Importing HDV and DV

nantnee

nantnee

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I have about 6 hours of Canon A1 HDV and DV footage. I want to combine the footage together from my travels. And I want to incorporate both formats into a single video.

So question s

1: I shot at various frame rates (60i, 30f, 24f) Some HDV, some DV. What would be the best way to edit these together.

2: Actually Capturing HDV from a Canon A1 on CS3. I d/led HDVSplit, but, when played back looked terrible. I d/led the patch from Adobe, and now looking at the patch, it says 25f. So now im confused.

I dont want to use Cineform.

Ive read some threads, but, im still confused on a way that WORKS.

What do I need other then a new NLE or a program worth 2weeks of labor?
 
HDVsplit captures the footage as it's shot. It's a digital copy, I've never had any issue with the quality of capture.

If you have CS3, you don't need any patch from Adobe. The current version of Premiere has 24p HDV and 30p HDV presets included.

Mixing all those frame rates and formats is going to be tricky to edit. You will probably not want to scale up your SD footage to HD. So that would leave you with editing everything in SD, and scaling down the HD footage to match. I would think your best bet would be to let the camera down convert all your HD to SD, and edit it all in a 29.97 timeline.

When shooting HD with this camera, I stick to the same frame rate for each project. When shooting SD, it doesn't matter. Personally, I've never even put my camera into SD mode. I can always downconvert to SD, but I can't upconvert SD to HD. Just my two cents.

-Kevin
 
So with HDVsplit, you are capturing HDV? When i did a play back it looked really grainy.

And with the current version of CS3, I dont see the 24pHDV. It says 25.. So I am a little confused on where i need to go.
 
Yes, with HDVsplit I capture HDV. Premiere's HD capture doesn't have scene detect. So I've been using HDVsplit and have been very pleased with it. The latest Premiere update (3.2) has all the HDV presets.
 
I would personally edit in 1920x1080i 29.97 and let Premiere do all of the pulldown and scaling for me. You should be able to edit in real time with a beefy enough system, and just render at the end.

If your system isn't beefy, you can always take the longer approach by making eveything conformed down to SD resolution (You can do this with premiere manually) and edit those offline clips. Once you're ready to export in HD, just offline all your clips and online with the high resolution originals. Make sure you name each clip exactly the same to avoid confusion.



The first route is much easier...but it only works if you have a beefy enough comptuer (dual core, 2gb min)
 
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