HDV (progressive) to SD help !

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africanmarty

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hv20 HDVp to SD, How should i do this, wich way is better ?

Capture the HDVp material as HDVp from the camera (real itme), edit the HVDp video and then render to SD ( exporting as a progressive file).

CAM -> capture as HVDp -> edit HDVp -> export/render to SDp

Capture the HDVp material as SD progressive from the camera (real time), edit and render as normal SD progressive.

CAM -> capture as SDp -> edit SDp -> export/render to SDp

i guess the second method would be quicker to render ect but would i look as good or as same as the top method ?

thanks.

if these are incorrect how do you guys to it ?

PS: i'm working with PAL 25p and using premier pro 2.0


- thanks Marty
 
Hi Marty,
I'm not trying to come across a jerk but why don't you try a test of both methods yourself and report the results that you get. I can tell you that PPro 2.0 does not do well at taking a HDV timeline and directly exporting out a SD mpeg2 file using the Adobe Media Encoder. The result is soft. I've done some tests with frameserving a HDV timeline to both Tmpgenc and Mainconcept S/A MPEG2 encoder and got much better results from both.
-Dan
 
I would edit in HD, then open that HD timeline in a new SD timeline and encode to mpeg-2 from there. As Teledan said, encoding to SD directly from the HD timeline will not give you good results. But scaling down your HD footage in the SD timeline will give you the best quality down conversion that Premiere can offer. I actually frame serve and export using Sony Vegas. I'm not sure of any other settings that relate to being PAL footage.
-Kevin
 
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