mixing HVX and super16

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watson

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hey there, i just finished shooting a short film. 75 perent of it was shoot on the HVX and the rest was shot on super16mm. I'm interested in transfering the super16 to HD so that i can have a final HD version for festivals. Has anyone on here done this before? what HD format did you get the super16 transfered? can anyone suggest a lab in the NYC to contact. I'm located in philly, and there is only one lab here that can go to HD. Any help would be great. thanks.

Andrew Watson
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Telecine to HDCAM, capture through an HDCAM deck (like a j-3) into final cut using the DVCPRO-HD codec..

OR

Telecine to HDCAM-SR, capture through a much more expensive deck as uncompressed HD, then transcode the uncompressed to DVCPRO-HD 720p.

Or

Telecine direct to disk as uncompressed, then transcode the same as above.


Okay, as far as price is concerned, the best option would depend on if you have access to a deck of some sort. In my experience it's always best to use the post chain that allows you FREE access to a deck.

If you have access to an hdcam deck, or an hdcam-sr deck then get a good quality spirt 2k telecine to one of those formats then capture into your mac using the deck you have access to.


If you do not have access to a deck, getting an uncompressed direct to disk telecine might be the best way to go, but not all houses do this.

So Deans rec. direct to disk, or get a quote on the telecine house doing an hdcam, or hdcam-sr transfer and capturing the tape if you do no have access to the deck.

try duart in NYC
try bono labs (they are a direct to disk place)
www.mipost.com
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Why not just telecine straight to DVCPRO HD in what ever format you shot with the HVX?
 
okay so i need some more help here.

i talked to one of the labs in philly that does the transfer and we kinda figured out a workflow. i have to transfer to tape (probably DVCPRO HD), and then they are going to caputre it to a harddrive for me. (i dont have access to a deck).

Here is my new question:

the footage i shot so far on the HVX, i shot at 720pn and it says the size is (960 by 720). I'm editing it in the "easy set up" DVCPRO HD 720p24 setting. So the timeline settings are 720 by 960.

when i told them i needed the footage to flow into a 23.98 720 by 960 timeline, they were confused and ask if the footage i had was 4:3. they said for 16:9 the footage should be 720 by 1280.

what am i missing here? now i'm hella confused? do i have the wrong time line options? did i not shoot with the right HVX setting? anyone help me out?
 
the DVCPro HD 720P video codec is 960x720 technically -- and the pixels are not square, they have an aspect ratio of 1.33. So it's actually designed to be viewed as 1280x720.

Kyle
 
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