Hdv Workflow

[David Roth weiss]

Jim,

Suicide might be your best bet. This is simply a horrible job. You’re probably going to have to convert all the NTSC to PAL, then cut in PAL, and convert the finished project to NTSC. Hope you have a PAL monitor…

DRW

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Gunleik Groven]

As for convertion, Graeme Nattress has a nifty plug.It’s also pretty cheap.

http://www.nattress.com

Gunleik

[Lu Nelson]

I would digitize all the stuff each in their original format, then use media manager ‘recompress’ to export everything to a single unified OFFLINE format, and edit in that for a while. When you get close to your fine cut, reconnect everything and do a media manager TRIM, to export a new project file, and delete media you’re not using (use “copy” rather than “use existing”, if you don’t want to eliminate all the original footage just yet). Then you can look at converting the media you’ve got to deal with to a single ONLINE format (PAL to NTSC, HDV to NTSC, e.g.), since there should be much less of it at that point.

also note: that the best NTSC<->PAL conversions are now done by Compressor 2; but they’re slow.

[Gunleik Groven]

Is this better than Graeme’s plug?

Gunleik

[Lu Nelson]

Compressor 2 uses Optical Flow. It will batch convert your files at a very high quality — if you use the best quality options in all cases it will take an enormous amount of time but it is superior to any of the frame rate conversion software out there: magic bullet, DVFilm, Nattress etc.; as long as you can afford to wait for it.

Also beware it does not preserve the timecode or original logging data of your clips.

[Jimr]

Thanx all for suggestions,
I did bring all in at orig Formats, I was hoping I could down rez The Hdv by just making selections & putting in a DV Timeline
But I guess That would be alot of rendering? Media manager sounds like a good Idea but dont think I’ll have enough storage
(not working with a Raid) one 500gb big Disk Extreme

Thanx again
JimR

PS suicide not a option just yet!

[Mark Maness]

I think the question you need to ask is…. how much money am I going to make off of this and can I afford to expand my equipment on this project? It sounds to me like you need to invest in more drive space.

I think the earlier idea of editing in PAL with a PAL monitor is a valid solution for you. Then the problem would have to be to convert your program into NTSC with Compressor2. If not, then I think you’d have no choice but to have the footage converted for you.

What capture card do you have? That can make a difference for you in the HDV realm. If you have a AJA IO or IO LA, you can capture all of the HDV using the machine downconvert to DV so that will eleviate that problem.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions