Offline Online workflow for HDCAM

[Chris Coote]

Are you not taking a bit of quality hit going from HDCAM to DVCPROHD?
I guess prores should hopefully be the solution…although unproven at this point.

[David Roth weiss]

[Editguy69] “Are you not taking a bit of quality hit going from HDCAM to DVCPROHD?
I guess prores should hopefully be the solution…although unproven at this point.”

People use these workflows because the “quality hit” is either not noticeable or hardly noticeable — meanwhile, the benefits of required hard drive speed and space are great. Few trained professionals can spot difference in side by side split screen tests when viewing HDCAM and a conversion to DVCProHD.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[John Heagy]

Apple really needs to add an alternative to the very long in the tooth OfflineRT. Short of hacking the RTenabler.txt file, it’s either OfflineRT or DV25 for offline media. OfflineRT came out with FCP 2.0 for heavens sake, can we please have a 5-10Mbit 16×9 RT offline codec already! About to try an RTenabler hack to at least open up Photo-JPEG to a more pleasing frame size and data rate.

As for 16×9 offline, don’t forget there is a 384 x 216 HD OfflineRT Easy preset in a variety of frame rates, you just have to create a custom Capture preset.

John Heagy
NFL Films