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Sony Capture .M2T Myths and Confusion
The following is very standard technique which I have done for years. I am no super newb… but for absolute clarity’s sake and for helping to ensure my current project (the most important thus far in my entire career)is delivered correctly, I want to be absolutely sure about some things, so please… bear with me here.
I am capturing to Sony Vegas 8 from a HDV Sony camera (1080i/ HD-HVR 1000u). My project settings (which I know may or may not be relevant) are preset to “HDV 1080-60i (1440 x 1080, 25.000fps) ultimately and automatically resulting in the captured data having an .m2t extension.
My questions:
1. Am I correct in assuming that this is the truest to true, lossless, definitive, final and absolute HDV file that I can possibly expect to get from this,… the above method, ?2. Would there be any way possible that my partner’s Mac could actually have better results (deeper colors, sharper images, etc.) by capturing to the elusive “Final Cut Pro”. (I know it captures a to .mov/.mkv, etc.)
3. We have 40 hours of a HD concert festival footage that we will be splitting editing between us both, on both a MAC and on a PC. The footage will eventually have to end up on the same machine, any tips for minimum loss (if not lossless) cross-os compression possibilities? (H264/ DIVX/ XVID)?
any tips, that is, other than “get a mac”would be eternally appreciated. I have already had that offered up and I cannot say it sat well with me, I’m looking for some answers, no snark please.
thanks in advance
Brett
(Super Duper Sony Fan)B.Nolan
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> 1. Am I correct in assuming that this is the truest to true, lossless, definitive, final and absolute HDV file that I can possibly expect to get from this,… the above method, ?
Yes. Your camera shoots HDV and the file it produces is as good as it gets.
> 2. Would there be any way possible that my partner’s Mac could actually have better results (deeper colors, sharper images, etc.) by capturing to the elusive “Final Cut Pro”. (I know it captures a to .mov/.mkv, etc.)
No. There is no “capture” like in the analog days. It is really a file copy and the copy is digital so it doesn’t matter what system copies the file from the tape… the contents of the file will be the same.
> 3. We have 40 hours of a HD concert festival footage that we will be splitting editing between us both, on both a MAC and on a PC. The footage will eventually have to end up on the same machine, any tips for minimum loss (if not lossless) cross-os compression possibilities? (H264/ DIVX/ XVID)?
I have no experience working with both PC’s and Mac’s other than reading that Mac’s are extremely limited in what they can ingest (i.e., they only seem to like their own proprietary formats). I will leave it to others to comment on what format may be compatible between both (if any).
> any tips, that is, other than “get a mac”would be eternally appreciated.
Yea, have your partner to get a PC so he can work with more video formats. 😉
~jr
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If you have already captured to tape then John is correct. However if you have component out on your camera, plug it into your HDTV live from the cameras sensor, without a tape and the quality is better than through firewire, because it has not been compressed to m2t yet. Black Magic makes a capture card called Intensity pro
That can capture uncompressed component straight from the sensor. You will need a PCI express slot and XP Pro to use that card I believe.
Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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