[Paul Tilsley]

sorry if this is a bit late…but my suggestion is to take your HDV tapes and down-convert them to an Anamorphic( on the Easy Settings) project – machines like the Sony 25 or even cameras mostly have a downconvert to SD facility. Why? because even with your pal’s tower, the machine will render and process far quicker in the SD mode. Also, I do a lot of multiclip work, and often find even in SD when you have more than 4 cameras going into the project simultaneously, there can be playback stutter and drop out in multiclip even in SD – so its far more likely to happen in HDV. And think – if the shape is the same in anamorphic, as you are playing out to SD anyway, why not go this route?

Paul runs Competent Artistes, a very busy small Johannesburg-based production company working in broadcast and corporate for everything from governments to oil and mining companies, funky radio stations and music companies and pro bono for Nelson Mandela and his Children’s Fund. Competent Artistes is CNN’s outside production company for Southern Africa, Paul reports regularly on-air with company-produced reports for CNN. Paul relaxes by racing highly modified ATV quad bikes illegally in midnight quarter mile street races against M3s on nitro outside the Mozambican Parliament, a beautiful straight stretch of tar in Maputo.