[Jaketenniel]

Thanks Pamela

on the first issue – resizing composer window – I cannot make it any bigger than a certain size – which wasn’t the case originally. It could go as big as I wanted.

Regards importing footage -thanks for the tip that’s worked great. However my sequence stills appears to be 720×576 as my 480×270 footage sits with black all around it – I want to have the footage filling the screen, without scaling it up and losing resolution. I guess I’m asking how do I change my sequence settings to match my footage settings as I’ll want to end up exporting it as a quicktime (480×270) with no black borders.

JAke

[Jaketenniel]

phew.

So, is my HDV footage in my uncompressed timeline still subject re compression when rendering as I\m still referncing the original media? Or does putting it into the Uncompressed timeline actually make it uncompressed once rendered?

Jake

[Jaketenniel]

Hi Shane

It was captured native HDV not AIC, or does dropping HDV into a 10bit sequence add AIC?

Jake

[Jaketenniel]

So, convert the timeline via quicktime conversion or after effects from HDV to SD before any grading? Or do you think grading in HDV will be fine then Convert ready for final output?

JAKe

[Jaketenniel]

Hi

I’m also experiencing soft looking images on downcoversion on my monitor.

I am working in HDV – sequence settings Apple HDV but playback set to Blackmagic HDTV 25-8bit for monitoring via component on my External monitor.
Playback settings are on full with nothing needing rendering in the timeline.

I did a test with HDV footage downconverted to DV PAL, in a DV timeline and the image was significantly sharper.

Any clues?

Jake

G5 Dual 2.5
OS 10.4.2
FCP 5.0.3
BM Drivers 5.1

[Jaketenniel]

Hi

I was wondering about this too. As firewire captured HDV is a compressed codec, surely any grading and titles added in native HDV will cause rendering and therefor generation loss. Is it not better to put it into an uncompressed codec and do grading and titles there?

Jake

[Jaketenniel]

Hi Chris

I’m glad it worked out good for you. It’s good to hear as I was afriad that I’d be losing quality through generation loss of HDV to Digi Beta by putting it in a new uncompressed timeline which would mean a shift of feilds and a Render before anything else. But if it works keeping it all HDV, then great.

Did your graphcis and name straps all keep thier quality too?

I’m not Mastering for a couple of weeks, so thanks for boosting my confidence

Jake

[Jaketenniel]

Hi all

I have the same situation arising as Chris – Mostly HDV footage+some Beta SP. I need to Create A Digi Beta Master.
All my HDV footage has been captured by Firewire. I’ve since been told by a blackmagic reseller that I’ll lose significant quility by trying to Master to DigiBeta via the decklink. So much quality that I shouldn’t even bother trying. How true is this?

What’s the best workflow to keep maximum quality?

Should I Drop my final Picture locked sequence into an uncompressed Blackmagic Timeline, do grading, effects & titles here to keep quality, then layoff to tape? Or am I losing too much quality by doing this?

Do I keep any quality by laying off my Final HDV Sequence via firewire to HDV, then recapturing via component from the Camera (SONY Z1 Downconverted to SD) to an uncompressed blackmagic timeline timeline? Or should I auto-conform my HDV timeline straight into a blackmagic uncompressed timeline via SD componant.

Or am I best to import the whole HDV program into After Effects and render out the entire program to a blackmagic uncompressed codec?

As you can see, I