[Michael Garber]

I will definitely try to render out as an animation. Should render a little quicker too, no?

I had already tried doing it in AE with rasterize on. It certainly looked the best. Fonts were arial, so no weirdness with serif on the fonts.

Any settings in Illustrator I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Michael

[Michael Garber]

Thanks guys. Only problem – when I do that, still getting jitters. Tried all the different render settings in FCP for high, normal, and bilinear.

Do you set your psd files to anything more than 72dpi?

[Michael Garber]

[Walter Biscardi] “he Kona 2 is an HD/SD box with realtime up and down convert. Your HDV timeline will play out to the HDCAM deck in realtime just like I play out my DVCPro HD timelines to HDCAM via HD-SDI on the fly. You can also play it out to Analog SD in realtime either using Composite or Component from the K-Box along with the RCA audio outs.”

Sorry if I didn’t explain myself well. I was sending the Kona 2’s SD-SDI Out as a feed to the Io. I use the Io as a converter box so I can feed my SD waveform monitor. I know I could use the K2’s composite outs, but I just happened to have everything set up this way so it was easier to do the test this way. I would never do a broadcast output with the Io because of the frame lag.

Yes, the HDV footage plays from the timeline with no big to-do. It’s only when I edit to tape that it wants to conform. I will be able to test this out with a direct HD-SDI cable and an HD-CAM deck on Saturday.

I’m assuming that it will still want to conform, but I’m hoping that’s just not the case.

thanks again,
Michael

[Michael Garber]

[Walter Biscardi] “Get the client to shoot on HDCAM or DVCPro HD maybe? :-)”

Ha! I wish! All I can say is at least the XL H1 has HD-SDI out. Now, let’s get that functionality in a reasonably priced deck. No matter how much people love the HDV, it’s been a thorn in my side :>

[Walter Biscardi] “What do you mean get the HDV to stop conforming when outputting through the Kona 2? What exactly are you trying to do? You can play out your HDV timeline directly to HDCAM via HD-SDI, but it sounds like you don’t want to do that.”

What I want to do is Edit to Tape an HDV timeline to HD-CAM, using the Kona 2 to upres the material. What I don’t want to do is sit for 6 hours while it conforms a 2 hour concert.

I did a test today using a DV-CAM deck and the analog outs of my Io box which were fed by the Kona 2. It wanted to conform on ETT. So, I’m assuming it does the same thing when going out to HD-CAM via HD-SDI.

I want to start a “Just Say No” campaign to this conforming craziness.

Thanks,
Michael

[Michael Garber]

I also highly recommend DVCPRO-HD. I’m dealing with a 2-hour HDV project right now. HDV media is ok to deal with while you’re editing. And even though HDV files are smaller, the render times on effects, color correction, etc far surpass that of DVCPRO-HD.

Here’s the difference on a G5 dual 2.5:

1 hr. 30 min. of HDV with color correction and broadcast safe plus some titles = 15 hrs to render
1 hr. 30 min of DVCPRO-HD with color correction and broadcast safe plus some titles = 6 hrs to render

And then you still have to conform the media when going out to tape.

[Michael Garber]

Had “Rendered Proxy” checked under the Sequences:Render Selection window. Once I unchecked it, all was good.

[Michael Garber]

Hi David,

Here is what I did –
1. Place HDV clip in HDV timeline.
2. Add G Film Effect (which requires rendering)
3. Select clip in timeline
4. Hit Apple-R

No matter what I do, it comes up with the window “Conforming HD Video.” The clip can be 5 seconds, 10 seconds, or 10 minutes. It still wants to conform it.

Once it’s been conformed, if I change anything in the clip it wants to conform it again upon re-render.

-Michael

[Michael Garber]

[Walter Biscardi] “Seems like way too many steps. I’d look at going Component out of your camera / deck to HD-SDI and capture directly to the DVCPro HD codec. Then perform your entire edit in that codec.”

Hi Walter,

Thanks for the info. Should’ve mentioned that that the show has already been cut in HDV. I’m doing the finishing work. They don’t have the budget to take the time to recapture in a traditional online scenario, so I’m looking at alternatives.

Regards,
Michael

[Michael Garber]

I’ve noticed this as well. Should work fine. Would recommend offlining in DVCPRO100 rather than 1080i uncompressed.

Good luck,
Michael

[Michael Garber]