outputting to HDcam SR

[Mike Cohen]

I see this as one of the challenges of low budget filmmaking. I won’t call this independent filmmaking, because indy films often have decent budgets. Low budget filmmaking on the other hand seems to entail one person trying to shoot, direct, edit and not ask for help. Thus, people seem to not think things through.
There have been countless posts on the COW entitled “What camera should I buy?” whereas the better posts read “Does this workflow make sense?”

The original post of this thread is somewhere between these two – workflow not quite thought out, guy wants to do everything himself.

That being said, he did come to the right place for advice, however I agree that aside from specific questions, the “what do I do now, i’m clueless” approach is bound to get responses like those in this thread.

To the original post writer, take the advice and get some professional help. If you are aiming to make a HD master for film-out, you must have some budget available for this process. Spend the money and learn what you can from the people you hire. While it is satisfying to have the skills yourself, it is an expensive effort to learn by trial and error at this high level of technical work.
Good luck.

Mike Cohen