reencoding HDV to DVCPro HD vs batch digitize source as DVCPro HD

[Walter Biscardi]

[kutmasta] “Is the path 2 better?”

Yes

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[Kozo Okumura]

could you explain more? how much difference?
I am not exporting the finished HDV quicktime to DVCPro HD timeline to render. I am just copying and paste the clips on the timeline to DVCPro HD so that the graphics, effects, etc are going to be rendered as DVCPro HD which has better color sampling rate.

Is still path2 much better in quality?

[Chris Poisson]

The inclusion of SDI for ingest in this workflow will not add quality to your HDV footage.

I don’t think you would see any difference in quality by using your native HDV captured via Firewire and working in a DVCproHD sequence. There are boatloads of discussions on this right here and in the HDV forum. I have been doing it this way for a couple of months and the quality is outstanding.

[Adam Smith]

Note that Chris is saying that it’s better to edit in a DVCPROHD timeline, to avoid re-compressing or creating new content in the lossy HDV codec.

As far as converting vs recapturing, I think the biggest difference would be time required to recapture versus time required to transcode the timeline.

2 more issues I’d worry about (I’m a noob)…

*Final project data backups – if you need to archive the project, backing up HDV source and edit media plus DVCPRO-HD final converted media could require more storage than if the whole project was reduced to one timeline and no transcode.

*Ability to rebuild and revise – would footage transcoded in this manner retain timecode links to the source tapes?

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