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How to handle HDV in PPro?
I know this has been talked about a lot but there’s a couple of things I can’t figure out. I’ve seen people talking about doing the work in smaller projects and then compiling those into a final video. However, regardless of how short my sequence is (so far, 10 min is the shortest) I can’t work with all the crashing. HDV seems to be the problem. I don’t even need HD, it will be delivered via web, but the guy wanted HD tapes in exchange for letting us redistribute the presentation internally.
I used two different cameras to cover a 3 hr presentation. One camera (HC1, camera B) was recording 1080i onto tape, the other camera (FX1, camera A) was recording 1080i onto a Glyph drive via OnLocation. My computer is a Mac Pro, 2 x 3.66 GHz Dual-Core intel Xeon, 4 GB 667 memory. I’ve turned off all other programs, run Applejack, and the disk utility booted from the install CD. Everything is running fine and working, except for the dang HDV files.
Is there a way to break up the files into smaller segments? I’ve tried limiting my sequence to 10 min but that doesn’t seem to do it. Also, can you convert HDV mpeg files to SD Quicktime files without putting them in PPro? I don’t need that much resolution but to put them in PPro and try to export as a regular SD Quicktime will, of course, crash the program.
Any help is appreciated, Thanks.
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I shoot in HDV and cut in DV, using the cameras downconvert to capture. I use the scene detect feature with the DV capture to get the breakdown of each stop/start getting each stop/start as a separate clip. Once I cut it ‘offline’ I will open a new project for HDV, and import a trimmed offline using media manager and recapture everything again for online.
If you are only using the footage in SD anyway this method won’t be needed for an online project. But the tapes are still HDV for you client.
So I’d suggest recapturing with down convert to DV switched on. Editing with DV clips.
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The thing is, I captured the bulk of the material with OnLocation directly onto a hard drive, so it’s not on tape. I can’t down convert with the deck.
I think I may have figured it out though. If I start a new HDV 1080i project and do nothing but bring in one clip, drop it in the sequence and export movie using the default DV setting, then I think I’ll have a usable Quicktime file when I’m done.
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