[David Ellsworth]

Thanks for the heads up, Jim.

I had thought about HD (I have a raid with FW800) but was under the impression that I’d need an HD monitor? Obviously, I’ve never edited HD before and am a bit cautious. I do have one of those SONY GV-HD700 HDV players and wondered about using that to monitor?

In terms of the film to tape transfer, Digibeta is the best option at the place I’m using (their only other option is Beta-SP) – I could dub Digibeta to DVCPROHD and work in HD as you suggest though. My plan was to do a daily rental of a DVCPRO deck for digitizing and printing to video so I could easily make that rental an HD deck instead of DVCPRO50.

I’d be up for an attempt at editing HD if there aren’t too many technical ‘gotchas’ that might slow down my first time HD editing and affect my final image quality.

Thanks again and any other thoughts appreciated!

[David Ellsworth]

Have you looked at the Nattress film effects matte filter at nattress.com? Would that do the trick?