Re: HDV Workflow With A Lot Of Rendering.

Alec, HDV was designed primarily as an acquisition (shooting) format. The GOP system is not conducive to editing and certainly not anything as complicated as you are attempting. I convert my HDV material to uncompressed HD throught the Convergent Design box HD-Connect and finish the production in that format. The problem arises with mastering if you want an HD tape master. I have to rent an HDCAM deck (very expensive) or I downscale for a DVCAM master. DVD's can be encoded direct from the HD timeline but of course since we can't play Blu-Ray discs at present I let BitVice do a downscale whilst encoding.

Michael Slowe