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incorporating mixed footage into one sequence
Hello,
I have a bunch of footage, the vast majority of which is HDV at 24p. The small percentage of the rest is PAL DV. Can anyone recommend methods for incorporating these two different formats together? Will the PAL footage have to be scaled? Or letterboxed with a ton of black space if it is not scaled? I’m probably going to keep my sequence at HDV.
Thanks for any and all help,
dan
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3 Replies
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It’s always best to edit using only one codec. I suggest you convert your PAL DV to HDV. Yes, you’re going to have to blow up the DV and the quality will suffer. If you have a hardware card like a Kona you’ll get the best up-convert results. Otherwise, Compressor will probably do the best job. Be sure to turn on Frame Controls and choose Best for all the quality settings.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
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thanks for the reply John,
I have done some experiments with compressor and the result is pretty good. My image does get rather squished though, the subjects are fatter and wider. Is there a way around this? Should I be cropping the image before I upconvert?
thanks again,
dan -
You can set frame dimensions and crop in the Geometry tab in Compressor’s Inspector.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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