hi there.
I have recently been working with a lot of SD sequences that have been created using HDV1080i footage. The shift fields filter is applied automatically and this seems to fix up most of the shots; however, wherever a shot has been sped up, slowed down, or reversed, it becomes apparent on the final DVD as there is really bad strobing/motion stutter on that particular shot (regardless of the correct field shift being used on the HDV footage).
What is the best way to alter motion with HDV footage that is being dropped into a DV PAL timeline to prevent this and provide a smooth result?
Also – I’ve also noticed that while most of the shots look really clean and smooth on the final DVD, there are instances of a weird kind of colourful flicker apparent on finer details such as hair, grass, etc. I’m currently using the best settings in compressor – any suggestions for getting an overall awesome, clean final DVD given the FCP workflow used?
Please assist! 🙂
Cheers
Bryce -
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As a general rule, avoid DV codec. In PAL it is the only lower field codec so the shift field problem with slo mos is avoided. Either way, uncompressed or ProRes is vastly superior and will help with the fine details.
You can fix the slo mos by pasting the slo mo shots in an HDV timeline, strip off filters and make a quicktime mov self contained of the slo mos.
Bring those back into the SD timeline and copy>paste attributes> filters and any other parameters. Fixed!
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