Mastering SD deliverables from HD sequence

[Sean Meredith]

What about resizing? Letterbox, anamorphic, full frame. And the PAL frame size?

BM doing the pull down. Can I do an accurate Edit to Tape that way?

-sean

Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean Meredith] ”
What about resizing? Letterbox, anamorphic, full frame. And the PAL frame size?”

With an AJA Kona, you have all three of those options to choose from. Actually you can even lay off an HD and SD Master at the same time if you want to by downconverting one of the outputs and leaving the other at HD. Of course there’s deck control issues there, but you can do that.

[Sean Meredith] ”
BM doing the pull down. Can I do an accurate Edit to Tape that way?”

With a Kona yes, no idea on BM hardware.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sean Meredith] “What about resizing? Letterbox, anamorphic, full frame. And the PAL frame size? “

You can control that in Compressor with the Geometery and Encoder tabs. Test, test, test

[Sean Meredith] “Can I do an accurate Edit to Tape that way? “

In theory, yes. Test, test, test. You will have to calculate offsets and drop frame/ndf frame rates If you need that sort of thing.

Jeremy

[Sean Meredith]

hmmm? if the Kona card can do so much, maybe I should take to a place with a Kona card.

I notice that when I downconvert with Compressor from my HD sequence to NTSC and PAL that things that were highlights broadcast safe before can have some slight clipping. will the Kona card handle this better?

thanks for the advice!

sean

Sean Meredith
Director
“Dante’s Inferno”
http://www.dantefilm.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

A kona will help you, yes. What you can do is make two maters, a 23.98 and a 25. The Kona will downconvert both of those in real time.

Jeremy

[Sean Oneil]

[Jeremy Garchow] “If you have to use Compressor. I’d do an NTSC downconvert @ 23.98 and let you Blackmagic card add the pulldown on output. For the PAL version, I’d Duplicate the HD 23.98 export (self contained) and conform that to 25 fps via Cinema Tools. I would then take that HD movie and down convert in COmpressor for PAL keeping everything progressive.”

I agree with this. Keep it at 23.98 and let the BM card add the pulldown. Compressor will scale better if it’s a progressive format.

Sean