Peter Dewit
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Magic bullet also makes a good film look filter but the rendering times are pretty crazy.
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HDV to SD is a tricky process. You could also try dropping the HDV footage on a DV sequence, rendering in FCP then exporting that.
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You could use the media manager tool and recompress those clips as something your older system will understand.
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if you have the logged clips still in your FCP bins and you logged them properly recapturing shouldn’t be too difficult
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May be a stupid question but is the footage in the timeline marked green on the top? It sounds like you’re getting a preivew playback that may need to be rendered.
I’d also check your RT settings and make sure they’re at high or dynamic.
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The camera may be looking for a DV input. Check it’s VCR settings to make sure it’s in HDV mode. Are you letting FCP conform the HDV then letting it play back in Print to Tape? it won’t just loop out of the firewire like Dv will.
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I suggest that program so much I think i need to start asking for royalties….
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Automatic Duck also makes a tool to translate Avid sequences into AE compoistions. Might be worth looking into.
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You realize that DVCPRO50’s quality is more comparable to Digibeta’s than BetaSP’s right? You’re simply comparing footage from different quality sources. To do a real test compare the same footage in Prores and in DVCPRO50 or uncompressed.
I’ve tried it on BetaSP footage. After transcoding footage to ProresHQ the difference between the Prores and an uncompressed version were barely noticable evne on a professional monitor.
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I’ve never done a side by side comparision but I’ve found both programs will usually give you good results. Compressor’s intergration with FCP is nice but it ties up the program. Compressor does a good job of automatically picking up the settings of your sequence from FCP and setting things accordingly. For Sorenson you need to add the extra step of making a QT reference movie but that’s really not much of a hassle. You might also have to set the settings manually more often.
One thing I’ve found about compressor is it’s 2-pass mpeg2 processing is painfully slow at times as are the frame control rendering times.
Give Sorenson a try and see how it works for you. Since you’ve got it already it can’t do any harm.