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offline to online suite set up
Hi,
I work for a production company in toronto. We have 4 shows on the go. We currently are shooting in with dvx100 cameras then digitizing to final cut for the offline. We then are sending all our material to an online facility who then does the online on an uncompressed smoke.
We want to set up our own in house online suite. We want to go uncompressed.
advice on work flow?.
capture dv then recapture uncompressed?.any advise on capture cards monitors waveform vector ect…drives to handle uncompressed
costs?.thanks.
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https://www.nattress.com/ has some great articles on DV vs Uncompressed. He explains the differences and what you’ll see (or not see). “Uncompressed”, as a buzz word, is impressive to most, and makes you think you’ll be getting more. It’s important to understand that when you see the difference in the footage examples on his site, he’s not showing you DV that has been upconverted to uncompressed. He’s showing you stuff that was shot uncompressed. Upconversion is a format change, not a quality improvement. In short, DV is as good on a DV sequence as it will ever get. Capturing it uncompressed does not improve the quality at all. Capturing it to DV using firewire is a direct file transfer from the tape to the computer and therefore, is at it’s maximum quality. Uncompressed will only take up more drive space.
“So why does the smoke version look better”, you may ask. It could be a number of things. Not saying anything at all about your skills, it’s probably the eyes and minds and tools of experienced artists. It’s certainly not the fact that it’s uncompressed (since you’re starting out with DV). Bottom line, no reason to go uncompressed unless you shoot uncompressed.
Thanks,
Gary
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