[Liam Lawyer]

I am working specifically with DVCPro HD mainly, so that is what I need to encode to. I am using consumer Canon camera’s (HV-20) for the HDV material so I need some sort of conversion tool.

Plus I am currently using FCP 5.1.4

Thanks!

Liam Lawyer
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[Liam Lawyer]

First off- you should read the whole thread. I mention that I am using SOME hdv – but our main camera is DVCPro HD. I am well aware they are different! Sorry for the confusion…

We are shooting 3/4 of our material in DVCPro HD and using a Canon HDV camera as a second camera here and there.

Have you (or anyone else reading this) seen/ used this HDV-to-SDI device? It sounds awesome…

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/470699-REG/Convergent_Design_HDCSI_HD_Connect_SI_HDV_to.html#features

Liam Lawyer
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[Liam Lawyer]

Stupid question – what is the easiest way to do this?

We don’t own an HDV Deck – just load from our cheap-o Canon Handcams. We are shooting 24p style (not actually 24p) so I think it limits what we can load from. Do you have any insight on another method?

Thanks much!

Liam

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[Liam Lawyer]

Each show is at least 10-12 hours of DVCPro HD 29.97 (59.94) footage. And then another 3-5 hours of HDV footage. Right now the episode I am working on has about 470 GB of material.

So at least 5 of those plus an sd project or 2 (and another 1hour HD show with TONS of footage) is getting our 15 TB of space packed up nice!

I think we are going to do some more aggresive media managing (ie moving off fine cuts to ext drives etc) possibly instead.

But want to keep my options open!

Thanks!

Liam Lawyer
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[Liam Lawyer]

Thanks for the info!

The issue for offline is space – we will have at least 5 1/2 hour shows with lots of footage each and at least 2 hour long SD shows as well on our shared storage.

I am hoping that we can manage the projects so we can get stuff off in a timely fashion, but some of the shows may need to stay on for a few months til they air. We may be consolidating instead if we can..

Thanks!

Liam Lawyer
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[Liam Lawyer]

Hey Jeremy!

I am on 6.0.2 and no smooth cams in this project.. BUT I think I found the issue.

I am in the middle of doing lots of media managing/ consolidating and I think because it was pulling from some of the old media that was in the trash it was having some render disconnect.. as soon as I trashed the old files it seems to now hold its renders.

Thanks though!

– Liam

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[Liam Lawyer]

Also if you use Nattress’s g-nicer or another color smoothing plugin you can get pretty decent results.. are you doing talking heads or more complicated stuff?

In a project I am working on I used this combo of plugins to get a good result

1 Nattress G-nicer (this cleans up the chroma ugliness)
2 color key
3 nattress Sharpened interlaced (set to 4:2:0)

Nattress plugins are pretty cheap and come in handy here and there for sure..

Check it out!

Liam Lawyer
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[Liam Lawyer]

Or motion ;-)?

[Liam Lawyer]

Alrighty then.. thanks!

[Liam Lawyer]

Are there other disadvantages to slowing it down? Not that that is not reason enough not to do it…

Thanks!