different formats
by Manuela Corbari
on
Jul 22, 2008 at 4:00:26 pm
Hi guys,
I'm lost..
i've been working on a project digitizing from different formats tapes: digibeta, HDV and Minidv
The settings on Final Cut Pro I've been working on are
SEQUENCE PRESET : DV PAL ANAMORPHIC
CAPTURE PRESET: DV PAL ANAMORPHIC
Now, as the edit is done, I've been asked to produce a Digibeta playout with the pictures to be sent in for a grade
I wonder if the footage in my FCP sequence is at the highest maximum quality. If it's not, could i just un-compress the sequence in some way or should I re-digitize the tapes with different settings?
Thanks a lot
Manuela
Re: different formats by Russell Lasson on Jul 22, 2008 at 8:00:43 pm
[Manuela Corbari]"I wonder if the footage in my FCP sequence is at the highest maximum quality."
No. It isn't in the highest maximum quality. DV is good for offline editing, but isn't considered an online codec. I would suggest re-digitizing your Digibeta footage as ProRes or Uncompressed SD.
Your miniDV footage isn't going to get any better than DV, so you can just keep it how it is. Your HDV footage would probably work out best if you downconverted it to SD and captured it as ProRes. Or you could just down convert the HDV footage using Compressor or something like that.
