integrading DVcam On HDV timeline

[Renjith]

yes, but u will nedd to scale it to fix with HDV aspect ratio if ur PAL footages are 4:3

[Randy Johnson]

Yea i am ok with scaling…but wont the DV have a flicker/strobe effect because it is interlaced and a different frame rate?

[Joseph Owens]

You will have to do a frame conversion. 25->30, aspect ratio, etc. Shake has some nice buttons to push for all those things. Isn’t your HDV interlaced? Wont’ be so bad if it was 24p, but relax, their 60i appears to be sort of a faked 30/60 sequential or segmented field, being long-GOP where almost everything is synthetic anyway. Really, think about it… only one in 15 frames is an actual recording.

JPO

[Boyd Mccollum]

[randy j] “but wont the DV have a flicker/strobe effect because it is interlaced and a different frame rate?”

it shouldn’t be a problem – people do it all the time. Check out Graeme Nattress’ Standards Converter (at http://www.nattress.com).

Another way to do it – and the best way to see how something works is to just give it a try – is to take your PAL footage (or a short 30 second clip), drop it on a timeline with your HDV settings. Render, then export to a QT with your timeline settings. Reimport into your project.