[Teague Fleury]

yeah, like i said originally, i am still learning so I wasn’t quite sure if ProRes HQ was necessary. Now that i know it’s not, i am excited to be able to capture more efficiently and know that i am on the right path.

The moral of the story is that i should capture using ProRes, edit all my footage (60i and 30P) in a 30P timeline at original size of 1440 X 1080, and then scale to 1920 X 1080 when finished. I guess there is nothing left to do but start capturing!!!

I can’t thank you guys enough for all your help, it means a great deal to me.

-Teague

NOMAPSfilms.com

One Man. Two Wheels. No Maps.

NOMAPS Films is currently in post production on a feature length HD documentary film about a solo motorcycle adventure from CT to Panama… and back.

[Teague Fleury]

So it’s definitely worth the extra storage space to capture to ProRes HQ? I read in a seperate forum that by capturing hdv to prores, the footage compresses even further rather than making an exact copy by capturing to native hdv. I want to know what’s best before i spend weeks capturing all this footage. Thanks very much for your help.

-Teague

NOMAPSfilms.com

One Man. Two Wheels. No Maps.

NOMAPS Films is currently in post production on a feature length HD documentary film about a solo motorcycle adventure from CT to Panama… and back.

[Teague Fleury]

that is exactly what i need and it’s in my price range, it only has internal ports though and i need external. i think the similar version from Sonnet with external ports is almost $300.

NOMAPSfilms.com

One Man. Two Wheels. No Maps.

NOMAPS Films is currently in post production on a feature length HD documentary film about a solo motorcycle adventure from CT to Panama… and back.

[Teague Fleury]

I actually was just checking my footage today to see how many GB’s were in one minute of HDV capture.
I assume you are using FCP, so open the project file folder and go to the capture scratch folder. Open it and you should have all your footage that you captured inside this folder (or multiple folders depending on how you captured the original footage). The next part is tedious but shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. Just right click on each file and select “get info”. There is a line item in get info that shows duration. Just get a calculator out or a piece of paper and write down the duration for each file. Add it up and that will give you your total minutes/hours of footage captured. Hope that helps.

Teague
NOMAPSfilms.com