[J. Tad newberry]

thanks walter,

what a bummer that my Decklink SP card can’t take in DVCPro HD! i figured that wouldn’t be the issue, but i’ve got an email going to BlackMagic to see if they might have a solution. also, i’m surprised that you find HDV to be slower to work with than DVCPro HD as the HDVs are smaller files, ain’t they?

oh well…i guess at this point i’m stuck editing in HDV. hopefully episode #2 will go smoother!

[J. Tad newberry]

aha, thanks Graeme.

what you say makes total sense. i had asked some of these similar questions before going out to shoot this week, and someone had given me the idea to capture my footage at the DVCPro HD codec. i am also shooting HDCam on this project, so maybe the person giving me the advice only meant for me to capture the HDCam stuff at the DVC Pro HD codec. this really gets confusing! so, my main camera is HDCam, my second camera is HDV (1080i), and i’m putting them together on a timeline and have to eventually deliver a master on HDCam tape stock. i don’t have an HDCam deck at my facility, so i was going to do a sort of “offline” at my place, then go to the post house and (spending as little time and money as possible!) recapture whatever needs to be recaptured and dump out to my HDCam master tape.

i realize that if i capture all my HDCam footage at HDV codec it is sort of shooting myself in the foot on all the HDCam shots, but kind of at a loss here where to go next…

in the meantime, i’ll finish capturing my 10 hours of HDV at the HDV codec. thanks again…

[J. Tad newberry]

what portable SATA drive do you recommend for $135?

[J. Tad newberry]

David,

Yours sounds like a great idea. I think i will move in that direction. Thanks again…

[J. Tad newberry]

do you only need the SATA speed (which is how fast anyway?) if we’re doing full HD editing? i still only have a BetaSP deck, so the “biggest” codec i work in is NTSC 8 bit, but more often even just DV50. i’m about to start a show that will be shot in HDCam and HDV, so will do the “offline” on my system (probably all in DV codec for speed and space), and need a good, solid, reliable “fast enough” portable drive to go out of house and capture HDCam (in DV codec). i have a G5 with the various FW ports on it, so would like to know what you all would recommend. thanks again…

[J. Tad newberry]

i should’ve added that i know i can just copy the content of the one project and paste into it a new NTSC project, but just wondering why i couldn’t change the frame rate on the original?

[J. Tad newberry]

cofe,

i’ll be renting time at the studio myself, for the initial capture to my portable drives, as well as any recapturing at the end for the online HDCam master. so you’re saying to capture both the HDCam tapes and the HDV tapes at a DV codec to edit at my place (the “offline”)? also, i forgot to ask in the initial post about graphics that i create in the offline. if my timeline is say, in a DV codec, when i go to my online at full HD resolution (OR, possibly at the DVCProHD codec as suggested earlier), will my graphics resize automatically in the new bigger codec?

pardon my ignorance in all this, but it is a bit tricky jumping from all BetaSP to now mixing HD codecs…

either way, i like your idea of creating the QT reference file for onlining, and then the MM “create offline”. how has your luck with MM been? i haven’t dealt with it much, but i hear horor stories…maybe FCP 6 will be better? anyway, thanks a bunch!

[J. Tad newberry]

David,

thanks for the reply and the advice. did you mean “ONline the HDCam”? just curious…but is the DVDProHD codec small enough for a “fast” offline on my system, and yet good enough to REALLY look like HDCam on an HDCam master tape?

[J. Tad newberry]

very cool indeed! Motion 3 looks like an entirely new program! hopefully FCP 6 and DVD SP 4 will be just as cool.

[J. Tad newberry]

thanks Jerry!

i see i had captured this to my LaCie drive instead of my main media drive (which was full). that seems to have made all the difference in the world! : )