-
Mixing DVCPRO HD and HDV
I’m doing an offline edit for an indie doc and I’ve been given a drive full of various kinds of footage. It’s about half DVCPRO HD 720/24PN and half HDV 1080i 60. There is also some news footage that we received in SD 29.97 MPEG IMX. The producer wants to deliver in 1080.
You know where this is going… So what would be the best format to start the offline? I don’t have access (or the time) to re-digitize everything with the Kona 3. I don’t mind mixing formats and dealing with RT renders for now, and the producer just wants the rough cut slapped together on DVD for now in order to submit this for more funding. However, I’m concerned with building this incorrectly now and then making life hell for either me or whoever ends up finishing.
And I’ve spent a lot of time searching through the forums but the solution is usually the Kona 3…
Thanks in advance
Chad
FCP Stuido 2 MBPro 2.4ghz 2gig ram Editing FW800 -
4 Replies
-
Your main issue is mixing FRAME RATES. You have 23.98 and 29.97. WIthout the Kona your next option is to use COMPRESSOR to convert the other footage. ANd while you are converting the frame rates you might as well convert to a universal codec as well…DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98.
I have a small “oldish” tutorial on this…
https://pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Thanks for your help Shane.
So even though this will be finished at 1080 in the end, I should make everything match at 720 and then when it’s onlined let the Kona upconvert all of it to 1080?
Considering that there is probably 15 hours of stuff to convert, would it make sense to go ahead and do the rough cut and then only convert what I’ll be using… or is that going to throw off the timing of the edits and cause way too many headaches? I don’t have a whole lot of time for this first round of editing so I’m just looking to be efficient.
Thanks again for your input.
-
[Chad Cooper] ”
So even though this will be finished at 1080 in the end, I should make everything match at 720 and then when it’s onlined let the Kona upconvert all of it to 1080?”This is tough, because HALF of your footage is 1080i. So you will be downrezzing it to 720, then uprezzing it back to 1080. But the 1080i is HDV, and you don’t want to convert the 720p DVCPRO HD to 1080 HDV.
In your place I’d downrez the 1080i to 720p…then cross convert in the end via the Kona 3.
[Chad Cooper] “would it make sense to go ahead and do the rough cut and then only convert what I’ll be using…”
TOTALLY. That makes total sense. But you might consider at that point converting all that you used to 1080 Prores…so you don’t downconvert the 1080 to 720 then back to 1080.
[Chad Cooper] “or is that going to throw off the timing of the edits and cause way too many headaches?”
Got me….this is something that you need to test for yourself.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Perfect. Thanks for all of your help Shane. It’s greatly appreciated.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up