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Posted by Spex on 05/26/07 17:52
leekazimir@gmail.com wrote:
>> Ah, I thought it was betacam not digibeta having just re-read the
>> earlier messages. Yes Mike your are right stay away from DV/DVCAM but
>> DV50 would certainly be okay.
>
> I don't know anything about DV50. Is that a file type that I could
> get something converted to? Or would I actually convert to DV50
> tapes?
>
> When you talk about Apple's ProRes would "make the task a breeze", are
> you talking about the NTSC conversion as well, or just capturing into
> DV50 files?
>
> By the way, how steep a drop would the quality be from Digibeta to
> DVD? I realize a lot, but reason I'm asking is there's an off chance
> I may be able to get this transfer done at no cost -- (pulling in a
> favor from someone overseas).
>
> Lee
>
Lee
DV50 is also known as DVCPro.
If you are only going to use 5 mins then why are you going to capture 8
hours of footage? If you need to view the tapes get some DV copies of
them done. They will be cheaply done by most facilities. Use the DV
tapes in your edit when you have locked your edit down then go back and
get the scenes you need captured in either uncompressed or other
suitable high quality codec (to be determined by your delivery format).
You say you shot in NTSC HDV. NTSC HDV does not exist. So what did you
actually shoot? 720P 24/30/60 or 1080i60 etc? If you've shot 24P HDV
then I wouldn't bother converting PAL to NTSC.
What will be your delivery format?
What are you editing on? If FCP I might be able to help more than if
you use another NLE. But I am sure someone can help if you are using
Avid/Prem/Vegas et al.
Don't even consider DVD.
Apple ProRes is just a very high quality codec that will serve you
better than uncompressed, i.e. small file sizes, if you or the facility
are able to capture to it and you are using FCP6.
FCP6's open timeline can cope with mixing of HD, SD and with all
different frame rates. So FCP6 would make your project a breeze.
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