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Mixing DV & HDV using Sheer Video
I am trying to use both DV SD footage as a wide-shot and the same footage imported as 1080i (from my FX-1) in a DV sequence so that I can ‘zoom-in, and ‘pan & scan’ the same shots. This is as a labor-of-lovefor a theatrical school, shooting their performances with only one camera. I was hoping that using the Sheer Video codec might help in this regards, but I’m not sure how to set up the preferences in the project.
Has anyone tried and or succeeded in doing this, with the sheer codec or in another way? I’m able to cut this way ok in Premiere Pro on a PC, but I have to double capture and the HDV footage plays back slow. I’m much newer to FCP, hence my thread. Thanks ahead of time.
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Capture with the original setting. Edit in a DV sequence. When you have your sequence ready, change the export codec.(I don’t know how to do that in PP).
I do not recommend you capture in Sheer. It makes smaller files than Apple Uncompress, but still quite bigs. Also it doesn’t gives you much RT performance.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Interesting. I knew that the file size was bigger but I figured that because there was less compression with Sheer codecs, the cpu didn’t have to work as hard and the editing was quite brisk.
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You are right Eric. Sheer is uncompress so doesn’t need to be de-compressed prior to rendering.
But the data rate of your HDV and your DV footage is 25Mbps while the data-rate of the Sheer 10bUnc is 550MBps. That means that Sheer it takes 22 times more space in your HD.
Normally I work with DVCam and now I just bought an EX-1.
I capture with the original codec. Edit in EX-1 or DV and when everything is ready I change the sequence codec to Sheer or Proress. I set the sequence to “Render all YUV footage in High Precission” and “Motion rendering: Best”.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table. -
22 times more space?! If I do use sheer video, I think I’ll use the 8 bit codec…
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Sheer 8b Unc 422 is 375Mbps. Just 15 times bigger than the original.
I have Sheer since a few years. I use it mainly when I want to send from an appication to other with no loose. But for a final master I go to Proress. Proress HQ (10b) is around 180Mps.
3 times smaller than Sheer 10b. If you need archiving the file, I think is worth a bit of compression.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
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