Paul Wags
August 2nd, 2005, 08:49 AM
Hi all.
I have been messing around with Cineform and Premiere Pro. With land shots some say zooming in still gives still nice quality. Well after applying that to my underwater footage, I have to say even the slightest zoom in when editing in HDV brings the quality down. You can really see it. Brings the particles out more.
Other things I have found when using it.
Cineforms colour correction works fantastic on underwater material.
The med encoded footage looks stunning, however its is even better using the max quality.
On a 3 GIG system, sending the material to a 250 gig sata drive, 30 mins takes about 40 to finish encoding to the AVI file. I can live with that for real time editing.
Normal DVD's made from HDV material is better than down converting and editing in DV then to a normal DVD.
Not a single drop out so far.
It seems to still have a couple bugs though, but it is the best way to edit HDV without having to buy some huge $$$$$ setup.
I have twin 17 inch LG Flatrons (8ms) and the footage on the 1280/ 1024 screen its stunning.
Go here for some big wmv underwater clips.
http://www.ningalooreefteach.com/FX1.htm
Sorry Mac users, I have tried making nice quicktime files, even H.264 but there is no way I can get the files the same quality and size as Windows Media 9 can.
Paul Wags
I have been messing around with Cineform and Premiere Pro. With land shots some say zooming in still gives still nice quality. Well after applying that to my underwater footage, I have to say even the slightest zoom in when editing in HDV brings the quality down. You can really see it. Brings the particles out more.
Other things I have found when using it.
Cineforms colour correction works fantastic on underwater material.
The med encoded footage looks stunning, however its is even better using the max quality.
On a 3 GIG system, sending the material to a 250 gig sata drive, 30 mins takes about 40 to finish encoding to the AVI file. I can live with that for real time editing.
Normal DVD's made from HDV material is better than down converting and editing in DV then to a normal DVD.
Not a single drop out so far.
It seems to still have a couple bugs though, but it is the best way to edit HDV without having to buy some huge $$$$$ setup.
I have twin 17 inch LG Flatrons (8ms) and the footage on the 1280/ 1024 screen its stunning.
Go here for some big wmv underwater clips.
http://www.ningalooreefteach.com/FX1.htm
Sorry Mac users, I have tried making nice quicktime files, even H.264 but there is no way I can get the files the same quality and size as Windows Media 9 can.
Paul Wags