[Uli Plank]

Once you started in 1080i, stick to it. Good de-interlacing is time-consuming and takes quality away.

Discovery not only wants 1080, they also dont’t accept more than a certain amount of low-cost camcorder footage (including the HVX) in the whole project. We had this discussion before here at the Cow, just search for it.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Yes. Conversions just take time and can decrease quality.

1080i from the Pana is only about 10% better than 720p. And compressed (for broadcast) 720p looks much better than 1080i if the bandwidth is the same.

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Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

I’m quite sure it will, but maybe Apple wants to wait until the dust of the formats war has settled?

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Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Once conformed again (by just exporting a self-contained QT movie in HDV) the MPEG-2 from HDV is compatible with the one used on both HD formats for optical disks. The problem is finding a decent authoring program…

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Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

I have to fifth what others said (can one say so in English?).

The problem with HDCam is this: while it’s a highly compressed format (only a bit more bandwidth than DVCProHD), which could be edited native, Sony doesn’t support/allow this to anybody but themselves. Panasonic OTOH has licensed their codec, so Apple is supporting it very well. Because of this, the only route to go is uncompressed. That means serious bandwidth, a HD-SDI card from AJA or BlackMagic and tons of very fast (and reliable) storage

[Uli Plank]

What will be your final product?

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

While it would have been easier if you shot in 25pn mode at 50p, you can always slow down your clip with the Cinema Tools “conform” function (applied to the clip, not a so called “project”).

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Hi Mandar

You can see it because FCP is (more or less) able to mix and match everything (even if changes in speed won’t look perfect). It should have shown you the red bar and have forced you to render the footage, though, when it was first cut it. What you can do is this:

– set up a PAL timeline (matching precisely the settings of your source clips)
– open your NTSC timeline, keeping them both open
– double click on every clip in the NTSC sequence, so it opens in the viewer
– drag the clip from the viewer into the PAL timeline

If you don’t need rendering in the PAL version, everything should be OK.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

SD works fine with either a small RAID via FW800 or with an S-ATA adaptor in the card slot. HD uncompressed is currently not really possible on a laptop. You’ll have to wait 2 or 3 years 😉

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Sorry for being the one to bring bad news.
I’m afraid you’ll have to redo the whole project, since there’s one thing you can’t change after the fact: Your NTSC timeline has 29,97 fps, PAL needs 25. Unfortunately you can’t change this value when there’s already something in the timeline, so image size is not your worst problem. While FCP accepts different speeds in the clip and in the sequence, it will not do a smooth conversion. That’s why we need tools like Graeme Nattress’ for PAL <-> NTSC conversion.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.