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mixing HDV and DVCPRO HD
I have read through many posts on mixing hdv with other formats and confess
to still being somewhat confused. I am trying to figure out if there is any
significant advantage to capturing the HDV as ProRes, as opposed to simply
mixing formats in the timeline and setting up FCP to render in ProRes. Any
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The advantages with ProRes are you have a true iframe format, better keying, transitions and color correction, compositing etc. There are a boatload of posts on this here and on the HDV forum.
Have a wonderful day.
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Thanks Chris. I posted that just before running our the door this
morning and didn’t really state the question properly.From reading posts and talking to others I know that some people
have trouble with editing HDV and others don’t. So, assuming
I had no problem, and I end up with a cut of my documentary
rendered in ProRes from a mixed timeline, would that
rendered show be in essence the same quality as if I had
captured that material in ProRes to begin with? If so I would
be able to do any color correction/compositing with a picture
locked ProRes sequence. The doc I’m about to cut has about
50-70 hours worth of footage and it would be a significant
budgetary saving If the HDV was captured as HDV. Sorry that
was so long-winded, but that is my dilemma. I appreciate
your help. Sorry to waste your time with that first post.bigpine
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[TImothy Auld] “a significant
budgetary saving If the HDV was captured as HDV.”Well, I suppose you’re talking about storage, no? Hard drives are dirt cheap right now.
As far as quality, HDV just doesn’t color correct very well, plus you’ll be looking at massive amounts of rendering time, but overall the quality should hold up.
Have a wonderful day.
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