Martin Munthe
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For PPro and HDV exports to and from AE you need one of the Cineform plugins (www.cineform.com). You’ll do fine with the cheapest one. Cineform brings you and intermediate codec – much like Apples Intermediate codec. This way you’ll be working in a lossless 4:2:2 space even iof the original mpeg stream is very lossy. The idea is to not recompress mpeg which would be a disaster. Keep in mind that HDV puts rather heavy demands on your CPU. This is because intermediates transcodes in realtime during capture.
HDV is in its infancy. It’s not going to be a ride without bumps. It’s like the DV revolution all over again. The first couple of years every bit of software out there had problems with TC, machine controls, sync drifts and general color space issues. All of that is present in HDV editing software right now. It’ll be up to specs in a couple of years. Until then: be a pioneer.
Martin Munthe
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Tim. My experience is that when I capture HDV on a fast machine I get good quality video. 1×1 “clone” of what my camera produces. And when I capture HDV on a slower machine I get strange behavior and quality loss. Sometimes very obvious and sometimes not as obvious. That all reminds me of working with analog sources. It may be a good capture and it may not. Let’s hope it’s good. And I don’t want “hope” to be in the picture. I want Premiere Pro to tell me something’s gone wrong when it has. If something happens to my twelve frames of long GOP limbo that’s a software interpretation and my eyes won’t see it in editing – I’m going to have a rude awakening in After Effects when I start to tweak all that file of missing information.
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Well. The thing is I don’t have any problems capturing HDV. I’m having trouble capturing DV. I can’t use the HC1 as a regular DV source (with it’s VCR HDV->DV internal setting). I’ve checked the camera with EDIUS, Vegas, Windows Movie maker and Avid. All of them can handle the HC1 as a DV device. Premiere Pro can only handle the HC1 as a HDV device using the Cineform driver. It can’t handle it as a standard Sony DV device.
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Apart from this thread I don’t get one hit with “HC1” as a search term. In any forum here at the Cow. And this is really a Premiere Pro problem and belongs here since I can capture the downconverted mpeg stream with a simple application like Windows Movie Maker.
Can this be a confusion i Premiere Pro when Cineform is involved? Does Cineform confuse Premiere Pro from knowing if it’s dealing with a DV device or a HDV device? I can capture regular HDV from the camera but the downconversion doesn’t work. The machine I’m working on right now is not really up to specs on editing HDV (I get drop frames – or rather “drop seconds” as we’ll be getting used to editing long GOP’s) so I would like to edit DV.
Martin Munthe
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