HDV and FCP editing advise.


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HDV and FCP editing advise.
by Hamilton Robinson on Oct 31, 2009 at 12:18:59 am

Hi Everyone.

I have shot some footage in HDV but it is a minority component of material compared to the still images in the project.

When I render photoshop logos, images in a HDV FCP sequence it doesn't look that good due interlacing issues and the HDV codec.

Can I drop the HDV footage into a progressive HD FCP sequence and treat it as a progressive format....render and convert as needed and work with a nice clean images. Any issues with that?

Any tricks on making HDV footage look better when working with still images.

The next camera I buy will be professional progressive format such as XDCAM.

I would appreciate other peoples advise on how they work with HDV footage and cross convert it as a codec for best results for clean crisp images in a combined HDV and still image project.

When is the best time to transcode the HDV footage?

Should I edit in HDV then transcode to a new Prores progressive codec sequence when I am finished or at the beginning if effects and filters have to be applied to the footage?

Any tips much appreciated.

Hamilton.

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Re: HDV and FCP editing advise.
by Harry Pallenberg on Nov 1, 2009 at 4:13:31 pm

Probably best to do it while you capture - ie from tape in HDV camera to ProRes as you capture. There are HDMI capture cards that are cheap (Blackmagic) - or there are firewire ways to do it... here is a tutorial
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php

Its easier (on the computer / render - harder on drive space - but drive are cheap) to edit ProRes than HDV.

Thanks,
Harry

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Re: HDV and FCP editing advise.
by Hamilton Robinson on Nov 1, 2009 at 8:49:52 pm

Thanks for the advise.

I have already captured the HDV footage.

Is the there an effective way to transcode to pro res for editing and working with still images?

I am wondering if putting the HDV in a progressive pro res sequence will make it easier to work with images and reduce the artifacts of interlacing in HDV?

Cheers

Hamilton

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