Brian Cassar
February 14th, 2008, 12:44 PM
I know that this has been discussed somewhere else but would like to dedicate a thread for this rather worrying problem.
I'm shooting with the EX1 with the 1080 50i format. The picture, needless to say is incredible (when seen via component out from camera directly to a LCD panel). However when I downconvert via pc to a SD DVD, the loss of quality is severe - the final SD DVD is worse than the DVD's produced from footage shot on a 4:3 SD Sony DSR-300.
I'm at the moment using PPro CS3 bundled with Matrox Axio LE which has been lent to me. I'm also interested in FCP with an octa-core Mac. I had been given a worflow to try and avoid this loss of quality but it's not enough. I want to produce same quality SD DVD's like I used to produce.
Am I asking too much? I remember when I had switched on to DVCAM 10 years ago, the edited material downconverted to VHS was much better than when I used to shoot directly with S-VHS cameras. It seems that this does not hold for the HD - SD conversion.
What is everyone doing? Are you losing quality? Have you found out a solution? The problem, in my opinion is so great, that I'm tempted to switch again to shooting with the DSR-300. I cannot give my clients such SD work. Can anyone help me out of this dilemma pls?
I'm shooting with the EX1 with the 1080 50i format. The picture, needless to say is incredible (when seen via component out from camera directly to a LCD panel). However when I downconvert via pc to a SD DVD, the loss of quality is severe - the final SD DVD is worse than the DVD's produced from footage shot on a 4:3 SD Sony DSR-300.
I'm at the moment using PPro CS3 bundled with Matrox Axio LE which has been lent to me. I'm also interested in FCP with an octa-core Mac. I had been given a worflow to try and avoid this loss of quality but it's not enough. I want to produce same quality SD DVD's like I used to produce.
Am I asking too much? I remember when I had switched on to DVCAM 10 years ago, the edited material downconverted to VHS was much better than when I used to shoot directly with S-VHS cameras. It seems that this does not hold for the HD - SD conversion.
What is everyone doing? Are you losing quality? Have you found out a solution? The problem, in my opinion is so great, that I'm tempted to switch again to shooting with the DSR-300. I cannot give my clients such SD work. Can anyone help me out of this dilemma pls?