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February 11th, 2006, 08:26 AM | #1 |
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question about shooting HDV on the Z1 for SD broadcast
ey guys, i'm a bit of a newb when it comes to HDV so please bear with me on this one...
I'm shooting a music video with the Z1 in a couple of weeks. The video is going to be shown on SD television, and they master has to be delivered on a mini-DV tape. At what point should should I downconvert to SD? One problem I have is that I'm running an older powerbook G4 for editing (1ghz/768 MB RAM/FCP 4.5 HD) so I reckon my ability to natively edit HDV footage on my setup is nil. I'm confused as to whethere I should: 1. Shoot everything DV and proceed from there? 2. Shoot HDV and then just capture the material into final cut as DV? If anyone had a tip or two I would appreciate it. I guess the bottom line is if the material is going to end up as SD am I just making things more difficult for myself by shooting HDV? Or will I notice more quality if I shoot at HDV and then capture as regular DV? Or is there a better way to do this? Sorry to the mods if this is in the wrong section. |
February 11th, 2006, 08:44 AM | #2 |
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My 2 cents:
Shoot HDV, edit HDV and do your post-fx in a 8 or 10 bit timeline. Then convert everything down to a DV timeline to put on tape. You will be stunned about the quality you will get this way. I'm recommending you to go the HDV/Uncompressed way because then you will be the nicest to your material in terms of effects, colour grading etc. I've used to edit HDV on a 1.33 ghz Powerbook and it works fine, just render once in a while to a DVD or something if you wanna view your results on a TV. You do have to update FCP to 5.0 for proper editing in HDV though. |
February 11th, 2006, 08:56 AM | #3 |
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Oh, and just to complete, If you do it like this, you always have a nice uncompressed master incase a broadcaster is asking you one..
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February 11th, 2006, 08:58 AM | #4 |
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i see...
that's interesting that you were able to edit HDV on your setup. people have told me i'm dreaming for thinking I can do the job on my ageing lappy;). How much RAM did you have?
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February 11th, 2006, 09:11 AM | #5 |
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Just 768 of RAM. It was a sort of Wild wild west edit adventure.. because of circumstances I had to capture al my HDV material on location (20 hours+ of material) with this laptop and a Lacie HD via USB2 (!!). But it worked out perfectly!
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February 11th, 2006, 09:35 AM | #6 |
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that sounds like a crazy time :)
thanks for the tips man. |
February 13th, 2006, 02:04 PM | #7 | |
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I hope I'm not hi-jackin' this thread but here's how I dealt with low computing power and editing HDV footage. Behold, an excerpt from my um.. "journal":
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Now you can feed it DVI from from most newer computers. Or, feed it analog component from a Kona or AJA board. While the option of uncompressed is a good one -- you will need to invest a lot of money in a RAID. The cheapest solution is edit native HDV.
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