Marc Brak
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I’m sorry I don’t really have anything to contribute, but I’m also very interested in this subject. I could always simply capture video with a firewire port and that was that, and to be honest I don’t really understand what this is all about, or why I would need a separate device to downconvert HD to SD, if I can also just do that with Final Cut. For example.
So, I’m hoping to learn something from your post 😉
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Thanks guys. I’m still a bit confused though. Most broadcast is still SD, DVD’s are SD, web video of course is much smaller even. You’re saying all of that would look like crap on a HD screen? So what about all those people watching dvd’s on their apple cinema display?
I’m sorry if these are dumb questions, but i’m new this whole ‘reference monitor-Matrox-AJA-Blackmagic-HD’thing. I used to just edit video on my computer and it would come out just fine.
Thanks for your time!
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Ik had something like that once. Right-click the footage in the bin -> ‘interpret footage’ then choose the right format.
Hope that works!
Screw it, let’s do it!
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I didn’t do it myzelf, I went back to the guy who captured it for me and told him to use a different codec.
What he told me he used was FFDSHOW codec. Sonfig it so it will also decode DV. He changed it to MS-DV codec.
The stuff he came back with worked perfectly. Hope it helps!
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OK, I have posted it to Art of the Edit.
So we can clean up here, i guess. Sorry for the mess!
But still i am curious what you FCP gurus would ask in such an interview… 🙂
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Sorry for the double post!
Screw it, let’s do it!
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The best help anyone can give you on this is really: don’t do it. Divx wasn’t designed for editing, nor were mpeg, wmv or any other distribution format. So it just won’t work properly, if at all. Just go with DV Avi.
By the way, i’ve worked with premiere on some pretty worn down pc’s (including my current one), and as long as you save regularly, you should be ok 🙂
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Well, try and export a 4:3 video as 16:9 and it will look stretched.
So, really all you can do is export as 4:3, then import into a 16:9 project, upscale to fit the canvas, and export again (as 16:9).
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DVD is Mpeg2 format, so yes it is compressed. When you export to dvd there are many different presets you can choose from, ranging from low quality to high quality… you might want to experiment with those.
But still, regular dvd is SD (standard definition) and therefore has a much lower resolution than your original HD footage. The only way to get the most out of your HD footage would be to burn it to a HD-DVD – and most folks do not own one yet…
Anyway, this is all just theory as i have no actual experience with HD yet. So if i get it wrong i would very gladly stand corrected:-)
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As far as I know, mpeg2 is a compressed format meant for viewing, not for editing. So when you export to mpeg2, PPro will always recompress, and you’ll lose quality.
Best option IMO would be to export to “standard” windows DV AVI, with export>movie. You can adjust the settings to export without quality loss.
By the way, why would you choose to shoot mpeg2? Especially when you’re shooting HD? On the one hand you’re going for the extra quality of HD, on the other hand you shoot in a lossy, compressed format.
I’m asking out of curiosity, since i only have experience with regular SD avi.
Anyway, hope this helps, and it shouldn’t take long 😉