[Arwa Merchant]

Hello all
I have been reading and following all the threads related to HDV worflow. I am in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I am working on an hour long documentray shot completely on HDV using the Sony camera. I have about 22 hours of footage, which I will be looking at tomorrow.
I wanted some suggestions on my workflow. I am working with FCP 5, a G5 dual processor, 2GB, no capture card, but can get one if needed.
I have been deciding to edit native HDV, capture all the footage via firewire onto 500GB FW800 drives. But it seems like almost everyone prefers converting the HDV footage to an i-frame format. but what’s the point of having the native codec, if you are going to convert everything.
Secondly, considering the amount of footage I have, i can’t convert it to a 10-bit uncompressed format. It would take way too much time.
My next option is to downconvert my HDV footage during capture to DV-PAL. Am I going to lose a lot of picture quality? What are the cons if I stay native?
My master has to be a digibeta PAL.
Please advise me on my workflow. I don’t have a capture card, but I can get one if it is essential to my edit nd the final output.
Thank You.

[Arwa Merchant]

Hello all
I have been reading and following all the threads related to HDV worflow. I am in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I am working on an hour long documentray shot completely on HDV using the Sony camera. I have about 22 hours of footage, which I will be looking at tomorrow.
I wanted some suggestions on my workflow. I am working with FCP 5, a G5 dual processor, 2GB, no capture card, but can get one if needed.
I have been deciding to edit native HDV, capture all the footage via firewire onto 500GB FW800 drives. But it seems like almost everyone prefers converting the HDV footage to an i-frame format. but what’s the point of having the native codec, if you are going to convert everything.
Secondly, considering the amount of footage I have, i can’t convert it to a 10-bit uncompressed format. It would take way too much time.
My next option is to downconvert my HDV footage during capture to DV-PAL. Am I going to lose a lot of picture quality? What are the cons if I stay native?
My master has to be a digibeta PAL.
Please advise me on my workflow. I don’t have a capture card, but I can get one if it is essential to my edit nd the final output.
Thank You.

[Arwa Merchant]

Thanks Dale. This makes things a alot clearer for me. I’m going to have to to go the BM way, coz we have interviews and sound sync is crucial to our work. Would you be able to suggest in particular what RAID drives I should invest in and approximately how much storage space I would require and the kind of connection fibre channel, or SCSI or anything else?
Thanks.

[Arwa Merchant]

I am going to start cutting a project on FCP5 in Dubai, shot on the varicam at 720p25p. I would like some advise on the workflow. Like which drives to buy, coz at 25p FW is not supported. I would also like info about specific presets to capture the footage using the blackmagic card.
Also if i shoot at 720p24p instead of 720p25p and go via FW what problems will i face in a PAL world. Would 720p24p be preferrable than shooting at 720p25p, expense wise and ease in workflow? This is going to be used for braodcast. Since there are no HD broadcasters here, my master will be a digibeta. Please advise. Thank You.

[Arwa Merchant]

I did change the option to white and then re-render and still I was having the same problem.

-Arwa