Kent Kajino
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Are these the same?:
1. Sequence setup is stereo, and Lt is panned all the way left and Rt is panned right in the audio mixer.
2. Sequence setup is dual mono.
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Seems like DVCPROHD is limited to 8-bit, and its native resolution is 1280×1080. Pixel aspect ratio of 1.5 is what makes the codec play at 1920. If you want to keep your uncompressed files, maybe you can just recompress the files into DVCPROHD, and cut in DVCPROHD, then reconnect back to the uncompressed media before outputing to HDCAM tape. DVCPROHD is 1/10 of the size of uncomressed, yet I couldn’t distinguish between them when they showed me a comparison shot at the post house. Only then, I knew that DVCPROHD was good enough for me.
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Have you tried going straight from HDV to export to DVD using compressor?
My workflow involved converting HDV to DVCPROHD, but the DVD looks best when I do the DVD compression directly, rather than downconverting to SD then compressing to DVD. It takes a long, long time, though, even with a quad G5.
I only made an SD version of the sequence in order to check subtitles, because it’s much quicker to make changes and re-burn DVD’s. And this looks much worse than going straight from an HD timline.
I eventually output to HDCAM from DVCPROHD, but I was making test DVD’s for checking how it looks on my living room TV.
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Since I had more time than I had money, and I wasn’t renting an editing suite, I captured in HDV and recompressed (in this case blow-up) to uncompressed using media manager.
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How about Digital Betacam? Is DigiBeta limited to 4 channels, or does it have 8? I saw in the spec sheet that DVW-M2000 DigiBeta deck has 8 channels of AES/EBU audio out (BNC connectors), so does that mean there are 8 channels on DigiBeta? Is it simply connecting the six channels to the 25pin D-sub audio in connector on the back of CP500?
Or, is the only way to get true 5.1ch audio without a Dolby E en/decoder is to play back from HDCAM using a deck that has 8 discreet outputs?
(The guy at the theater is getting irritated by all my questioning, and insists on playing back from DVD, which is completely unaccaptable. And the show starts on the coming Friday… This whole mess is giving me major heartburn. I should have gone to Thailand to make a 35mm print that would play anywhere)
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How about this? Mail your tapes to a friendly post house and have them digitize to DVCPROHD, then have the hard drive mailed back to you. DVCPROHD looked indistinguishable from uncompressed HD, yet it takes up only 10% of hard drive space.
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I’ve seen some of what you’ve described.
I had a large project that was shot mainly in DF, but with some footage in NDF. The sequence was NDF.
I had some (but not many) recaptured footage being shifted some, but I didn’t have enough time to determine if it was the recapture or the media manager that introduced it. The project was ported into FCP from Adobe PP via Automatic Duck, so there were too many variables in my case. -
The new $250 HDMI out card from Blackmagic might fit the bill for HD monitoring on a tube HDTV.
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A post house recommended DVCPROHD for onlining because I was on a tight budget. Once they showed me the frames from uncompressed and the same frame in DVCPROHD, the differences were barely distinguishable, which was good enough for me. 1/10th bandwidth in comparison to uncompressed more than makes up for the marginal difference in apparent quality, if you need to minimize your costs.
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Your response is right on the money! Thank you very much for the insight.
The actor did mention having a company, so he may be able to work for us non-union the way you described. Prior to reading your message, I didn’t know what exactly his personal corporation was for. Will see if he’s actually willing to go non-union.
Many thanks!
Kent