[Dan Mcguire]

Thanks for the insight. I was thinking of rotoscoping the talking head out of the background, putting in a clean background, then I would only have to touch up the frames where BTC intruded on to the head.

Yes, a nightmare.

[Dan Mcguire]

Forgive this question – I’m not up-to-date – but I assume I only need 4k output for a 4k monitor – but why would I need 4k input? Would that be for a live stream? Or some manner of 4k deck?(?!) Or is it to process the denser info of a 4k signal? Isn’t the footage input via Sandisks taken removed from your camera?

I basically edit on my own. When I go 4k I assume the first step, after buying a 4k camera, is to buy an imac with a 4k monitor.

Thanks again.
DMCG

[Dan Mcguire]

My Beta deck does have SDI out (as well as S-video, component, and composite). I don’t really know how big a difference you’d get on SD footage going out SDI as opposed to out component. the signal will ultimately be up-resd to HD.
Will the Ultrastudio express do it? And how do I get the audio in along with the video? The SDI does deliver the audio as well, yes?

[Dan Mcguire]

Well, I am close to a rough cut at this point. Editing is hard enough – I don’t want to try and learn a new program.
I want to winnow down the material to something close to the final version before bringing it into another program (via XML). I plan to bring on an editor to help make that transition and then fine cut, redo titles, sound mix, colorgrade, etc…
So this I/O should work for FCP7 and a newer program.
I am aware of the Blackmagic Design Intensity for $227 and the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Express $470 which have some of the features I need.
Suggestions? Something else, maybe?
Thanks.

[Dan Mcguire]

Did you keep the 4/3 aspect ratio of your SD footage or crop it to 16:9?

I plan to keep the aspect ratio 4:3, and wonder what settings would be used to up-res it? My current digital SD files are Prores 720X486, 29.97 fps, 24 bit audio Little endian.

Compressor doesn’t seem to offer a prores HD 4:3 preset. What would be the settings? Would it stay in Prores?

Thanks.

[Dan Mcguire]

Did Aja or Matrox ever make a card for a mac Power PC tower that would convert to HD and scale? I have an old mac tower and it would be better to convert from a deck via an old mac than have to buy a new card and a new mac tower running OSX.

Still got $20 burning a hole in my paypal account!

DAN

[Dan Mcguire]

Are there any settings you would suggest in Compressor? I need to look at all the options, but I assume there are things like frame blending and interpolation. Remember I need to end up at 24p HD. Thanks again.

[Dan Mcguire]

Thanks to all for these tips. Very much appreciated.

[Dan Mcguire]

Shane, Thanks for this.
I’ll kick you some $ if you get me an email address. I’m dandmcguire at gmail.

I will eventually need to online this project in either Premiere or FCPX, and also need to think about making that transition. I assume I can continue to work with FCP7 until I need to output my xml and import it in to another program – FCPx seems to allow you to change the sequence settings after the fact.

Am I right in thinking that I can drop SD NTSC and SD PAL and HD 1080 24fps footage all in the same sequence of FCPX or Premiere? My footage is 85% SD NTSC, 5% SDPAL and 10% HD. In addition to the resolution issue, there is a frame rate issue. I hope to eventually output at 1080p 24 fps.

Thanks again.DAN

[Dan Mcguire]

Thank you so much, Micheal. I did not realize that the quality settings in the xa10 actually sets dimensions of the frames. I have to shoot everything in highest quality mode if I want to cut the canon 5d footage into it.
So right now I have a ton of xa10 footage which is 1440 x 1080 and 5D footage which is 1920 x 1080

Does it make sense to upscale the xa10 footage to 1920×1080? Is that even possible in Compressor?

Thanks again.
DAN