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Issues to expect onlining HD in FCP 5?
So over the past two years we’ve been shooting all of our studio shows in 1080i HDCAM and then in post we’ve been dumping the resolution down to DV25 via AJA. We edit it in DV25 and it is actually delivered for broadcast at this resolution. Since there is now a market willing to purchase completed and ‘in the can’ HD shows we’re considering uprezing the original edited sequences to full HD.
Assuming that all hardware works flawlessly and we experience no compatability issues with Tiger and FCP5 and our raid controller and our SDI card and all the other roadblocks and pitfalls of a hardware nature, what can we expect to be the technical issues with uprezing the shows?
I’m aware that our graphics will have to be recreated at high resolution and at the proper framerates, but my main concern is the audio mix slipping out of sync because of some subtle framerate or timecode issue that I am unaware of.
Any tips and/or grave warnings would be much appreciated.
McG
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3 Replies
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Make sure you fully understand the Media Manager and what it can do, or not do in this case. There are some great articles about this at the Ken Stone site.(Kenstone.net?) Specifically, to avoid capturing more HD footage than you need, be sure to make all your clips independent and no longer part of the master clip. One issue that I never was able to resolve was that after re-capture, all the new HD clips would come scaled to 50%. But we were offlining using the DVCPROHD codec…maybe there’s an issue there. Also, hope and pray that all your original capture and logging was very accurate, tape numbers, sequential TC, etc.
Good luck
Jeff O’Brien -
OK thanks for the advice. Luckily these shows are only half hour shows and are more or less live to tape. Its a 4 camera shoot and there are only 4 source tapes for each episode. Naturally my concern then falls to the time code, but I’m sure its going to be ok on 95% of the tapes for the season.
In your experience is the time it takes to batch digitize and complete the online very different than doing the same on a Symphony?
McG
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I wouldn’t think if would be any different in FCP. However, you will have some render time if you have graphics or effects, now that you’re in the HD world…
Jeff
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