Jason OHara
January 5th, 2010, 10:16 AM
I am starting to edit a feature length documentary and am seeking advice/tips to facilitate my workflow and avoid major headaches downstream. I am editing from a massive amount of raw footage close to 200 tapes most of which has already been captured currently with 500GB of raw footage on my drive.
Most of our footage is HDV 60i, however we have decided to edit our final output as SD for a few reasons. Firstly, about 25% of our footage was captured by a previous editor though it was originally recorded on tape as HDV he converted on capture to regular SD anamorphic and we dont have the time to revisit the original tapes. Also, we are using a bunch of archival historical footage from the 50s which is fairly low-res. We figure that upscaling this footage for a hig-res output will contrast too harshly with our full res HD so are opting for a final output of SD anamorphic - a happy compromise.
Had we known that we would go this route, we would have converted all of our HDV footage to SD on capture as I know it would greatly facilitate my workflow if all our footage was the same format (SD) unfortunately all our footage has already been captured in HDV so we are forced to combine the footage.
About 75% of our raw footage will be HDV, often times whole scenes are exclusively HDV and so I have been editing these in HDV sequences which I later drop on to the final output timeline which is SD and the entire sequence downscales to 50%. The nested sequence plays choppy, dropping frames, etc. vs. its smooth playback as an independent HDV sequence.
My primary query revolves around combining these formats, specifically issues relating to nesting sequences but would be grateful for other tips regarding combining different formats. My secondary query relates to keeping organized in the browser how to not become overwhelmed buy the enormous number of folders, sequences ,etc.
Any advice is very much appreciated, Thanks.
Most of our footage is HDV 60i, however we have decided to edit our final output as SD for a few reasons. Firstly, about 25% of our footage was captured by a previous editor though it was originally recorded on tape as HDV he converted on capture to regular SD anamorphic and we dont have the time to revisit the original tapes. Also, we are using a bunch of archival historical footage from the 50s which is fairly low-res. We figure that upscaling this footage for a hig-res output will contrast too harshly with our full res HD so are opting for a final output of SD anamorphic - a happy compromise.
Had we known that we would go this route, we would have converted all of our HDV footage to SD on capture as I know it would greatly facilitate my workflow if all our footage was the same format (SD) unfortunately all our footage has already been captured in HDV so we are forced to combine the footage.
About 75% of our raw footage will be HDV, often times whole scenes are exclusively HDV and so I have been editing these in HDV sequences which I later drop on to the final output timeline which is SD and the entire sequence downscales to 50%. The nested sequence plays choppy, dropping frames, etc. vs. its smooth playback as an independent HDV sequence.
My primary query revolves around combining these formats, specifically issues relating to nesting sequences but would be grateful for other tips regarding combining different formats. My secondary query relates to keeping organized in the browser how to not become overwhelmed buy the enormous number of folders, sequences ,etc.
Any advice is very much appreciated, Thanks.