Print to Video

[Shane Ross]

You can’t. Once you converted it from HDV to ProRes you cannot print back to HDV tape. To get footage back to HDV it needs to be captured as HDV. If you knew that you eventually wanted to print back to HDV then you should have never converted to ProRes…because not only can you not print it back to tape, but you lose any and all benefit you had in converting it to ProRes.

Even if you had a capture card you cannot get it back onto an HDV tape. That deck has NO inputs other than firewire. It is not meant for mastering.

You can try to convert your ProRes file into an HDV one, but every test I have done has been far less than stellar. Taking a GOP format, capturing it as an I-frame format, then converting back to GOP. U-G-L-Y it don’t need to alibi.

Shane

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[Kevin Matluk]

So pretty much I’m screwed! Well thanks for the reply Shane I really appreciate it. The network prefers a HDCam copy but we don’t have the deck for that, and the only way is to send our show out on a hard drive to the network to CC and put on HDcam, but the network doesn’t have HD CC capability. Would it be better if I just edited everything in a NTSC DV timeline since the network will crop it to 4:3 anyways? the interviews I shot are framed for 16:9, shot in HD, but will be centercut so will pretty much ruin the look I was going for.

[Kevin Matluk]

Well the network would prefer an HDCam master for the best possible video quality, but they also take Digibeta which is what our post house is sending them after the close caption. I reside in Arkansas and have been trying to contact a few people who have HD CC software. We looked into MacCaption but yes, to pricy for now. We want the show to air as HD, but can deal with SD quality, and are searching for the best possible solution to send an HD copy to the network.

[Shane Ross]

[Kevin Matluk] “The network prefers a HDCam copy but we don’t have the deck for that,”

Find a post facility that does and take your QT file there for output. I did this a lot. Do you happen to have one in your area? Where is your area?

[Kevin Matluk] “he only way is to send our show out on a hard drive to the network to CC and put on HDcam, but the network doesn’t have HD CC capability”

Well, most often you have Closed Caption encoding done at a post facility with that capability. Give them your master, they dub it to another HDCAM master and adding the closed caption data. Barring that you can find MacCaption and do it yourself (but spendy!) and you will need an HD capture card and to rent and HD deck.

[Kevin Matluk] “Would it be better if I just edited everything in a NTSC DV timeline since the network will crop it to 4:3 anyways?”

No. You are required to deliver an HDCAM master by the network…you just said so. All of this is stuff that you figure out and plan out before you edit…before you capture…before you SHOOT hopefully.

I know many places that can output to HDCAM for you in L.A. Others know of places in New York and also of places in Atlanta.

Besides, you cannot output proper timecode to HDV tapes via print to video, so in getting that dubbed to HDCAM you’d need to leave pretty explicit instructions to the post facility that would do this dub, otherwise they might must carry over the source timecode. No matter which way you cut it, you needed to deliver an HDCAM master…the network would look at your HDV master and ask “what are we supposted to do with this?”

Shane

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[Steve Eisen]

Rent an HDCAM deck.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group