[Valery Lyman]

Hi Peter, I had a question about this too.

I’m in a similar position. I have a ton of HDV footage (80 hours) that was shot at 23.98, and 53 hours of full HD DSLR footage that was shot at 23.98 as well. I am trying to edit it all in Avid, and my first question – how to get the HDV in.

Bringing it in with a DNx220 codec looks pretty good, but the files are huge (over 100GB for each hour).

I can pull it in off of a deck, but then the timecode breaks every time there was a break in recording. Or, I can pull it through a black magic, but the problem there is that the the original timecode from the tapes isn’t recorded in the black magic card, so I can never go back to those tapes in an online.

What would you recommend here? I’m having a hell of a time with it.

Thank you so much.

[Valery Lyman]

Hi Peter, I had a question about this too.

I’m in a similar position. I have a ton of HDV footage (80 hours) that was shot at 23.98, and 53 hours of full HD DSLR footage that was shot at 23.98 as well. I am trying to edit it all in Avid, and my first question – how to get the HDV in.

Bringing it in with a DNx220 codec looks pretty good, but the files are huge (over 100GB for each hour).

I can pull it in off of a deck, but then the timecode breaks every time there was a break in recording. Or, I can pull it through a black magic, but the problem there is that the the original timecode from the tapes isn’t recorded in the black magic card, so I can never go back to those tapes in an online.

What would you recommend here? I’m having a hell of a time with it.

Thank you so much.