[Chris Borjis]

[George Loch] “With HDV however, it would make a difference by bumping the source to a 4:2:2 codec and never going back IF you are doing some serious manipulation.”

Thats what I’ve been doing all along and everything has turned out nice as a result 🙂

Thanks for the clarification.

[Chris Borjis]

[George Loch] “It’s not bit depth, it’s color space.”

Can you be more specific?

The quality options buried in FCP have options for 8-bit, 10-bit and 32-bit precision YUV as far as rendering is concerned.

When color correction is applied to a clip its rendered isn’t it?

[Chris Borjis]

I have a quad G5 so there’s plenty of cpu cycles (and then some lol) when working with HDV.
The first time I edited in HDV I was blown away how well the machine handled it.

I have the decklink multibridge extreme and find capturing via component a more time consuming
process at my facility. Does DVCPRO-HD support full resolutions? I was under the impression
it didn’t (1280×720 is 960×720 etc….would rather not be doing that)

as far as better than 8-bit color correction, does the color corrector not support the
32-bit float precision processing? That would be more than adequate.

[Chris Borjis]

[George Loch] “Editing HDV natively (Which it does do) is not a great way to handle HD anyway.”

From my experience thats not true at all.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with capturing/editing in HDV then doing the final output nested in an uncompressed 10-bit timeline before going back to HDCam or mpeg2 transport stream for blu-ray or hd-dvd.

Graeme Natress has advocated this as a great way to maintain quality from start to finish and in my experiences he is 100% correct.

[Chris Borjis]

Tried the 3D Text.

Wow!

What a great titler. Couldn’t live without it for sure.

Boris Rocks.

[Chris Borjis]

yeah whatever that new cardbus format is. one of those tethered to the MBE with a Canon H1. thats the ticket!

[Chris Borjis]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Yes, the text looks quite ugly and we are monitoring on our
pro sony SDI monitor that has 900 lines of resolution.

as a test I made a DVD and the text looks way ugly there as well
and it should look nice so something is definitely wrong.

Are you sure that field dominance should be zero?

These are being output to Digibeta and thus it must be interlaced.

[Chris Borjis]

Will try it out.

Thanks Matte!

[Chris Borjis]

turning off the shadows fixes it.

But how can I do it WITH shadows and keep it nice?
I know clients will want it like that.

[Chris Borjis]

doesn’t “mirror on desktop” actually give you a lower quality image and not
true pixel for pixel monitoring?

I have the exact same setup as you Ken.

You do have to check every place in final cut pro where your video size/format/framerate is defined to ensure it all works.

I find this a bit annoying. I wish finalcut had one setting (like the easy setup you can have popup on fcp launch) and when you set it for BMD 1920×1080 59.94 it damn well sets EVERYTHING to that.