[Rayk Hemmerling]

thanks for all the advice. shooting was last saturday and we did a mixure of shooting in front of green (mainly it was already there and we couldn’t repaint it) and in front of a white removable backdrop (mainly for individual full and half figure shots and cu).
there’ll be comps done with the white bg shots and i’ll see what i can do with them.

thanks again,
-rayk

[Rayk Hemmerling]

[Sean ONeil] “BTW, no Blackmagic Design products use S-Video, so this topic doesn’t even belong here. BMD products use SDI, HD-SDI, Composite, and Component. “

oops, i had thought there was something.
anyway, thank you for takeing the time!

cheers!
-rayk

[Rayk Hemmerling]

Hi Neil,

[Sean ONeil] “Again, sorry for sounding rude, but your fundemental understanding is rather weak- which is totally fine. We can’t all be nerds.”

frankly, I feel neither offended by your post nor do I think it was rude.
There are many kinds of nerds out there and I seems to belong just to another tribe 😉
Well, I admit that my understanding of video tech stuff is rather weak, but hey, that’s why I ask questions -before I buy! So no money wasting on my side (yet).
I’d really appreachiate, if you would take the time and straighten the things out for me. Maybe, I didn’t used the right phrasing in my first post. So here’s the point, I don’t seems to cut (forgive me when I talk in laymen terms…):
I have more or less three choices when I want to recocrd video vom my DV-Cam.
a) I record to DV-tape, use a DV-deck later and use firewire to get it into my computer
b) I use the DV-out and record via firewire direct to my computer
c) I use S-video out and use a video A/D card to store the video in some codec in my computer

case a) and b) shouldn’t make a difference. In my understanding DV means 4:2:0 color compression (being in PAL land) and 5:1 intraframe compression.
I know, I can convert my DV-codec to any other codec, I like. So I may choose to convert it into an uncompressed 4:2:2 (or even 4:4:4) codec. But that doesn’t bring me back the information which got lost by the DV-codec in first place.
S-video is an analog form of delivering a video. If I need to store it in my computer, I need to digitize it. Decklink offers such cards,afaik. I could capture and digitize that anaolg video stream into an uncompressed 4:2:2 codec for further proceeding.
If the S-video signal was just a conversion of the DV signal in the camera, I could capture 4:2:2 uncompressed as much as I like, I wouldn’t get more information as in the DV. But, if the S-video signal was independed (or created before the DV conversion), I actually had more information compaired to DV.
Or, what’s wrong with this reasoning?

Thank you very much!

-rayk