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SD progressive copies
Maybe i’m missing something. When I try making progressive SD files from HDCAM EX (1080.25p in FCP) they always end up being interlaced. I always tick the Progressive box in Compressor for SD output.
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Excellent article explaining how this is done. I hope the COW doesn’t mind my pointing to it since I’d rather do that and make sure the author gets credit that paraphrasing myself.
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Thanks Craig, that work flow makes an amazing difference to the picture quality. I’m still puzzled though. When I check to see if the SD file is still a ProgScan copy I find it has changed to interlaced. This also happend when using FCP compressor. I’ve repeated this conversion countless times and about ready to admit defeat….. for tonight at least.
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How good is the xdcamex picture quality on an sd dvd with that process ? does it look better than material originating on sd ? My experience using hdv downconverted to sd dvd was that it looked much worse than stuff shot on standard def.
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[ryan early] “How good is the xdcamex picture quality on an sd dvd with that process ?”
Provided the down-convert is done properly it looks better than SD. That’s been my experience.
– Don
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Has anyone tried this process with HDV footage? Sometime in the next few months I’m gonna start editing a doc that was shot in HDV. I usually downconvert from the camera and just edit in SD, but for this one I want to keep it in HDV or some other HD codec.
MIck Haensler
Higher Ground Media
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