[Uli Plank]

Try the Photo-JPEG codec at 75% to transfer.

Regards,

uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

The best codec with alpha which keeps gamma intact (even cross platform!) is Sheer from BitJazz. Give it a try!

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

The problem stays the same, but Motion 3 now has a method for slo-mo called “FlowMotion” or “Vector Analysis”. It is slow, but can produce better slo-mos by caculating additional frames. Depending on the actual content, it may look strange at times,but give it a try.

regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

If this is improving quality or not depends only on the amount of graphics, fx or color grading you use and the final output format. You don’t gain anything for HDV itself.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

I’m afraid you are misinterpreting the internal workflow in FCP. You can always grab HDV native and edit it into a HDV timeline to have real-time capabilities during editing. In the very end, before exporting for color grading, you can switch the codec for that timeline to ProRes (or any other format), have it rendered and save it all. FCP will always use the original files as a source for that rendering, so any additional elements will be rendered at full quality and HDV will stay every bit as good (or bad) as it is from the start.

No capture card for any price is going to give you an advantage here, as long as you capture tapes. You can’t improve quality once it’s on tape. Don’t waste money on this.

The only exception is grabbing life from the camera into the computer, which is pristine even with the cheapest Blackmagic Intensity via HDMI. But you won’t get TC anyway in this case.

BTW, re-capturing from HDV was always dead on for the first frame for me, only the length of the tail handles varies slightly at times – but who cares?

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

I rather ask myself if it forces QT 7.4 upon you, which still has issues. Leopard is quite OK by now.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Since you can squeeze a tad more resolution out of the HVX at 1080, I’d go for it in that case. But 1080i is of no use, since you can’t use the extra temporal resolution, so go for 23,98 progressive.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

What’s you final format and how many percent of it will come from either source ?

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

To be a bit on the safer side (speed-wise), a small two disk software RAIDed Taurus e-SATA box with a Sonnett card works without a hitch for me in ProRes HQ. It has cost me less than 300 € for one full TB. Of course, you’ll need a good backup strategy, since this is no RAID5.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Encore is the only solution for the Mac, and it’s running on Intel only. It will not support anything fancier than standard DVD does – other than higher resolution, of course.
Plus, copy protection is expensive (and forced upon you), so a small run doesn’t really make sense economically.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts