Re: Best Method for DV upconvert from DV25 files

Hi Bart:

That's a good idea. The only problem though is I want their project file to be able to link to the media files for a conform cut. The reason is that they have off-lined their project on a DV25 FCP system. The project file contains all the supers, texts, dissolves and effects that they used in the production.

My plan was to take their project file, that contains no media and has been duplicated into a CinéWave project, and then just relink the media files. That way, the text and effects are being performed in an uncompressed space, with 4:2:2 color resoloution. Dumping everything to a DV sub-master seems to defeat this. However, I have seen some really poor transcoding coming from firewire captured footage that has been transcoded on a CinéWave FCP timeline.

I think the only way I can use your method is if the client has the video tracks seperated from the Title and superimposition tracks. At least the titles will be cleaner and I can import the sub-master into the project as an additional layer.

Too bad the software transcode looks worse than losing a generation of video by going in analog.

Thank you for the advice,

Joey

Joey Schwartz
Toronto, Ontario, Canada