Footage conversion problems on Mac

[TheGuitarzan]

Thanks for the info... but at 720, aren't you giving up substantial resolution? When I used toast to convert to DVCPRO HD, the clips came in at 960x720. But my camera shoots up to 1920x1080.

This seems like a lot of resolution to give up. Shouldn't such a difference be noticeable?

I see a lot of discussion about image quality and compression affects on different CODECS, but doesn't all of that pale in comparison to a much higher resolution, like 1920x1080?

(Thanks for any info. I am kinda frustrated having to learn so much just to start using my HMC150.)

 

[matt s.]

I feel AIC gives better results over DVCPORHD as it lets you stay in 1920X1080 or 1280X720 resolution.

 

[David Saraceno]

Thanks for the info... but at 720, aren't you giving up substantial resolution? When I used toast to convert to DVCPRO HD, the clips came in at 960x720. But my camera shoots up to 1920x1080.

That's because you failed to set your output parameters correctly in Toast.

 

[ullanta]

Thanks for the info... but at 720, aren't you giving up substantial resolution? When I used toast to convert to DVCPRO HD, the clips came in at 960x720. But my camera shoots up to 1920x1080.

DVCProHD has 2 possible resolutions: 960x720 and 1280x1080 - it's not a full raster format. However, common wisdom says that the actual resolution of the HMC (and all the Panny prosumer cams) is somewht more than 960x720, somewhat less than 1280x1080... so 1280x1080 likely doesn't cot you much resolution.