open format timeline

[Jeremy Garchow]

You would use the 1080i settings, then simply chnage the ‘field dominance’ settings of the timeline from Upper to None by hitting command-zero with your sequence selected.

[Joel K.]

Thanks Jeremy and the rest of you. You guys are great. I’ll give it a shot when I have a free moment (tight deadlines AHHHH!)

-Joel

[Chris Cummings]

A related question: I’ve got a 1080i timeline of interviews converted from HDV over to ProRes on capture. I also have various B-roll to overcut that is 720×480 and 720 x 486 NTSC DV, with some anamorphic as well! It’s all going out to SD DVD through DVDSP at the end…

So, rather than trying to scale all this B-roll up, as it’s going out to SD anyway, I’m assuming I should scale the 1080i footage down into an SD sequence per above, with the shifted fields Jeremy noted.

However, I’m still confused about the PAR, which is HD 1440:

— Will the scaled down 1080i footage the NTSC DV PAR suffice, all the way through DVDSP output?
— Also, should I keep the SD sequence 16:9 so that the 1080 footage won’t have any letterboxing?

Thanks so much for any help/advice!!

BTW, Jeremy, if you’re reading this – fantastic article in the last Cow Mag! We’ve been looking into the same workflow and your article was invaluable.

[Chris Cummings]

Just found this thread with a little more digging: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1005458