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upconversion or downconversion in multiformat project
When faced with a project with multiple formats (DV, DVCPRO HD, and 720p P2) what are your thoughts on whether to upconvert the DV material to DVCPRO HD or downconvert the HD stuff. About 2/3 DV 1/3 HD with the delivery format being a SD DVD.
Scott Davis
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3 Replies
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Since it’s mostly DV, I would downconvert. The HD will look much better downconverted than the DV upconverted, unless you spend many bucks to do the upconversion.
Jeremy
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My thoughts also. Plus DV will easier to work with on the setup I will be using.
Scott Davis
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The trick will be downconverting those P2 clips.
For the DVCPROHD clips (from tape) you can set up a 1200A to do downconversion out of the firewire. You can then use the 1200A to bring in your dv material as well. Remember to separate the firewire buses from your dv source deck and the fw800 drive as I said in the earlier thread. This will save you one level of trouble. You’ll need something like this:
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10482
G-technology makes one but I think you said you were going to use a lacie drive. Stick your fw800 on this and the firewire deck directly into your laptop.
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