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I have a good HD raw, to SD final product workflow…. Sort of…Need a little more assistance.
So, I’ve been researching, testing and pulling my hair to get an acceptable result when editing my Apple Pro Res 422 footage down to an SD project… With only a few caveats I am feeling successful. Just need to know if anyone has an easy way to deal with formatting errors. Anyway, here is the workflow I’ve modified to work with NTSC https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ex1_sd_output_young.html
Basically he says edit the sequence in a native (to the raw footage) timeline and then, once you are done editing, go to easy setup and set it up as an NTSC Anamorphic project and create a new sequence. There are a few settings you need to change in the settings of that sequence. But you copy your HD timeline into this new timeline and render it out. It really looks a 100 times better then just trying to compress the HD timeline.
The issues I’m running into is some of the individual clips don’t format into the timeline properly, they are way to big. Yet some conform nicely. However on another project, most of the clips need to be adjusted to fit the NTSC DV anamorphic project. Am I missing a setting? Is there an easier way. I’m not loosing sleep over this… yet… but I am growing increasingly frustrated. Please, any assistance would be great. .
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Brilliant… it always amazes me how simple the answers are. However, it also amazes me when I don’t know something I should. My last question is on my variation of Ken’s tutorial. Since I am creating an SD DVD with this timeline should I keep field dominance at Lower (even) since the final product will be an interlaced project? I tried putting it to none but I’m just noticing some edge jitter when there is sharp movement of the subject.
Any insight into that would be great before I go through burning a DVD.
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Never mind… I just did some testing and it looks way better when field dominance is set to “none”. Final test is to put all this knowledge on an SD DVD…. I am not expecting crystal clear but all I want is respectable quality.
Thanks again.
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Well, without divulging my hard knocks approach to learning… we capture from AVCHD cameras using Black Magic Extreme cards. The raw files are ProRes 422 (HQ) at 29.97. One thing I don’t know about ProRes 422(HQ) is if it’s interlaced or Progressive.
I have been writing down these steps and modifying them so we can make this process as easy as possible, I just want to have a total understanding of why it is, when I set field dominance to none, do I get a better quality image.
Thanks for your time Dave, it is much appreciated.
Cheers
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Great. I just wanted the best image quality to start with, but if AVCHD doesn’t benefit from using HQ over normal ProRes, then I will definitely stop doing it. I am of the school that bigger is better, but not when it comes to unnecessary file size. Thanks for that little mind nugget.
I don’t know what you are asking on the second part of your post.
Thanks again.
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Right. I love rendering… :P. I knew there was little chance of degradation with 422, I just didn’t realize that I didn’t have to go as far as 422 (HQ) This will save me a lot of time and space. Thanks again. I just burned my first test DVD… I wouldn’t call it breathtaking but it is the best result yet and 100% acceptable from a client’s perspective.
Thanks again.
ConorLive Free! Play Hard!
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Interesting… I looked at the capture settings and Blackmagic intensity don’t have an option for non (HQ) prores422… I seem to remember the Intensity Extreme we got has more capture options so it may just be as easy as grabbing a software update. I will report back.
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Yeah, the other black magic intensity extreme doesn’t have the option to record regular 422 either… Just(HQ). Oh well.
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