[Chris Davies]

Hi Jake,

My edit ended up as 90% HDV and 10% DigiBeta. Looked great when output to DigiBeta. This is what I did.

Set up the project using the Easy setup for HDV 1080i. HDV footage was digitised via Firewire. As the vast majority of footage was HDV, this was the “master” sequence setting used.

The DigiBeta footage was digitised into a seperate project via SDI (I’m using a Decklink Extreme card). The capture preset was Blackmagic 10bit uncompressed. This was all trimmed up (with appropriate handles) and put in a 720 x 576 CCIR 601, Anamorphic 16:9 Uncompressed 10bit sequence.

Then export the whole sequence as a Quicktime Movie with Settings set to HDV 1080i.

Import this QT movie into the HDV project and it will drop right into your HDV sequence.

When you’ve finished editing, you just set the Decklink preferences to output HD to anamorphic SD via SDI (if you haven’t already got it set this way for monitoring). As Luke said earlier: “The Blackmagic HDTV 1080i50 HDV easy setup is using the native HDV sequence. It just configures the video to output via HD-SDI and also to use Blackmagic RS-422 device control for the deck” so that would set everything for you at one go.

Anyway it all worked like a charm and looked great. The Digibeta material didn’t show any ill effects from its trip to HDV and back.

I think your reseller is confusing himself with the different resolutions of HDV & SD. He probably wants you to produce an HDV or other flavour of HD master, which would be higher “quality” (i.e resolution) than DigiBeta, but that isn’t what you need to end up with.

Hope this helps!

Chris

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[Chris Davies]

Thanks Luke, I’ll give it a go.

It’s all “Black Magic” to me!

Chris

[Chris Davies]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Why use the Blackmagic HDTV 1080i50 sequence instead of a native HDV one? Presumably the conform is from HDV to HDTV 1080i50? It seems like a long way round to go to SD.

Regards,

Chris

[Chris Davies]

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Cheers,

Chris
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