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Lo-Res recompress of DVCProHD?
I know this shouldn’t be difficult, but I just can’t seem to make it work.
I’m trying to recompress native DVCProHD files to a lo-res format in order to work from a Powerbook. Whatever combination of settings I try, I always end up with footage in the wrong aspect ratio. I can uncheck “show square pixels” in the viewer and the clip looks correct. But this isn’t an option in the edited sequence.
I’m trying for something akin to the Offline RT compression – maybe a 50% Photo JPEG.
Using FCP 4.5, a dual 2.5 G5 and Lacie BDE, moving to a 1.67 PB for “offline edit”
Any help, tips, secrets greatly appreciated….
thanks
Dog Day Editing
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DVCPro HD is a pretty low rez format and it cuts easily on a laptop. I’m cutting my independent film using the full DVCPro HD codec on my Powerbook.
However, you need to capture the footage on a tower first to capture with full DVCPro HD resolution. The laptop will edit full rez, but it cannot capture full rez correctly.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I figured it would handle it. Problem is, I have over 200GB of raw material (mainly because it’s a “no-budget” film, and the deck was rented to capture everything at once with limited ability to recapture later). It was all captured on my G5 tower with no problems.
Now that the project will mainly be cut on the Powerbook, and without an external drive (it could be used, I just thought they would rather not be tethered), the only feasible way I see to do it is to squeeze the file size down.
That said, I think I finally figured out the solution. What seems to be happening is no matter what the compression setting is, it always sets the clips to the DVCProHD aspect ratio, while the sequence is square. By adjusting the aspect ratio to square on each clip, everything seems to display correctly.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with the codec on a PB. Helps me to sell another idea I have to a client!
greg
Dog Day Editing
Creative Editorial & Directing Services
Rose City
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