The Advantage to capturing vs. rendering 10bit

[David Battistella]

How about this,

Cut the HDV natively and then just render the cut in DVCPRO HD, do your CC, etc at that stage. But i like the idea of bringing it all in with the DVCPRO HD codecs off the bat. That way you never really have to look at HDV at all.

In my tests the HDV rendered to DVCPRO HD visually looked sharper than DVCPRO captured. I would attribute this to the crappy D to componet converters in the HDV deck.

Until I see an HDV deck with an HD-SDI out (which will cost twice as much as the deck for the board alone) I think the sharpest will be HDV to DVCPRO HD transcode.

Test a bit of footage, you will see what I mean.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Christopher S. johnson]

Thanks David.

Sorry I changed the topic to HDV source footage, but David’s comments got me curious. It is remarkable that the FCP software transcode from HDV to DVCPRO HD is better than Component capture to DVCPRO HD (from an already recorded tape).

I wonder if the transcode can happen on the fly during capture over FW? Like when we used to live-transcode DV to OfflineRT a couple of years ago.

Also, I imagine that if my shooter was using the Cannon camera, with HD-SDI out, I would use that if I could and go straight to DVCPRO HD (for the quick turn around pieces).

Thanks again.
Peace back at ya.

-Christopher