David Garvin |
May 14th, 2008 01:10 PM |
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Originally Posted by Glyn Williams
(Post 876936)
I don't think this can possibly work.
HDV is simply is not engineered to work at arbitrary frame-rates and arbitrary bit-rates. Go with the ProRes workflow.
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I'm not sure what you mean by saying it can't work, because it absolutely does work. Even the Apple doc makes it clear that you can select other codecs besides ProRes and that they're just using ProRes for their example "Note: ProRes is used as an example in this workflow; other codecs can also be used." I just chose to use the HDV codec.
And I don't know what you mean by saying HDV isn't engineered to work at arbitrary frame rates either. These frame rates aren't arbitrary. I'm not trying to use 19.563 fps for goodness sake. HDV footage can be captured directly into FCP using 60i or 24p. If this was shot at 24p with the A1, you could use FCPs 24p settings, but since the HV20 has an irregular cadence, you have to use 60i. If you wanted to, you could leave it in 60i and edit and export it that way as well. The only thing that's happening to the frames after using Compressor is that all the interlaced frames are fixed. I've watched the footage, frame by frame, counting as items move in and out of the shot, there's nothing odd happening here at all.
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Originally Posted by Glyn Williams
(Post 876936)
And don't be tempted to scale the frame up or down. Compressor does a bad job of scaling.
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I'm not scaling anything. Why would I?
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