HVX200 best SD workflow

[David Battistella]

Shoot everything on DVCPRO50 codec. This will give you 4:2:2 quality and you will get a lot of space of the P2 Cards. It will also allow you to take advantage shooting “speed between 4-60 fps”.

If you are only going SD then this will help you get eh most out of the camera and your cards.

You could shoot HD and edit HD and then downconvert to 10 bit uncompressed in SD but I think that you are best to stick with the DVCPRO 50 codecs and work wiwth them natively in SD. It will save you a lot of time in post.

David

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[Brian]

Shoot everything on DVCPRO50 codec. This will give you 4:2:2 quality and you will get a lot of space of the P2 Cards. It will also allow you to take advantage shooting “speed between 4-60 fps”.

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i think actually the variable frame rate is only in 720p.

also, barry green did some tests and it looks like the dv50 is better than downconverted hd. assuming of coure your final output is SD.

[Stan Timek]

Brian, is Barry Green’s test on-line somewhere? I’m interested in using the HVX for a project and my intended work flow is to shoot and edit 720P/24 with immediate distribution as an SD broadcast. (I wanted to have the HD archived for future distribution) I’m concerned about the quality of the SD downconversion, this won’t be a big budget project.

Any comments from the field?

Stan Timek

Pollywog Theater

[Barry Green]

I tested DV50 and DV, both from SD and HD origination (so, capturing in DV, or capturing in DV50, or downconverting HD to DV in-camera). DV50 looked noticeably better than DV, and the native DV looked a bit sharper than the HD downconverted to DV did.

HD downconverted to uncompressed SD looks better than DV, and it looks about the same as DV50 — to the point that I wouldn’t even bother with shooting HD for downconversion if I knew my end project was going to be SD; I’d shoot DV50 instead. If you know you’re going to want an HD version of your project and an SD version too, then shooting HD and downconverting works well; just don’t downconvert to DV; downconvert to DV50.

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[Stan Timek]

Thanks Barry, that’s great info. I’ll definately go to the lesser compressed SD format in the downconversion.

Stan Timek

Pollywog Theater

[Carlos]

Hi Barry,
I am about to shoot two music videos with the HVX200 this coming week and I am finishing with a digibeta master so I would like to shoot in DV50 but I still want to uses the variable speed options in some shots….How would you go about it? mixing 720P HD with the DV50, or shoot everything in in HD?. I am planning to color correct in SDI uncompressed with the finished master.

Thank you in advance,

Carlos