Panasonic SD to HD Workflow
by Thad Ciechanowski
on
May 12, 2008 at 8:27:16 pm
Got a project coming up that will include footage shot (1080i or 1080p, not sure yet) with the HDX-900 on DVCPRO tapes and secondary footage shot with the HVX-200 recorded to a firestore. My plan is to offline in SD, and then later online at another facility in HD. I'm going to downconvert the tapes to BetaSP with matching TC for the offline (I don't have an HD deck in house) but I'm not sure how to go about the stuff from the HVX-200. It'll make MXF's, but how do I go about a SD offline with HD MXF files? I feel like transcoding would be a waste of time and problematic for the online. Or is it as simple as just mixing the SD/HD footage in the timeline?
If I transcoded the HD MXF's from the HVX-200 to SD and then batch imported them in an HD project later, would that give me the results I need: offline in SD and online in HD?
Or maybe just transfer all the MXF's to tape? Anyone done this before?
Re: Panasonic SD to HD Workflow by Russell Lasson on May 14, 2008 at 7:25:43 pm
If you're using FCP, then I would suggest the following:
I know you said you wanted to edit in SD with the HDX900 footage, but I would suggest that you just rent a DVCPROHD deck and digitize those tapes over firewire. Then just edit at DVCPROHD.
Then for finishing, you just need to send the sequence to your finishing house or make a tape master and include an EDL for them. They won't have to go back to the original source tapes because what you're editing with is a data clone of the same info on the tapes.
