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Jerry – Please provide details on converting HDV to DVCPROHD w/o a capture card
I’m trying to follow your October CCM article on this process, and avoid buying a capture card, at least for now. Editing HDV is annoying enouth that I would rather start up a conversion process and go do something else for a while to avoid it. Here’s what I have done:
I captured the entire footage in FCP using firewire, letting Log and Capture create new clips on Start/Stop. I then put all the clips into one sequence to Export Using Compressor. In Compressor, I selected DVCPRO HD 1080i60 in Advanced Format Conversions.
First question; Since HDV is 1440 rather than 1280, do I change the Width to 1440? (And, following that, do I change the Pixel aspect or the Constrain to display aspect?)
Finally, what file format should I select? When I first tried this, I let it default to QuickTime Movie, but the converted file lost all the clip breaks (which makes sense, since it is now a .mov movie). Is there a way to get a converted file with the clips identified, or do I need to forget clips in the capture process and identify them myself when I get the DVCPRO HD file back (Ugh!) Or…your thoughts please 🙂
Thank you for any help you and any others can provide.
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[John Clyde] “First question; Since HDV is 1440 rather than 1280, do I change the Width to 1440? (And, following that, do I change the Pixel aspect or the Constrain to display aspect?)”
DVCPro HD 1080i/60 is 1280 wide. DVCPro HD 1080/50 is 1440 wide. Do not change the 1080i/60 preset or you’ll have to render every shot again in the DVCPro HD 1080i/60 timeline.
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
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Thanks for the info, Walter.
In his article, Jerry said to keep the same frame rate and size with which the source footage was shot. Will I be in the same kind of trouble if I change the DVCPRO HD 1080i50 frame rate from 25 to 29.97? Or should I stay with 1080i60 and leave the size alone?
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[John Clyde] “Will I be in the same kind of trouble if I change the DVCPRO HD 1080i50 frame rate from 25 to 29.97? Or should I stay with 1080i60 and leave the size alone?”
You’ll need to go through a Terranex to convert 1080i/50 to 1080i/60 (29.97). That’s a PAL to NTSC HD conversion and the only tool we’ve found that can do that cleanly is a Terranex.
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
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The reason your clips appear as one long mov, is because you put them all in the same timeline.
If you batchexport them as individual clips, you’ll be fine.
Gunleik
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Thank you Gunleik and Walter. I believe I’m off and running now.
I used DVCPRO HD 1080i/60 and Batch Export and all appears to be working.
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