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Will QuickTime Pro Convert HDV and MiniDV to work on an HD timeline?
I’ve got a bunch of clips (HDV, MiniDV ) that I’m trying to convert to a standard that will work on the same timeline…
Although we’re getting a Kona card in-house, we can’t use the machine with the card, since it’s got bigger projects under way. QT Pro is the only option.
The clips need to play on a DVCPro HD 720p60 timeline with a timebase of 23.98fps. So, in an effort to make this work, I selected an export option of “Movie to Quicktime Movie File”, I select DVCPro HD 720p60, and then selected the frame rate as custom set to 23.98.
However, when I import the converted clip into FCP, it doesn’t display the full frame, unless I set the clip’s composite mode to anything besides “Normal”. That stinks, because it then needs to render.
Also, I must be missing something, because it insists on greying out the quality option, so it’s automatically set to “medium”.
Is it just my settings thus far, or do all conversions come out with jerkiness in the end? And for the good of the order, is a Kona conversion less jerky?
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4 Replies
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JT,
Sounds like a recipe for unhappiness even if you get get all the conversions right. What is your end market for this project? Under any circumstances the DV will not look very good when uprezed to HD or HDV. On the other hand, down converting the HDV to DV will look great… Are you absolutely dead set on finishing HD or HDV?
DRW
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I’m not DEAD-set on finishing in HD. The end product is DVD… If it’s going to provide the best product, overall, to be editing in DV, then what are my options?
The interviews for this project are shot on the HVX200 in HD, while the b-roll material is on MiniDV primarily, and HDV secondarily.
I need to eliminate render times during the edit, so what’s the best path?
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YOu need a capture card in order to capture all the footage into the DVCPRO HD format. That is just the simpliest way to do it, and what I’d do in your situation. if you are getting a card but for a different machine, capture all the footage on that machine onto the project drive, or another drive and copy it over.
In using QT pro, did you also set the dimensions to match what DVCPRO HDs are? 960×720 using the 720p60 compressor?
Shane
Alokut Productions
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Thanks everyone!
I’ll not be using a capture card…
So finally, if I were to reverse the flow, and to down-convert things (including HD) onto a DV timeline, would this roughly be the same process in QT Pro? I’d want to down-convert the HD and HDV footage to MiniDV res, right? What’s the smoothest way to get 24p material onto 29.97 timeline?
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