Mixing HVX and DVX footage??

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hello,
I recently shot a "making of the video" for a band using the HVX. the footage is 960x720 23.98 and looks amazing! We are also incorporating some older footage shot with the DVX 24p.

the final piece will be for broadcast and I am just a little unclear about the best way to mix the formats.

Do I down convert the HVX footage to SD?? and what is the best way?

thanks!
 
Last weekend we shot a live band using the HVX200 in 720pn using P2 cards on the Kessler Crane and a DVX100a handheld in 24pa using tape.

I ended up mixing the 2 formats in Final Cut by exporting the DVX24pa footage to 720p HD using Compressor and then adding that export to my 720p HD Sequence.

Final Cut let's you drop in the DVX footage directly into the 720p HD Sequence and will convert for you, but I am a stickler for best quality and chose to use compressor and tweak the export.

It's fairly non-offensive to cut between the HD and SD footage. Mostly I am just partially fading in the SD because it a 2 camera shoot so the shots are timed just from different angles.

I did have to color correct a little for the cameras to match.
 
thanks....i am exporting a test in compressor now.

can you help clear something up - is 720p the same thing as my footage that is 960x720? my HD sequence timeline is HD (960 x 720) 16:9. the quicktime video setting is: Compressor - DVXPRO HD 720p60.
this is all a new game to me and i just want to make sure i have the least work arounds later on and keep the footage looking good.

also - my final delivery will be SD. what is the best way to do this?
 
yeah - Compressor flip to the format you want to use for final deliverable. For best quality, use Advanced Format Conversion stuff, and convert to uncompressed (convert the DV to uncompressed as well, or better yet capture over SDI, if not use Nattress Chroma Smoothing filter). I did recently learn, however, that Compressor clips all brightness values over 100 IRE - eeek! So some clipping is introduced. Dunno what to do about it.
 
DVCPro HD 720P24 is what I used to export to, but that's the mode I was shooting on the HVX and what I have my Final Cut sequence setup for.

Export to the same as what you were shooting on the HVX. If you were shooting in 720P60 with the HVX then export your DVX footage to that.

When you drop the footage into the HVX sequence no render will be necessary.

Do you have to render when you drop your HVX footage into your Sequence? If so, create a sequence that matches your HVX footage and when you drop in the HVX footage and the exported DVX footage, no render should be necessary.
 
I'm new but very intrested in this since I own a HVX200 and a DVX 100B. Let me get this straight, Irun my DVX footage hrough compressor and output it as the same as my setting on the HVX which are 720/60P?

So when I am through with compressor the footage will be same size as HVX raw footage? Thanks in advance...Jim
 
Pro Swooping Tour said:
I'm new but very intrested in this since I own a HVX200 and a DVX 100B. Let me get this straight, Irun my DVX footage hrough compressor and output it as the same as my setting on the HVX which are 720/60P?

So when I am through with compressor the footage will be same size as HVX raw footage? Thanks in advance...Jim
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That's the work flow I am using. I have not compared file sizes, im sure if I looked it would be the same size as the HD file.
FYI: HVX footage is not raw. its compressed.

If your concerned with that, you could also do the reverse and export the HD footage to same format as the DVX footage and drop the converted HD footage into the SD Sequence, but that leaves less headroom for color correction.

On a previous film project, I received footage in HD 10bit uncompressed which is fairly large and processor intensive to play. I ended up creating a export version in SD to edit and after the edit changed the sequence to match the 10bit uncompressed and replaced the SD version with the HD 10bit uncompressed and then did my color correction and final export from the 10bit uncompressed sequence.
 
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The key to getting it close is making sure the DVX is progressive. You can re-size it in FCP, convert it with compressor or use InstantHD. If you are in a 16:9 project I would avoid really wide shots with the DVX as it will get pretty soft...



ash =o)
 
AshG said:
The key to getting it close is making sure the DVX is progressive. You can re-size it in FCP, convert it with compressor or use InstantHD. If you are in a 16:9 project I would avoid really wide shots with the DVX as it will get pretty soft
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True... and I was using the anamorphic lens on the dvx... the squeeze option would be the next best choice
Also the DVX shots I used were all handheld closeup for inserts to the wide and medium wide shots from the HVX.
 
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