Is it really this simple? : Uncompressed master

[Walter Biscardi]

If you have an AJA Kona card it’s even easier. Just play it out in realtime to an HDCAM or D5 deck.

If you require an uncompressed file to go to another FCP system for mastering, first check to see if they have an AJA Kona card there. Then you can lay off in realtime.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Shane Ross]

What Walter said. The Kona 3 makes it REAL easy.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
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[Gunleik Groven]

I need the file.

Thanks!

Gunleik

https://www.vuture.no/testvid

[Walter Biscardi]

[Gunleik Groven] “I need the file.”

Then just drop it in an uncompressed timeline and scale it up to fit.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Walter Biscardi]

[walter biscardi] “Then just drop it in an uncompressed timeline and scale it up to fit.”

And just so you know, you’re not gaining anything by doing this. You can’t “add quality” to a DVCPro HD timeline by simply scaling it up and putting it into an uncompressed timeline. In some cases it may look worse.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Graeme Nattress]

I’d also apply some chroma smoothing /sharpening if bumping DVCProHD to uncompressed – helps a lot with strong colours.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Gunleik Groven]

Thanks again.

I know all digital editing amd conversions are lossfull -;)

But thanks!

Gunleik

https://www.vuture.no/testvid

[Erik Lindahl]

Going from DVCPRO HD to Uncompressed HD should be better than just going DVCPRO HD > SDI out from the Kona. Internally in FCP you’ll get a DVCPRO HD compressed to DVCPRO HD (1 gen loss at least) even if going out through SDI. Moving to an uncompressed timeline will not do this.

The it all depends on what you do and how much you’ll notice it. DV > uncompressed handled as the above method was like day and night when doing color corrections or adding graphics and titles. Eventhough DVCPROHD is a good 4:2:2 codec, it’s compressed quite hard (10:1 or so).

Make sure you use the “best” scale in the new timeline and as Graeme states some filtering can be nice.