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Stock footage in an HDV project
Hi all. Here’s another HD question. Our 30 minute project will be edited using footage mostly shot on JVC’s GY-DH100U. We’re planning on doing all capturing on our G5 using the Kona Pcie Card and a JVC Pro HD video tape recorder and a Huge 2.5 TB 4GB Dual Channel Fibre Rackmount. We’ll need to be producing SD screening copies every couple of days for the client on DVD and Beta. I’m concerned with the nearly 15% of the show that will be coming in from stock footage. Mostly on DVCam tapes and oftentimes at fairly poor image quality. My hope was to edit entirely in the 23.98 DV codec to facilitate quick rendering times and the large amount of stock footage. So, here are the questions I’m struggling with…
1) Assuming that I upconvert the project to DVCPro HD at the end what is the best way to deal with this stock footage?
2) How will media manager deal with footage that was shot or recorded in standard NTSC DV?
3) Is it best to simply avoid the HDV environment in FCP if possible? There seems to be some controversy on this topic and I’m wondering if it isn’t best to dub our HDV footage to HD before even beginning this project.
Sorry for the convoluted posting. Any advice on the issue of stock footage and/or HDV is very very much appreciated. Thanks!
Quinn Costello
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We are wrestling with that question ourselves…but will definately be having more that 50% of our DVCPRO HD show VHS and DV and Beta stock footage. Because of this, we are looking at a Terranex solution. Compressor does a great job, but is VERY time consuming:
https://proapptips.com/tips/article.php?story=20061003052011208
Shane
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Thanks Shane-
That’s a helpful video. However, we won’t know what editorial choices we’ll be using until after we’ve worked with the clips in the timeline. What is the best choice for capturing footage into the project assuming that we’ll be exporting via reference files later on in the project? Thanks again.
Quinn
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Well, we transferred all the MASTER VHS to DV (yes, some of our footage is on VHS masters), then captured the DV with the AJ-HD1200 deck upconverting in the deck to 720p24 and doing a center extraction. Then we captured the betaSP as DV, and other VHS screeners (with window code) as Dv and when we add them to the timeline, we resize and render. At the end of the show when we order master footage, we’ll most likely have a terranex session to have it all bumped up.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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