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Posted by Pat Horridge on 07/25/06 11:29
"Drew" <drorworld@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1153246207.497107.249730@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm getting ready to edit a low-budget feature film; principal
> photography starts soon, and it seems like figuring out a sturdy HD100
> workflow is the biggest mess I've ever seen.
>
> 1. We're talking 720/24p -- with 24p HD within our reach, both me and
> the DP don't want to shoot for less. On the other hand, everyone wanted
> the P2 but it's just out of our budget.
> We (originally) planned to use a new dual-core laptop PC that we have.
> I'm experienced with Avid and Premiere.
>
> 2. I'd rather have accurate, fast offline of recompressed SD DV than
> resource-intensive HDV.
>
> 3. Am I being old-fashioned, insisting on maintaining timecode
> throughout the workflow? I guess we can do something like buy an extra
> firewire drive, capture the HDV there and make that our "master," but
> I'm not feeling good about it.
>
> 4. I wouldn't mind using FCP if it was the right tool for the job, but
> without TC in Lumiere, the whole option becomes irrelevant, doesn't it?
>
> 5. Has anyone ever tried using HDVxDV with Avid? In theory it should
> work, including TC, but I haven't found any evidence.
>
> Premiere Pro / AspectHD seems like the best solution, then, although
> I've never (or barely) heard of any feature film cut on it. But I
> opened a new thread for that.
>
> Your thoughts and opinions are appreciated.
We regularly take HDV source material. Capture as DV (from M10 deck direct
from camera in DV downconvert mode).
Offline then reconform the HDV via a Miranda to make frame based HD sequence
and avoid the HDV long GOP issues.
It's a slow process conforming the HDV material as the M10 deck is just not
cut to be an edit source.
Some clips won't conform and need to be taken into a new sequence as HDV and
then transcoded to frame based media to go back to the main conform.
We either work uncompressed HD on our DS for the best results or on an Avid
Adrenaline using Avids DNxHD codec for great results. And the new Adrenaline
upgrade (now just called Media Composer) supports true uncompressed HD.
So yes it works but it's not a walk in the park. Timecodes come across from
the DV edit to the HDV conform just fine allowing for the normal DV frame
slipages.
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