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Uprezzing project
I have edited and outputted my doc as DV NTSC 4:3.
I now need to make the project be HDCAM 1080/60i
What is the best way to do this?
1) re-output the project, and if so, what is the process?
2) uprez the master QT?
What has been tried and true for best digital projection resolution
for a theater?Thnx.
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[S.E. Ball] “What is the best way to do this?”
Take your tape to a facility that has a Terranex and run it thru that onto a D5 or HDCAM tape.
Next best thing, recapture the file with a Kona 3 as 10-bit uncompressed 1080i then output that to tape. But the full-on Terranex box has terrific noise reduction capabilities.
No idea about projection. If the place has a D5 or HDCAM deck, just playing it off that should be fine. But, depends on the projector.
Shane
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If your source material is SD, then I hear a lot of people play back from DigiBeta.
Mine was in HD, so I played back from HDCAM.
Either way, the biggest problem I found with many theaters is the audio playback. The older houses don’t accomodate 5.1ch playback from a video deck unless you rent all the necessary decoders and stuff such as Dolby-E, which I hear are expensive. And Lt/Rt was a big let down for the sound mixer. To get 6 discreet chanels, I would have had to rent a D5 or HDCAM SR deck. (the projectionist kept telling me to play from a DVD, which does surround sound decoding) Thinking back, BluRay or HDDVD might have been a good compromise.
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I never said anything about surround or audio problems.
I’m uprezzing from SD to HD in stereo.Shane’s suggestions are sound.
I will see about doing a test with the Terrazino.Thnx.
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I did my original output as uncompressed QT’s.
Never laid back to tape.There are twelve uncompressed/lossless QT’s (DV_NTSC_48kHzStereo) that make up the total feature.
Should I re-export these QT’s as a dif rez?
Maybe do a test at the original native output and then with a slightly
larger rez with the Terraex……Thnx
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Sherwood,
The answer to your question is not quite as simple as a one pass uprez. Because your original is DV, your titles and graphics will all become mush. To really handle this properly you need split out all titles and graphics from the entire project — uprez the video on Terranex — put your your graphics on an HD timeline and redo as necessary — combine the new HD video and the your graphics and titles on the HD timeline.
DRW
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YIKES!
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Sherwood,
Or, you could just project SD from tape — it’ll look great, especially on a really good video projector. Doing HD may be a lot more trouble than its worth, but only you can answer that…
DRW
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Sorry, I just assumed that if you’re doing hidef at a theater, you might have created a 5.1 surround mix.
Just telling you about the mistakes I’ve made, so noone else will. My sound supervisor was really pissed when she found out the theatre could only do stereo, unless I had a film print. I also got a couple of complaints about the non-surround playback from the audience, as well.
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Thank you for sharing with us.
The festival requirement for digital projection is HDCam/1080/60i.
Whaddaryagonnado?Stereo will have to do at this point.
I could output some of the ambience, explosions, etc to dif audio outputs
during eventual HD layback……. good idea.THNX.
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What about my AE vid clips I created?
Can I just re-render at higher rez?
Thnx.
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Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
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