EX1 to DV tape

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BrenMyster

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A music video I shot on my EX1 has been selected for an international film festival and they require the video on DV tape.

Whats the best way of doing this? The video was shot on 1080 24p

Cheers

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I work in FCP, and this is how I do it. You may have to substitute names of things I refer to if you are on another platform.

• Make a new NTSC sequence.

• Drop the HD sequence you edited your music video in - into the NTSC sequence. It looks like your standard, letterboxed image within a 4:3, 720x480 frame.

• Render.

• From there you just print to tape from the NTSC sequence as you would any SD project.
 
As Chadfish suggested, it depends a lot on several details you didn't mention. Such as what computer (Mac? PC?) you are using? What editing application? Do you already have this music video edited and are just asking about rendering? Was it edited in 1080 24p? Was it framed for SD (4:3)? Are you asking about doing "pan-n-scan" for conversion to SD? Or letterbox to preserve the HD frame? Does the festival want NTSC or PAL? What equipment do you have available to record the tape?
 
Yes if your project is 24fps, I'm not sureit will not work on DV tape without being changed to NTSC standards. In my experience film festivals are based on film, and most people who fancy themselves "film" people would be working n 24p, and the films are played by a DVD projector. DVDs do 24P, but I'm not sure about tape. Maybe ask them if they would take a DVD.

You need more info from the festival people about what formats they can play.
 
"DV Tape" can be used for recording DV, DVCAM, HDV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO HD (DVCPRO variants use what are known as DVCPRO tapes, but these are simply medium-sized cassettes in DV cassette lineup; MiniDV are small DV cassettes). What scanning standard? What aspect rate? Seriously, if someone asked me to "bring it on DV tape" I would not know what to do.
 
I don't think Bren wants to participate in his thread. He hasn't offered any further info - so I'm done.
 
hey,

been outta town for a few days, away from my mac.

Cheers for the replies. I will be using FCP, The problem is that i only have access to a Z1 or V1 that are PAL standard so my 24p will screw things up a bit. dam, this is a pain, I have already submitted a DVD to the festival but I guess that was just for the application process.
 
BrenMyster said:
only have access to a Z1 or V1 that are PAL standard so my 24p will screw things up a bit.
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IIRC, Z1 flips easily between NTSC and PAL, so 24p goes to NTSC timeline, 25P goes to PAL timeline.

BrenMyster said:
dam, this is a pain, I have already submitted a DVD to the festival but I guess that was just for the application process.
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I am making an educated guess (having looked at a few threads you started) that you're UK based, but shot your video 24p instead of 25p. It's fairly easy to get a 24p NTSC DVD to play on a PAL DVD player, well nigh impossible to play a PAL DVD on an NTSC DVD player. But that's not your problem. I mention it for the sake of completeness.

You will probably need to use Compressor rather than Final Cut Pro.

You need to transcode your video and audio separately.

You need to make the 24fps video play at 25fps (frame controls, at the bottom) whilst encoding to DV.

You need to speed up the audio by a little bit, whilst (in this case - a music video) keeping the pitch the same.

For more help: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=24fps+to+25fps

I believe the desired audio duration is 96% of the 24fps material played at 25fps (e.g. faster - and 104% the other way). The pitch shift is perceptable, and enough to annoy the hell out of a vocal proportion of your proposed audience, so I would recommend finding a specialist or audio geek to do it for you. I've tried doing it myself (but the other way, 720p to NTSC@24p) and whilst the pictures look great, I'm yet to find a DIY audio solution that does an acceptable job.
 
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