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Hey Luke – Multibridge and HDV
Will the new multibridge enable you to bring in HDV footage from a Z1 at 10-bit res into FCP?
also will it enable capture of HDV at 1920 instead of the anamorphic 1440?
Thanks
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Hi Robin,
Yes, you can already achieve this with the existing Multibridge and will also be able to do it with the new Multibridges. Please see the support note How to achieve maximum quality with HDV cameras. The Multibridge will take the component HD output of the HDV camera and digitize it in to HD-SDI which you can capture as 10-bit uncompressed if you like. The support note documents when this will achieve greater quality than Firewire and when it will not so please review the note and let me know if you have any further questions.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
Half answered it but I have some more questions:
With footage that has been shot on tape if I wanted to capture it in 10-bit the advantage would be that any grading/graphics that I put on top of the image would all be managed in 10-bit mode on a 10-bit timeline. Is this possible?
Secondly in order to capture in component mode how would I achieve this? Would I have to capture into FCP as I shot the footage? Or is there another way? Seems to me that one could put together a fairly compact rig to capture in 10-bit through component, perhaps with a modified Powerbook, or just on a small deck?
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