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mini dv 24pa…best codec to capture?
I have about 15hrs of mini dv (ntsc) 24pa tape (shot on hvx200) to capture for a short doc to be entered into festivals. The doc will also include many scanned photos. Should I capture as dv or dvcpro 50 or uncompressed 8bit or…?
Not decided on if a professional color correct will be done.
Editing on FCS 1, may upgrade to FCS 2 before beginning.
Using FW800 drive.
Macbook Pro 2GHz intel core duo
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAMThanks!
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Well, if you only have the camera or a DV deck, and you are capturing via firewire, there is only ONE option…DV/NTSC Anamorphic with Advanced Pulldown Removal. You cannot capture it as any other codec via firewire.
Shane
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Oh right. Thanks. I guess what I should have asked is…if I am working on a system capable of capturing different codecs for this, what codec is preferred and how much of a quality difference will there be from regular dv?
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THe biggest issue is that once you shot DV, the compression has already occurred. You have DV files. Capturing them as anything else won’t increase the quality of the footage at all. The only reason to work with these files as anything else like DV50 or ProRes SD or Uncompressed 8-bit, is so that any text, stills and graphics you add will have the better compression, and not revert to DV compression.
DV50 is good, as is ProRes.
Shane
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Hi, I just bought a Panasonic HVX200 and a FireStore100 with firmware 4 to go with it. Last night I documented a play at the theatre – but the FS100 disk suddenly stopped recording so I had to make a panic switch to tape mode.
But now, for some reason, it is very hard to get this tape into FCP, best shot so far is to have DVCPRO control and NTSC 48kHz import setting – but when it is in the computer it appears to be in very low resolution, and also streched: there is a letterbox cutting off top and bottom of the picture and frame seems to be stretched out to widescreen giving the contents a distorted look…
Am I doing something wrong here? This is my first NTSC cam (old cam is Canon XM1 which was never as quirky to connects as this one). Are there codec settings I should change?
Checking the Panasonic it seems to be in 480i/60i mode.
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