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Help- FCP 5 HDV v SD question
Hi,
I’m a fairly experience FCP 5 user working on my first HDV project on a 1.67 GHz Power book with 1 GB RAM, and despite spending the past day seaching the forums, I’m very confused about my options.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.Project: I need to edit a DVD for a client that will play on any DVD player. The problem is I have a mix of Sony HDV footage ( capture settings 1080i50) and SD footage.
Should I:
A) Downconvert the HDV footage to SD in FCP 5 and edit the entire project in SD, then send to DVD Studio Pro. If so what settings should I use to downconvert? Will the finished project look like a SD DV project?
B) Or should I try to edit in HD? If so what settings should use? Can I embed the SD footage as a smaller window in the HDV footage? How do I do this?
Or should I upsize the SD footage using a plugin like ReSizer|?When I export the project to DVD Studio Pro, will the HDV project then play on SD televisions? Is a HDV DVD much better quality?
Apologies for the many questions, I’m just finding it very difficult finding out the best solution. I’m sure many users have had similar experiences, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rob
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2 Replies
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If you edit in DV and later decide you want it in HDV you will have to reedit it. If you edit and master in HDV you wont have to redo it if you want HDV later.
Once it is edited in HDV, send it to compressor and us one of the DVD set ups it will encode your HDV video into SD DVD files, you can then make your SD DVD in DVD Studio Pro.
However I don’t know how well our computer will handle editing HDV footage. Editing HDV video is vary processor Intensive so I would not recommend doing it in anything less then a G5. Run some tests with your system to see hoe it handles it.
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Good luck editing HDV with those computer specs…it’s gonna be hard working on anything other than a G5 with at least 2gb ram…you might run into some problems. I personally would downconvert the whole project to SD. It will still look cleaner and crisper than the actual SD footage. Think of it this way: films are shot in 35mm even though 99% of the population don’t have projectors in their homes, because the quality of the image carries through in any format, and the same thing goes for HD.
It doesn’t matter what format you edit the project in, as long as you correctly burn the DVD it will play on all TVs. The only way to watch actual HD on a tv is to shoot in HD, edit in HD, burn an HD DVD in an HD DVD burner, and play the dvd in a HD DVD player on an HD tv.
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