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Recapturing a project in HDV questions
I did a short film over the weekend which was all shot in HDV with the Canon XL-H1. It was for the 48 hour film project, so the final product for this weekend was plain ol DV, so that is how I captured it and edited it to keep things moving quick. Time was of the essense.
Now that it is complete, and the competition is out of the way, I would like to go back and recapture in HDV.
Here lies my problem. It won’t let me capture HDV through the typical external capture screen. HDV requires me to go with the internal video capture and so it doesn’t recognise the capture logs. I’ve only been capturing through a deck (Sony HDV deck M10U) and not through the camera.
Am I screwed and have to basically recapture everything one by one and reedit the piece? Or is there a trick out there?
I’m running Vegas 6d.
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4 Replies
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You may be able to do a semi-manual job – depending on you first capture – did each clip retain camera time code or did each new capture start at zero?
If you do have original time code, you can recapture the whole tape in HDV as a single clip, so that the time code references can be used to replace DV with HDV.
First check that time code for an identifiable frame is identical on both, and if it’s not, just note how much offset and use this throughout.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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I captured with the original timecode from the camera. So it looks like I’ll still have a lot of work to do, not a 100% rebuild, but pretty close.
So what is the proper workflow? I haven’t purchased cineform, so only have what comes with Vegas 6. Is there already an easy way to capture in HDV, edit and deliver in DV, while still retaining the option to deliver in HD, as in prebuilt into Vegas?
Also, does anyone use that Sony HDV deck with Vegas? For some reason it blows at batch capturing. Unless your clips are less than a minute apart, it will start fast forwarding and fail to find the next “in” point on the timecode for the next clip. You have to stop it, rewind, get it within 10 or 20 seconds and then continue the batch. Talk about a PITA! You would think Sony software would work with Sony hardware.
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Try the CineForm Connect HD trial version. It is a very good program. Unless your computer is more than a dual core 3800 X 2, click the “capture m2t only” button, capture, and then go to “Convert”. You can drop their files on the timeline and edit them like DV. Also, it will scene detect in the convert stage.
JerryW
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One thing to add and I learned it the hard way. Reset your file properties BEFORE rendering out an mpeg for DVD. You will have 1440 X 1080 on the timeline but if you want to do a 24p Widescreen DVD, change the file properties to 720 X 480 before you render. You will get a great render that way – garbage otherwise.
JerryW
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