Shooting a wedding using AVCHD & Z1

[Zane Barker]

Multicam requires everything to be the same codec, frame size and frame rate. So you will need to convert everything to match.

Also why would you shoot DV with the Z1 when the camera can shoot HDV and your other cameras also shoot HD?

Hindsight is always 1080p

[James Bishop]

Yes sorry I meant to say HDV

Will it be fairly simple to convert the files from my HDD cameras, to the same codec etc as the HDV files?

Thanks for the response

[Tom Wolsky]

The AVCHD files convert to ProRes on ingest by default. The HDV material can be ProRes as well, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Just make sure the AVCHD cameras shoot in the 1440x1080i settings and not in full 1920×1080. That way they will match the HDV camera’s aspect ratio.

All the best,

Tom

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[James Bishop]

Thanks Tom. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem you can alter those settings on my AVCHD camera so I guess the only way to do it will be to slightly squash the footage..

James 🙂

[Tom Wolsky]

You’ve got a bit of problem. The SR55E does not appear to be an AVCHD or any kind of HD camera. According to Sony tech specs it’s a standard definition camera

https://www.sony.co.uk/product/sdh-hard-disk-drive/dcr-sr55e

All the best,

Tom

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[James Bishop]

Hi Tom.
Sorry, I made a mistake and put an extra ‘5’

its a sony HDR-SR5E

James 🙂

[Tom Wolsky]

Then you’ll have to convert the media to match. I’d suggest you check the camera manual carefully as some of the more compressed formats might be in 1440×1080.

All the best,

Tom

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