Steve Rosen
May 21st, 2006, 01:13 PM
I've posted here many times in reference to a documentary, IN A NEW COUNTRY, that I've been shooting with the H1 (1080i). I've been editing on FCP on a G5 Quad with a Black Magic card and am very happy with the performance and the ability to view my edit on an HD monitor (really an off the shelf Panasonic HD TV purchased from Circuit City). I use a seperate Sony CRT for color correction. The film is nearly completed.
We have just received a post-production grant from WOMEN IN FILM (my partner and co-director is a woman) to prepare the completed 30 minute documentary for national broadcast on PBS (no presenting station yet, that's the next step). We've had three films on the prime-time schedule and two on regional in the last 4 years, so I'm very familiar with the rigors of broadcast standards.
What I'm not familiar with, since it is new to most of us, is prepping something shot and edited on HDV - to provide a DigiBeta master and an HD master. Although I've been making films for many years, I am not as sophisticated technically (relative to video in general and HD in particular) as many here seem to be.
My plan is to export the finished edit @ 0 ire with descrete dialog, FX and music tracks to an external firewire drive, rather than make an HDV tape master, and take that drive to the post house in SF for mastering - create the HD master and then an NTSC letter-box DigiBeta clone from that.
Does this seem like the best plan for this process in order to insure the best image? I will, of course, ask the post house as well, but would appreciate an opinion from you folks first.
We have just received a post-production grant from WOMEN IN FILM (my partner and co-director is a woman) to prepare the completed 30 minute documentary for national broadcast on PBS (no presenting station yet, that's the next step). We've had three films on the prime-time schedule and two on regional in the last 4 years, so I'm very familiar with the rigors of broadcast standards.
What I'm not familiar with, since it is new to most of us, is prepping something shot and edited on HDV - to provide a DigiBeta master and an HD master. Although I've been making films for many years, I am not as sophisticated technically (relative to video in general and HD in particular) as many here seem to be.
My plan is to export the finished edit @ 0 ire with descrete dialog, FX and music tracks to an external firewire drive, rather than make an HDV tape master, and take that drive to the post house in SF for mastering - create the HD master and then an NTSC letter-box DigiBeta clone from that.
Does this seem like the best plan for this process in order to insure the best image? I will, of course, ask the post house as well, but would appreciate an opinion from you folks first.