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Using HDV in a Standard-Def project
Hey gang…
I might cross-post this in a couple of forums…
I feel a little foolish for not knowing the best way to do this, but here goes…
We usually live in the HD or SD world, and don’t mix-n-match the two much… however, now I have to and I’m wondering the very best way to use HDV footage in an NTSC project to get the best results.
Footage is aquired with a Canon XLH1, and edited with Premiere 3.0 on a Matrox AXIO LE system.
No matter what I do, downconverted footage just doesn’t look quite as good as footage natively shot as standard-def. I would think it would be possible for the footage to look just as good, if not better.
The options I’ve tried are:
1) Capturing the footage as HDV in a Premiere HDV project, then dropping it onto the timeline in a Standard-Def project and resizing with motion.
2) Capturing the footage as HD in a Premiere uncompressed 10-bit project, then dropping it onto the timeline in a Standard-Def project and resizing with motion.
3) Downconverting in camera and capturing the footage as 16:9 DV footage, then dropping it onto the standard-def timeline and using the 16:9 ratio which gives me the full-screen “center punch” that I need.
None of these options give me a result that seems quite as sharp as native standard-def, in a side-by-side test.
Before we got this AXIO system, I had an AJA system and would capture HD as SD with Machina (which allows choosing letterboxed, centerpunched, or anamorphic)… and those results seemed to be better, at least in my memory… but that is no longer an option with the Matrox system.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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2 Replies
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There is a long thread on this subject;
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5b2fb/33 -
Finally found the right set of hoops to jump through… now getting good results….
Thanks,
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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