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  • Mixing HDV & SD to make a SD DVD both PAL & NTSC

    Posted by Brendan Pyatt on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Hi,

    Working on a project that mixes HDV, SD Pal and SD NTSC footage that will end up being a DVD to be released in both PAL & NTSC formats.
    I would like to use Apple Prores as the working codec as I understand its high quality and seems to work when sending to and from Apple Color.

    I am not 100% certain what used to shoot the footage but examining the clips using MediaInfo tells me that I have two types of clips:
    1440×1080 29.97fps
    720×480 29.97fps

    I don’t have the option of recapturing I just have to make the best from what I have.

    I am really confused about what sequence settings to use! Ideally i would like to make a widescreen DVD.

    Please help!! Thanks.

    Brendan Pyatt replied 17 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  • Brendan Pyatt

    April 24, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    From different posts etc I believe I need to run the 1440×1080 clips through compressor.

    So I guess my main issue is what should I set my timeline sequence settings to?

    In FCP i can see:
    Apple ProRes 422 NTSC 48 kHz
    but also
    DV NTSC 48 Anamorphic
    but no Apple ProRes 422 NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic…which what I think I need.

    Once I know what sequence settings to use I can then compress the 1440×1080 clips to the same settings..

  • Brendan Pyatt

    April 24, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    mmm confused.

    I just can’t get the 1440×1080 clips out of Compressor using Prores codec to be 16×9!
    What ever i set in Geometry seems to have no effect.

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