Re: HDV/DV/AE Animation in FCP workflow advice by Jaap Verdenius on Oct 2, 2008 at 8:47:54 pm
Hi Eduardo,
For the HDV ingest I'd use the HDV-Apple ProRes HQ Capture Setting - It will convert your HDV to ProRes after capture and you will avoid GOP issues. You can do it with Firewire.
If you work with AE on a Mac you can render to a ProRes Quicktime.
You can drop all that into a ProRes timeline.
Of course DV and HDV have different resolutions - you have to make a choice which resolution will be the base for your timeline (and to which resolution you will render your AE work).
Re: HDV/DV/AE Animation in FCP workflow advice by Eduardo Frade Miranda on Oct 2, 2008 at 9:16:00 pm
Wow, that was fast, thanks a lot Jaap, that was very helpfull.
Everything should be HDV like resolution, so I wonder if the DV footage will look weird. Is there any special/better way of up convert the DV into the ProRes HQ timeline without a Aja or BM interface, in your experience?
Re: HDV/DV/AE Animation in FCP workflow advice by Jaap Verdenius on Oct 3, 2008 at 7:20:14 am
I don't think that an Aja or BM interface will give you better results than upscaling in FCP itself - I would capture through Firewire and drop it into the HD ProRes timeline (if you go to User Preferences, tab Editing, in the lower right corner you can select "Always scale clips to sequence size" and FCP will do this automatically). If you are not doing any chroma keying with the DV stuff then this is probably the easiest way to go.
An Aja/BM interface however will give you the possibility to capture into a ProRes codec and that will avoid some rendering later on.
So I think it is more of matter if you have the money for an Aja/BM, or the time to do it without.
