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Losing Quality: HDV to DVCAM – Please Help
I have read other posts on this forum as well as other forums – and I still need help.
I shot a half hour video on the JVC GY-HD110U. I shot 720p 30fps 16:9. I edited in HDV720p30 sequences with settings set to no interlacing. I am trying to get the half hour HDV video onto a DVCam tape in SD and I can’t seem to do it without major artifacting and digital-looking images and blockiness and strobing on moving graphics.
I have tried many things. Some include:
1. Exporting HDV video as it is. Going to compressor and trying to compress it to DV NTSC. Bringing that NTSC video back into FCP and giving it its own timeline with corresponding settings and printing to tape.
2. Print to tape through a Kona Card straight from the HDV timeline onto a DVCam tape.
3. Pulling the HDV sequence onto a DV NTSC Final Cut timeline and rendering and printing to tape.
4. Converting the HDV video into a ProRes422 video in Compressor and printing to tape.So far nothing has worked. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Sharon -
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Well, going from the lowest form of HD to the lowest form of professional SD will cause loss in quality. HDV has a unique compression scheme, and then there’s the DV compression to take into account. PLUS you are going from HD to SD…there will be a loss of quality. And from progressive to interlaced. Now, I can see issues with some of the options, but a Kona to a DV deck and it looks horrid? More horrid than DV looks on it’s own? And is the process introducing artifacts? Because HDV introduces many artifacts on it’s own.
Any way to post pictures of the comparisons? It is very difficult to tell you what to do if we can’t see the results of what you are doing.
Shane
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Yes, I tried setting the field dominance to “non”. But, sadly, with no avail.
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