Upconverting PAL sequence to 1440 x 1080 50i sequence, Please Help

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Upconverting PAL sequence to 1440 x 1080 50i sequence, Please Help

Posted by Dennis Noel gomez on February 21, 2009 at 3:12 am

Hello All,

I’ve looked around the forums and can’t seem to find a post that addresses this issue regarding up-converting.

To give you information regarding this case; I have created a PAL sequence with HDV footage down-converted to PAL through capture. Now I would like to take this same sequence and up-convert it for HDV export, specifically export to a .MOV file using the Apple ProRes 422 codec.

Workflow followed:
-using media manager, I created a copy of the sequence deleting all unused media. (this is basically for saving space)
-this gave me a list of already trimmed clips of all the footage used in the sequence.
-I then made all these clips offline in preparation for HDV batch capture.

I have copied all the offline footage to a new 1440 x 1080 sequence, and began batch capture.
Now everything was going well with the capture, however what seems to be happening is all the clips in the sequence have values in the Motion Tab:
-Basic Motion > Scale: 200%
-Distort > Aspect Ration: -6.67

Now this is a pretty minor problem and the immediate fix is manually changing the Scale and Distortion for all the clips, however I was wondering how I can avoid this problem in light of saving time for future projects.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dennis

Dennis Noel Gomez
In house video Editor
FourLeafFilms

Dennis Noel gomez replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Rafael Amador
February 21, 2009 at 3:16 am

[Dennis Noel Gomez] “Now everything was going well with the capture, however what seems to be happening is all the clips in the sequence have values in the Motion Tab:
-Basic Motion > Scale: 200%
-Distort > Aspect Ration: -6.67

Now this is a pretty minor problem and the immediate fix is manually changing the Scale and Distortion for all the clips, however I was wondering how I can avoid this problem in light of saving time for future projects. “
Select all the clips and “Remove Attributes: Basic Motion/Distort”.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com
John Pale
February 21, 2009 at 3:37 am

Your workflow seems a little off..

Use Media Manager to create an offline version of the sequence (using an HDV preset) for you to recapture. You dont need to be copy pasting clips from the original sequence into a new empty one…you simply use the new offline sequence (at the correct size) to batch capture.

If you just copy/paste the clips, they retain the parameters from the PAL sequence and they automatically resize to fill the HDV frame (thats why you are getting the resizing in the motion tab)
Dennis Noel gomez
February 21, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Thanks a lot for the quick response, I appreciate it.

Cheers,
Dennis

Dennis Noel Gomez
In house video Editor
FourLeafFilms
Dennis Noel gomez
February 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm

Thanks for the quick response John, I’ll give that a go. Yeah I’m pretty new with using HDV because I’ve pretty much stayed with SD.

Cheers,
Dennis

Dennis Noel Gomez
In house video Editor
FourLeafFilms

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