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Posted by Toby on 05/31/07 06:45
Just FYI, DVCPro is Panasonic's brand name (as you know). It comes in three
flavors, DVCPRO 25, DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD, which is 100 Mbs.
To answer the original poster: Canopus Procoder will do a very decent job on
your conversion. I use it regularly to convert NTSC to PAL Mpeg2 (originally
shot on Beta SP or DVCPro 25) for broadcast in Europe. We digitize the
material onto Avid, cut the piece, export as raw DV, convert to Mpeg2 to
reduce file size for FTP transfer, then transcode to PAL. Resolution loss is
minmal and the motion interoplation is pretty good too. Not as good as a
high-end Snell & Wilcox, but pretty good. Definitely better than low-end
hardware standards conversion. But it will take some time...
Toby
"Spex" <No.spam@ta.com> wrote in message
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> 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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