HD to SD rendering is killing me!!!

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pulpwoody

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I have an EX1 and love it. However, as you all know, it only shoots HD, and since almost none of my clients are wanting hd, it all has to get rendered out sd, and that is a time consuming pain in my ass.

What's the best way to deal with this?
 
Mind you, I shoot on the HVX200, but I LOVE Edius. I shoot almost everything at 720p 24 or 30 and deliver plenty of video to clients in 480 on tape or DVD. It's almost transparent making conversions and if I have mixed sources I don't have to convert them first.
 
You don't have to convert them first in Vegas either. Not sure why this is such a pain. I make SD, HD, and Web versions from the exact same timeline. No muss, no fuss in Vegas.
 
That's great to hear, but I don't have Vegas, or Edius. Any help with FCP, or is that just par for the course?
 
shoot XDCAM, edit XDCAM, export XDCAM, then dump it into compressor and let it export over night, or while you work on the next one.
 
It's a breeze rendering out to any format in Premiere Pro. I've never seen an issue with it. In fact, it seems to be easier to work with than DV on my machine, for some reason. What takes time is using any time-interpolating effects, like some of the slow motion pixel motion search effects, or any effects that use a window of look-behind/look-ahead frames to interpolate a particular frame. But a straight render with color grading is pretty speedy. Never found that to be a problem at all.
 
what? i export sd versions of stuff all the time. it goes pretty quick for me. what flavor of sd? i do dv50 usually.

i export my sequence as xdcam ex and convert in compressor usually but even straght out of fcp isn't bad...
 
Maybe I'm not doing it the best way...
I usually shoot in 1080 HQ. I'm exporting 702X480, mostly using compressor, but it takes a long damn time. I've never tried dv50.

I have to bust it down to SD to get it onto dvd for everyone to watch.
 
if you're just trying to compress for dvd, just take the exported HD version into compressor and use the "dvd best quality" preset. looks killer and doesn't take that long. keep in mind that transcoding to mpeg2 for dvd has always taken a while no matter what the source footage.
 
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