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Viewer HD/SD Output Quality
Hi all,
I’m writing this on behalf of a friend. He has ten hours of HD footage and a bunch of SD footage and has to work in an SD project with the footage. This isn’t generally a problem as his PAL timeline handles the down-conversion of the HD fine. However, when he views some of the HD rushes in his Viewer they look terrible on the monitor because the project is outputting the HD with a PAL signal. Because I guess the HD clips are being pushed through a PAL pipeline and are looking all jagged and nasty. Unfortunately there’s no black magic card or the like – just the standard FCP firewire output options. He is going to the monitor via an Sony HDV deck through firewire.
Does he have any other options to get his footage looking decent besides exporting (conforming) the 10 hours of HD to SD?
Thanks for any wisdom offered!!
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I vote for converting all the HD footage to SD before editing. FCP’s scaling isn’t great. Use Compressor and choose best for all quality choices (especially in the Frame Controls tab).
John
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[Dale Vedder] “Does he have any other options to get his footage looking decent besides exporting (conforming) the 10 hours of HD to SD? “
Pick up a card to do this. If you want to edit in HD and output to SD, then you either capture to SD during digitizing (which most HDV decks will do in realtime) or get a capture card to convert the HD output to SD.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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