Peter Ferling
May 17th, 2005, 06:00 PM
I currently shoot DV25 for talking heads and presentations, and capture uncompressed SD via a video toaster for keying and VFX shots. Much of my material winds up on large wide-screen plasma monitors for booth media, and/or Projection screens for training rooms full of people.
I now wish to move up to HD, however, I'm not sold on the HDV format for my post work. We now have new booth builds that sport 42" HD LCD Monitors, so artifacts, if they exist, may show up and are my concern.
It seems to me that I can shoot the straight video using DVCPRO HD, and capture uncompressed HD for the post, and still continue to edit in PPro and post in AE.
My questions:
1. Do I risk a quality hit capturing via HD-SDI, and back again to DVCPRO tape?
2. Would I expect just as good or better quality staying in the cineform 10bit compressed instead of uncompressed?
3. Would prospect be sufficient for effects work?
4. Would DVCPRO HD give me the quality I need to begin with?
I'm specking a workstation, and would like some advice. Thanks in advance.
Pete
I now wish to move up to HD, however, I'm not sold on the HDV format for my post work. We now have new booth builds that sport 42" HD LCD Monitors, so artifacts, if they exist, may show up and are my concern.
It seems to me that I can shoot the straight video using DVCPRO HD, and capture uncompressed HD for the post, and still continue to edit in PPro and post in AE.
My questions:
1. Do I risk a quality hit capturing via HD-SDI, and back again to DVCPRO tape?
2. Would I expect just as good or better quality staying in the cineform 10bit compressed instead of uncompressed?
3. Would prospect be sufficient for effects work?
4. Would DVCPRO HD give me the quality I need to begin with?
I'm specking a workstation, and would like some advice. Thanks in advance.
Pete