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Morning Borjis – apologies for the tardy reply. We want our final delivery Master tape to be HD. Currently we are in Native HDV inside the Mac. We also have 24p footage – which lives on it’s own timeline – and which gets rendered if the formats are mixed. Now, here’s the thing: – we are not responsible for the final master…the POST HOUSE ( TBD ) will create the final master. After color correction, audio mix, sound design etc. There is a chance we will have the opportunity to blow-up to film – we are asking the post house to take this into consideration. My question is still: how can I prepare the highest quality, most organized project/product – to the Post House. I suppose the partner question is – am I showing up at the post house with project files and hard drives? Am I showing up with a ‘master tape’ which I’ve created by laying back the BR-50? I am a failry saavy SD FCP editor – and really haven’t had deliverables which stretched beyond authored DVD’s – or a SD print to tape. — So I’m really at the next level of the game, and clawing my way up the learning curve. First step: new capture card? – am I looking to uncompress the HDV? etc. etc.
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hello Borjis
Cheers for picking up this thread. My understanding, was that we were bringing our FW 800 drives to NYC ( we’re in VT ) – hooking up to their systems and going from there. It’s become clear that this is likely to be a big headache! We have the JVC BR-HD50 deck…is it more sensible to do our ‘conforming’ ( and am I correct that this means getting all formats into one – rendered timeline? ) before the on-line? It’s a 2 hour doc. with multiple formats and stock footage. I realize that organizing all this stuff is WHY you go to a post house (!) – but I’d like to do AS MUCH as I can prior…even if that means additional gear and a steep learning curve. What do I do to prep in FCP to get the best picture quality – is it seq. settings? Compression settings w/in seq. settings? Should I export to Compressor and “rebuild” the project in one timeline that’s HD DVC PRO? Am I totally off the mark? Let’s say I DO want to output to tape…my understanding was that HDV can do that. Pursuant of all these questions — is there a post house out there in NYC / Boston / Montreal – that you might recommend? If there is sense to be made in all of this. I thank you in advance for your suggestions. Keith -
Thanks for that — at this point – we’ve captured all the tapes in HDV through the JVC deck via Firewire. We’ve been editing on HDV 720p timelines. We also have 24p timelines — because there was a Panasonic DVX 100 on the shoot as well. So I’ve got multiple formats to deal with – and I’m wondering if there is a “pro-sumer” solution to help prep me for the online. $2500 for the multibridge is not prohibitive – if it’ll save me twice that in the next step. I just don’t know enough about the next step to know how to prepare. Our goal is to get everything to 1080i. Any suggestions? many thanks in advance. Keith
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Hello Wayne –
Question about cross conversion – I have already ingested HDV through the JVC Deck – and I’ve been editing in FCP on a 720p timeline — It’s time for me to get out of HDV as I prep for a more proffesional “on-line” — is cross conversion still an option for me? Is Kona the thing? Or a BlackMagic product? Please weigh in. Thanks