Joe Lawry
December 26th, 2006, 03:37 PM
Okey, so this is a total newbie post but after a few search's around the place i couldn't really find any posts that explained what i wanted.
So i've owned a sony Z1 for a few months now, mainly shooting DVCAM as that's the format most of my clients want. I've also shot some HDV for a couple companies who then go away and do their thing with it.
Previously i've been cutting all my SD on FCP on my IMAC 2Ghz 2 gigs pre intel. Not the fastest machine out there but does the job for SD. Anyway, have recently upgraded to MC software as over this year i've become a total avid editor and dont even want to think about having to go back to FCP.
Okey background over. Never really working with HDV in Avid im still unsure on the best way to down convert out of it. I've exported straight out as dv pal (shooting 50i here) but it looks terrible, could just be me comparing it to HDV however.
After some more fiddling i changed the project type to 25i and then transcoded the whole project to dv420. Exported that and it looks so much better than the previous exports. Yay for I frames.
Although it came out as stretched 4:3 (all good can easily be delt with in compressor and dvd studio pro) Im guessing this is the standard way of downconverting out of MC?
Looks like i've probably answered my own question but if someone could just let me know im going in the right direction that'd be awesome.
Cheers and sorry for the long post.
Joe
So i've owned a sony Z1 for a few months now, mainly shooting DVCAM as that's the format most of my clients want. I've also shot some HDV for a couple companies who then go away and do their thing with it.
Previously i've been cutting all my SD on FCP on my IMAC 2Ghz 2 gigs pre intel. Not the fastest machine out there but does the job for SD. Anyway, have recently upgraded to MC software as over this year i've become a total avid editor and dont even want to think about having to go back to FCP.
Okey background over. Never really working with HDV in Avid im still unsure on the best way to down convert out of it. I've exported straight out as dv pal (shooting 50i here) but it looks terrible, could just be me comparing it to HDV however.
After some more fiddling i changed the project type to 25i and then transcoded the whole project to dv420. Exported that and it looks so much better than the previous exports. Yay for I frames.
Although it came out as stretched 4:3 (all good can easily be delt with in compressor and dvd studio pro) Im guessing this is the standard way of downconverting out of MC?
Looks like i've probably answered my own question but if someone could just let me know im going in the right direction that'd be awesome.
Cheers and sorry for the long post.
Joe