HDV project to miniDV
by Manuela Corbari
on
Jun 26, 2009 at 7:30:55 pm
Hi guys,
I need to make a miniDV tape of a documentary playing out from a FCP HDV project. I know it's going to loose so much in definition but the festival it is for doesn't have a HDV deck to project from, so it's going to be miniDV
My sequence settings are HD(1440x1080) 16:9
Most of the footage was shot HD 1440x1080, upper (odd) field, but there are a few clips dv pal
I tried exporting a quicktime with dv-pal compression, re-import into a new dv pal seuence and then playing out but every camera movement (especially pans) looks jittery
I also tried copying the HDV sequence into a new DV pal sequence and then rendering. Once I play out the camera movement seemed ok this time, but all the clips had been zoomed in
Re: HDV project to miniDV by Kai Cheong on Jun 28, 2009 at 9:28:10 am
Hi Manuela,
To down-rez HDV to DV, my personal experience would be to:
1) Export your sequence from FCP using 'current settings' [ie. as HDV and not to do your DV conversion yet]
2) Send the exported QT movie to Compressor and encode using a standard Anamorphic DV PAL preset [should be under the 'Advanced' formats]
3) Bring the encoded movie back into FCP and drop it on an Anamorphic DV PAL sequence.
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Re: HDV project to miniDV by Kai Cheong on Jul 7, 2009 at 2:23:30 pm
Hi Jerry,
The 'current settings' QT doesn't have to be self-contained - though I do that because I always keep a highest quality copy of the finished edit in QT format for archival.
From my experience, it's faster to compress from an exported QT. Besides, it frees up my FCP while Compressor does its work.
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Visit us @ http://www.intuitivefilms.com --
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