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Working with captured HDV format in DV Sequences
Hi, I`m in a little situation here!
I have captured and edited some HDV footage in HDV sequence (HDV1080i60), and it worked fine. But now I need to deliver this material as a DVD, but thats not all. I know I could simply export using compressor in the DVD 16:9 preset and it would work, but I also have some animations that need to be in the middle of the animation and these were exported as DV from After Effects.
For this reason I have made a new DV sequence in my project and simply dragged the HDV sequence into it. After the very long render, it seemed fine (not distorted, I mean). Then I put my animations in it and exported using compressor as a 4:3 best quality MPEG2. The result came as a terrible interlaced and flicking image, even with the de-interlace filter. I also realized later that the video was automatically resized to fit in the DV sequence (maybe this is what is causing the problems in the quality of the MPEG2).
I would like to know what I should have done in the first place to avoid these problems, or if there`s a solution for them at the actual phase of the project.
Any help would be great! Thanks.
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2 Replies
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Hi Chris,
This may not be exactly what you were looking for…but I don’t think I’d use that kind of a workflow? You’re running into issues with HDV. HDV 60i is upper field first, but DV is lower. So that’s one problem. FCP will resize to fit the HDV into the SD sequence, otherwise you’d only see about half of the image.
Since you didn’t get the animations in HD and your footage will look better compressed in HDV, you might want to see if you can author ‘in’ the animations around your footage. Either by using chapter marks and connections or laying it over on the DVDSP timeline.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Maybe export the HDV sequence to a DV codec mov then add your DV animations to your DV file in a DV Sequence in FCP, then on to the DVD creation. I guess it all depends on render times…
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