HDV back to NTSC Standard def advice?
by Richard Pengelly
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Feb 11, 2008 at 3:36:00 am
Hello,
I am working on a project with an actor shot on green screen using HDV. I am cutting it on Final Cut Pro. The project is to be finished in standard Def.
I tried editing the footage into a DV NTSC time line and enlarging it to the desired size. It lost allot of clarity and was interlaced. I changed the field dominance to none and it looked sharper and lost the interlacing but I think the edges are tearing and jagged.
I am not that familiar with HDV so I am not sure this is the right approach.
I am new to this production company and the director who used to edit the projects said he has done this before and it worked.
The idea of shooting it on HDV was to get a High quality image so we could move the actor around and resize to suit the graphics that he is interacting with.
Re: HDV back to NTSC Standard def advice? by Jim Tuchschmidt on Feb 11, 2008 at 5:14:04 am
I would ideally capture this footage using ProRes codec - it will be a lot easier to work with than HDV. If that is not possible, then I would edit in HDV and then render final output as QT file (using "Current Settings") and then use compressor to convert to DV NTSC. Although there are numerous solutions to this on various boards, I have found this approach to give the best results.
I don't do green screen work, but I thought this was one of the weaknesses of HDV?
Re: HDV back to NTSC Standard def advice? by Uli Plank on Feb 11, 2008 at 8:29:21 am
You have two choices here:
- If your machine can handle it go HDV native, use a good HDV capable keyer (like DVGarage) and convert the final result to SD with Compressor or MPEG Streamclip
- If not, convert from HDV to SD, but don't use DV, since you'll loose a lot of color definition. Go uncompressed, ProRes or at least DV50 for keying.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
